“If you’re logical and if you have a lot of logical activation, you’ve got to work on your social skills because they’re essential.
Remember, you’re always looking for something. The logical creative being [16-48] is always looking for money. It’s always looking for backing. It’s always looking for somebody to share their identification, and it can’t just be a hit or miss process for them. They’re identified with it. They’re focused on it. They’re out to get it from anyone, anywhere.
So the development of their social skills means that they’re going to have easier access, and they’re going to have greater opportunities. You can really see this in class-oriented societies. In England, for example, the old boy connection. You all go to the same fine school and you all end up with connections. So you’re a complete jerk and useless, but you’ve been rooming with people whose parents own this and that and that and that and whatever, and all of a sudden you have any kind of opportunity you want.
One of the things to see underneath the surface of these two collective creative channels [16-48 - logical collective and 35-36 abstract collective] is that the real secret there is about social skills. That’s the real secret. It is a talent for social skills. The 16.5 is a leader. It’s a talent for social skills. It’s the ability to be able to recognize in the other, and to recognize who you can work with, who could be a backer, who can be just somebody who stands and applauds for you, who is somebody that gives you that sense that you’re not inadequate. The social skills are as important as the creative results.”