Brian d’Arcy James has vast stores of vital energy which endow him with considerable physical endurance and initiative. However, the greater his energy resources, the less he might be able to control the flow.

Brian d’Arcy James tackles all sorts of tasks, even if they seem outside of his talents or training, initially.

Brian d’Arcy James defines himself in terms of his objective perceptions of reality. He is often the center of his own interests and has little regard for outer reality if it does not awaken an echo within him. As a result, his behavior tends to be withdrawn and introspective.

Brian d’Arcy James has a phlegmatic personality. His responses to various outer stimuli are sometimes postponed or delayed. He is fairly slow to initiate an activity, if not laboriously so, but once he begins, he is steady and determined.

Brian d’Arcy James has the ability to concentrate and focus his attention on a single object intensely and exclusively. He may become a specialist in his field.

Although open to others, Brian d’Arcy James perceives himself as being self-centred enough to keep himself from being submerged.

Brian d’Arcy James’ fierce 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.

Brian d’Arcy James can adapt to a situation which requires that he be humble and submit to the authority of a more competent person or leader, but he can also give orders and manage others.

Brian d’Arcy James is objective about himself and is able to recognize both his strengths and his weaknesses.

Brian d’Arcy James finds it easy to make decisions and is only rarely hindered by negative feelings or anxiety. However, his optimism may lead him to overestimate his own potential and make him liable to misjudgment.

Brian d’Arcy James is chiefly interested in tangible facts and realistic details. A pragmatic personality, he never loses sight of the utilitarian or practical aspects of things.

Brian d’Arcy James’s mind is quite nimble. He adopts a rigid, methodical approach when necessary or switches to a more flexible, free attitude that expresses his spontaneity.

Brian d’Arcy James thought processes rarely follow the laws of logical reasoning or linear thought; instead, they proceed from an overall vision, which is pieced together from more or less obscure and subconscious clues.

Brian d’Arcy James’s mind is perceptive of details. To arrive at a global perception, a vision of the whole, Brian proceeds gradually, piece by piece, aspect after aspect, in a fairly linear fashion.

Brian d’Arcy James is inclined to arrange, classify, sort, catalogue, and compartmentalize, in all his life activities as well as his work.

Brian d’Arcy James behaves impulsively and is influenced by his imagination. His openness and spontaneity give him the scope to be skillful, ingenious, or shrewd, rising to whatever the immediate circumstances require.