Chip Gaines has a good balance between his need for movement and his tendency to be sedentary. He is just as likely to adapt to situations which require outbursts of initiative as to those which demand patience and perseverance.

Chip Gaines approached the unfamiliar task with aplomb, although at first it seemed out of reach.

Chip Gaines feels, thinks, and acts as a function of objective circumstances. The outer world is the only one which matters to him, and his awareness is entirely focused on it. He is rarely moody or preoccupied and may sometimes be wary of his subjectivity.

Chip Gaines has a reactive personality and his responses to various outer stimuli are strong and immediate but generally brief.

Chip Gaines tries to focus on a single subject, but he finds it difficult to pay attention. He is always open to new information and ideas, and his centers of interest are fairly widespread and varied.

Chip Gaines’ objectivity in perception and behavior could, in the best of cases, lead to generosity and altruism.

Chip Gaines’ individualism promotes independent and original behavior. He tends to lack team spirit. On the contrary, he needs to feel free and untrammeled by others to be really effective.

Chip Gaines manages others.

Chip Gaines is objective about himself and able to recognize both his strengths and his weaknesses.

Chip Gaines often finds it easy to make decisions and rarely feels hindered by negative feelings or anxiety. However, his optimism may lead him to overestimate his own potential and make him liable to misjudgment.

Chip Gaines is chiefly interested in tangible facts and realistic details. A pragmatic personality, Chip never loses sight of the utilitarian or practical aspects of things.

Chip Gaines’s mind is quite nimble. He may adopt a rigid, methodical approach when necessary or switch to a more flexible, free attitude that expresses his spontaneity.

Chip Gaines thought processes rarely followed the laws of logical reasoning or linear thought; instead, they proceeded from an overall vision, which was pieced together from more or less obscure and subconscious clues.

Chip Gaines’s mind enables him to grasp reality based on a vision of the whole and instantaneously understand the entirety of a phenomenon, but he can also assemble a picture of the whole on the basis of the details.

Chip Gaines is inclined to arrange, classify, sort, catalogue, and compartmentalize, in all his life activities as well as his work.

Chip Gaines behaves impulsively and is inspired by his imagination. His openness and spontaneity give him the scope to be skillful, ingenious, or shrewd, rising to whatever the immediate circumstances require.