Mary Steenburgen sometimes lacks energy. She is fairly apathetic and passive, preferring sluggishness to movement and leniency to initiative.

Mary Steenburgen has a great deal of sang-froid. Her inner calm and stolidity predispose her to tasks which require self-control and perseverance. She does not readily display her emotions, even in the most hair-raising situations.

Mary Steenburgen feels, thinks, and acts as a function of objective circumstances. The outer world is the only one which counts for her, and her awareness is entirely focused on it. She is rarely moody or preoccupied and may sometimes be wary of her subjectivity.

Mary Steenburgen has a phlegmatic personality, and her responses to various outer stimuli are sometimes postponed or delayed. She is fairly slow to initiate an activity, if not laboriously so, but once she begins, she is steady and determined.

It can be difficult for Mary Steenburgen to focus on a single subject; however, she is extremely open and always tries to learn and integrate new information and ideas. She is more cross-disciplinary than specialist, and her centers of interest are fairly widespread and varied.

In the best of cases, Mary Steenburgen’s objectivity in perception and behavior could lead to generosity and altruism.

Mary Steenburgen has a marked ability to adapt to others, to adopt prevailing attitudes, and integrate herself into groups. She is quite community-minded, with a true sense of team spirit, and gives the best of herself when working in unison with a group. Cooperation is her forte.

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

Mary Steenburgen is objective about herself and able to recognize both her strengths and her weaknesses.

Because Mary Steenburgen is often in a positive frame of mind, she finds it easy to make decisions and is only rarely hampered by negative feelings or anxiety. However, her optimism may lead her to overestimate her own potential and make her liable to misjudgment.

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

Mary Steenburgen approaches life with a systematic and disciplined approach. She plans out her projects and schedules in order to yield maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

Mary Steenburgen’s thought processes seldom 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.

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

Mary Steenburgen is inclined to arrange, classify, sort, catalogue, and compartmentalize, in all her life activities as well as her work.

Mary Steenburgen behaves impulsively and is influenced by her imagination. Her openness and spontaneity give her the scope to be skillful, ingenious, or shrewd, rising to whatever the immediate circumstances require.