Kasper
Diabolical
- Joined
- May 30, 2008
- Messages
- 11,590
- MBTI Type
- ENTP
- Enneagram
- 9w8
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sx
I see self-preservation as more about protecting my energy and personal space. Money and physical safety are important, but more as necessary conditions for the first two. Attacks on my physical person are an egregious invasion of personal space. Having money allows me to live away from lesser intrusions, and to outfit my dwelling for efficient living.
Being sp-dom does not imply having no concern for others. In fact, the energy I carefully manage by keeping most of the world at a distance is often employed to help others, or in activities of mutual benefit, like my work responsibilities. I am not sure any act is truely selfless, though, for even when helping others, we are usually promoting our own principles and values.
I agree with that.
Never mind self interest or money or physical things, they change based on circumstance, the one thing that my Sp tendencies are always working to conserve is energy.
For ENTP E7s the natural way of being is to exert and expand energy outwards but for me the Sp instinct plays interference with that and always holds something back "just in case", the two reasons I'm aware of for that are remaining independent and self sufficient at all times, and the concern that I may need it for something else, what happens if I expend all I have and then need it? I can be generous, I can go without physical belongings, I care more about people than how their actions impact on me most of the time but I can't give away all of my energy.