Dolly Parton: ESE

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

The singer-songwriter Dolly Parton, the original author of "I Will Always Love You" that brought so much fame to Whitney Houston, is a fairly typical example of ESE, maybe with mild at best accents on Gamma extraverts. She's a shrewd enough businesswoman, but that's not where her talents lie, and the SEE profile implies more individual targeting and more sense of rivalry than her record shows. Her ability to emotionally "infect" other people is semi-legendary, with her being one of the best-selling music artists ever. She herself claimed "I'm so outgoing inside in my personality, that I need the way I look to match all of that" — quite a telling self-description of a Fe lead, and a touch more ESE than EIE, although more extraverted EIE's can say such things, too. There's no doubt that her iconic look is deliberately, to the most minor detail, curated by her personally, and not only (maybe not even so much) of vanity, but out of a desire to delight the masses. As she remarked, "If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging, I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked." Considering her appearance even at her current age, she does seem to be a specialist in identifying when something needs plastic surgery, and when it doesn't.

Her 52-year-old marriage to Carl Dean (definitely some sort of introverted logical, considering how undemonstrative he was) is notable for being stable and long-lasting in the world of Hollywood divorces and breakups. It was remarkably free from jealousy — Parton once wrote a song, Jolene, about a bank teller who had a crush on her husband, and treated it as a joke, rather than as a pretext for something more dramatic — as she recalled, "it's really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one." This is the ESE's need for stable, loving attachments. She didn't have children, but the couple helped raise several of Parton's youngest siblings. Growing up poor in a large family, Parton was definitely interested in family affairs. Her biggest influence was a family member, her mother's youngest sister: "People often ask me who my influences were, they think I'm going to say some big names and there were a few 'stars' I was impressed with. But my hero was my aunt Dorothy Jo, Mama's baby sister. She was not only an evangelist, she played banjo, she played guitar and she wrote some great songs," recalled she. Her Imagination Library has given over 200 million books to children worldwide — and it didn't seem to merely be a PR stunt. In any case, choosing exactly this area for philanthropy is already quite telling.

A common negative stereotype for ESE is a dumb blonde. Patton reflected it in her famous words, "I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb — and I'm not blonde either." Note that his stereotype is not quite correct — your average ESE is dutiful enough to absorb Ti-Ne intellectualism, provided it has a high-quality source of it, and while the type is less workaholic than Fi leads (not to mention Te leads, who top the chart in this quality), it is still in the workaholic half of the socion, and Parton is no exception She founded Velvet Apple Music early and owns her copyrights and publishing outright, co-founded Sandollar Productions, built Dollywood specifically to bring jobs to a poor county. Her own line — "I'm a workhorse, I don't get tired, I'm like a little machine" — might reflect not only her high-energy, but also a very mild accent on LIE. She certainly has many De qualities (the new Talanov function that both ESE and LIE share) — she is ready to cooperate with anyone, whether it's a talk-show host, an interviewer trying to trap her, or a Dollywood employee. She clearly has been thriving on mass-communication with her audience all her life. While she has some SEE traits, too, that's a difference between ESE and SEE — SEE is not only more narcissistic, it's also more ethically calculating, and while also self-expressive, it knows when to shut up and observe what's going on before making the decisive move. ESE, on the other hand, is more likely to have a "there's no me in team" mentality and is likely the least ethically perceptive of ethical types. This is reflected in Parton's biography: Porter Wagoner sued her for a million dollars after she left, and she settled and kept saying she loved him and that he'd given her a career. She's often described as having been slow to recognise how much of her early earnings were flowing away from her, and the fix was structural — own the publishing, own the label — rather than interpersonal.

Nobody across sixty years reports her being cold to them  — compare her attitude to acting to the canonical EIE, Maria Callas. Callas often framed her emotional suggestion in terms of rivalry, of subordinating the audience to her, while I was unable to find any Parton quote when she speaks in such a way. As we have seen, she even speaks warmly even about the man who sued her for a hefty sum.