Ali Gatie experiences his inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by his involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Ali Gatie is motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. His commitments to other people are of paramount importance to his personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for him to make decisions alone. If he wants to achieve inner equilibrium, he must behave in such a way that his actions yield benefits to others as well as himself.

Ali Gatie is a realist. He approaches life pragmatically and even his feelings are based on rational, tangible evidence. He bases his judgements on past experience and is prone to skepticism. A hard worker, he takes pride in his own endeavors and has a personal concept of his productivity. His possessions help him assert himself as an individual and act as an antidote to any feelings of insecurity. As a result, material accomplishments may preoccupy him more than either love as a passion or intellectual or philosophical considerations. Nevertheless, he becomes attached to anything which offers him certainty.

Ali Gatie struggles to understand other people’s feelings. He finds it difficult to empathize with others, and may come across as insensitive. He is not unaware of his own emotions, but he finds the emotional world confusing and frightening. If he could simply become more familiar with his emotions, this might make it easier for him to connect with other people. Ali Gatie is motivated by a desire for emotional independence, and might resist anyone who tries to draw him out of his emotional bubble. However, deep down he is always making tentative forays into the emotional world, because he fears loneliness and abandonment.