…by examining and experimenting to find out what works successfully, so that you keep up to date with the facts and clarify the relationship between cause and effect.
…that open up areas that have been unknown until now, and you do this through practical knowledge or discoveries.
…with persistent discipline, through practical trials and with the common sense that supersedes supposition, faith and speculation.
When KNOWLEDGE is the primary motivator of your extroverted personality type, it means that your analytical modes of activity are activated in relationship to your need for security, safety, self-confidence and status. You are under the influence of the Investigator archetype, which gives you the persistence to craft an independent, successful life.
If you are motivated by KNOWLEDGE, you are on the right track when you can rethink and improve the ways in which your field of practice functions. You are possibly very skilled at getting the technical and methodological aspects of your work to function in a logical, effective manner. You are governed by an irrepressible curiosity about how and why things or relationships function the ways that they do and you have a strong urge to examine this.
If you are primarily motivated by KNOWLEDGE as an extroverted personality type, then you are in good company with well-known individuals such as: Vasco da Gama, Galileo Galilei, Hans Christian Ørsted, Philo Farnsworth and Alexander Graham Bell.
If KNOWLEDGE is your primary personality motivator, then it must be balanced with your essence type. When you discover what it is, you will have found the key to your ‘being versus doing’ balance, which leads to greater happiness, meaningfulness and breakthrough power.