Mike Sherm experiences his inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by his involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Mike Sherm leads a life which is open to the outside world. His personal consciousness is forged by the heat of outer events. He is inclined to adopt the most objective viewpoint possible to be pragmatic and perhaps even materialistic.

Mike Sherm 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.

You work hard to understand other people’s feelings, but you find it difficult to empathize with them. You think that you are insensitive, but you actually don’t understand your own emotions very well. You see the emotional world as a foreign territory, full of hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present more risks than benefits. So you may seem cold or standoffish to others. You might have trouble establishing close relationships, because you seek out special people to bond with. If you could accept and understand your own emotions, it would be easier to understand and relate to other people’s feelings. You have a strong desire for emotional independence, and might be difficult to persuade to see other people’s emotional needs. You might even be the first to deny that they exist. This makes you dependent on others, which is unconscious. It’s seen as a threat, so it’s repressed. In fact, you’re always making half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because your loneliness and fear are so intolerable.