ESI+LIE

Values of the dyad ESI and LIE (rationals, central, descending, democrats, compliant, carefree, result)

Jointly accepted statements:

  1. I am demanding and uncompromising, work very hard, and despise lazy people.
  2. My self-confidence allows me to win in seemingly hopeless situations.
  3. I’m indifferent to theories, strive for practical activity, and prefer close, specific goals that bring real benefit.
  4. I value concreteness and practicality more than the ability for abstract reasoning.
  5. Practical usefulness is more important than any degree of static beauty.
  6. I am always stubborn and persistent in my demands.
  7. I would prefer to work in a private company rather than as a civil servant.
  8. Promised reward plays a decisive role in my interest in work.
  9. I can’t tolerate the cold.
  10. Money is the key to everything.

Jointly rejected statements:

  1. The saying “don’t do tomorrow what you can put off until the day after” is dearer to me than “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
  2. I often find it difficult to mobilize and concentrate on accomplishing an important task for myself.
  3. Sometimes I “play” with my various emotions, running through them in my imagination.
  4. Without moving, I watch the worldly fuss and philosophize through sleep.
  5. In my thoughts, I constantly “play different roles,” in detail living through many lives that are not my own.
  6. Fearing war or calling for friendship with other powers is already a path to defeatism and betrayal.
  7. I often get bored.
  8. I often find it very hard to tear myself away from a game I’ve started, even though more important matters await.
  9. I have many “childish” interests: I still enjoy reading many children’s books and fairy tales if they come to hand.
  10. Violence is an acceptable method for solving many problems.
  11. Sometimes fools get mad because I was late or didn’t show up at all.
  12. I work well with the radio or TV on with some content-rich program that I can occasionally pay attention to, getting distracted from work for a second or two.

Thus, the semantic core of the values of the ESI and LIE dyad is the attribution of value to one’s personal future, a sense of responsibility to oneself in the future. Hence the striving for long-term, progressive planning of one’s life and career; for the systematic accumulation of personal capital (so that your future self has more opportunities); and for the suppression of procrastination - and more broadly, of any playful behavior (which in fact does not solve concrete problems, but merely delays their solution and shifts all the burdens onto the shoulders of your future self); and the rejection of violence as a method of problem-solving (because in the long term, the moral and reputational-business costs of such behavior outweigh the short-term benefits—and even being decisive, pragmatic gamma rationals understand this well).

Among the 12 socionic functions, the values of the ESI and LIE dyad are especially strongly linked to an excess of Te and a deficiency of Ne.

Among sociotypes, these values are more often than average shared not only by LIE (78%) and ESI (77%), but also by LSE (68%), LSI (62%), SEE (59%), ESE (59%), and SLE (57%).
In contrast, these values are least sympathetic and least close to representatives of the types IEI (38% agreement), IEE and ILI (43% each).