Herbert Lang often lacks energy. He is fairly apathetic and passive, preferring sluggishness to movement and leniency to initiative.

Herbert Lang has a great deal of sang-froid. His inner calm and stolidity predispose him to tasks which require self-control and perseverance. He does not readily display his emotions, even in the most hair-raising situations.

He defined himself in terms of his subjective perceptions of reality. He was often the center of his own interests and had little regard for outer reality if it did not awaken an echo within him. As a result, his behavior tended to be withdrawn and introspective.

Herbert Lang has a phlegmatic personality, and 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.

Herbert Lang has the ability to concentrate and focus his attention on a single object intensely and exclusively. He may become a specialist in his field.

Herbert Lang’s objectivity in perception and behavior could, in the best of cases, lead to generosity and altruism.

Herbert Lang’s individualism will promote 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.

Herbert Lang has a tendency to yield, to follow, to put up with situations, and follow other people’s orders. He is modest and unassuming with a need for protection and a tendency to be dependent.

Herbert Lang sometimes doubts in himself and his skills; he might be fairly shy and self-effacing. Feelings of inferiority may interfere with his ability to take action, or, on the contrary, may propel him into action if he sees a possibility of reward or compensation.

Herbert Lang sometimes finds himself in a negative frame of mind. Undermined by his fears and his craving for security, he sometimes struggles to see the sunny side of life.

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

Herbert Lang approached life with little regard for a predetermined plan; instead, he usually trusted in his ability to improvise or intuit, or his reflexes and innate good timing.

Herbert Lang’s 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.

Herbert Lang’s mind is especially perceptive of details. To arrive at a global perception, a vision of the whole, he proceeds gradually, piece by piece, aspect after aspect, in a fairly linear fashion.

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

Herbert Lang behaved in accordance with his current whims, and allowed himself to be inspired by his imagination. His openness and spontaneity gave him the scope to be skillful, ingenious, or shrewd, rising to whatever the immediate circumstances required.