©Arlene R. Taylor PhD

altHuman beings tend to pursue friendships (or not) for a variety of reasons. While everything from opportunity and availability to one’s position on the EAI Continuum undoubtedly impact choices, lifetime best friends tend to share similar brain function.

Following are examples of the way in which individuals might go about selecting friends based on his or her brain's innate energy advantage.

altPrioritizing Division

altEnvisioning Division

 

Individuals with an energy advantage in this division may:

  • Make logical choices about a few select friends who are usually associated with work, career, or organizational boards

Their friends must be capable, useful, successful, goal-oriented, and relatively unemotional

 

Individuals with an energy advantage in this division may:

  • Make spontaneous choices about unusual friends but may be unpredictable about maintaining connection, easily bored

Their friends must be interesting, stimulating, visionary, and have a great sense of humor

 

altMaintaining Division

altHarmonizing Division

Individuals with an energy advantage in this division may:

  • Make practical and habitual choices about friends who are usually drawn from club members, team members, or are work-related

Their friends must be dependable, predictable, traditional, and conservative (e.g., not too boisterous, don’t draw attention)

 

Individuals with an energy advantage in this division may:

  • Make emotional choices about myriad friends and like to share activities (e.g., music, drama, potlucks, holidays, vacations, spiritual retreats) but may get feelings hurt rather easily

Their friends must be expressive, loyal, affectionate, touch-oriented, and loyal