The 6/2 profile.

Lives in three distinct life phases — experimentation, retreat, and embodiment. Earns wisdom by living it, then becomes the example others follow.

In plain terms: The seasoned example. Lives in three career chapters — early experimentation, mid-career retreat to integrate, and later-life embodied leadership. Don't expect a Role Model in their 20s to perform like one in their 50s — the wisdom is earned through living it.

Has natural, unconscious talents that emerge when alone. Needs retreat time, then gets called out of retreat by people who notice the gift before they do.

In plain terms: The natural talent who needs alone time to deliver. Don't pull them into every meeting — they produce best work in solitude and need to be specifically called for the right project. Others will spot their gift before they see it themselves.

The 6/2 profile combines a role model's conscious mode of operating with a hermit's unconscious one. The conscious line (6) is what you identify with — the way you see yourself and articulate your role. The unconscious line (2) is what others see in you that you don’t see yourself.

The friction in your design lives in the gap between those two lines. People may project the hermit onto you while you’re trying to be the role model, or vice versa. That gap is structural, not a personal failing — and the work is to acknowledge both modes rather than try to collapse them into one.