Funny Mike seeks to make his inner wealth outwardly manifest and substantial.

Because Funny Mike is a social being oriented toward other people, his personal interests often mingle with those of his associates or those of the group to which he belongs. He 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.

While Funny Mike is attracted to interpersonal activities, his significant need for inner security may stand in the way of his overtures to others. Since Funny Mike is highly receptive to other people’s inner natures, he seeks tight bonds with others. Funny Mike unconsciously needs their psychological support in his quest for himself. Were Funny Mike to evaluate his psychological development, he would place more value upon human warmth, intimacy, and the need to share than on intellectual understanding or personal freedom of expression.

Funny Mike 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.

Funny Mike works harder than others to understand other people’s feelings. But this seeming lack of empathy and compassion for others simply mirrors Funny Mike’s own difficulty in understanding his own feelings and emotional needs. Funny Mike is not insensitive, but he is baffled by his own emotions. He sees the emotional world as a foreign terrain, perhaps fraught with hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present more drawbacks than advantages. As a result, Funny Mike may appear to be hard or aloof.

Funny Mike might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as he seeks special individuals to bond with. If Funny Mike were able to accept and understand his own emotions, he would have an easier time grappling with other people’s feelings.

Funny Mike has a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. Funny Mike might even be the first to deny that such needs are real.

As a result, Funny Mike’s dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although Funny Mike offers conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure him out of his emotional bubble, Funny Mike is always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because his loneliness and fear are so unbearable.