Posted by Jan den Breejen on March 21, 2001 at 03:58:59:
Bruce Lee
Over-active, apparently over-confident person, and also an over-reactive person. He could be joking with other people's behaviors but when there were slights he easily erupted with angry, feroucious intensity; posturing and threatening until his rivals backed down. This could for example be seen when he was doing the famous Enter the Dragon movie. Then his local fame made fight-lusty walk-on men (recruited from Hong Kong street gangs) provoce him into a fight. He endangered the movie project by wanting to engage them individually and the Hollywood movie boss threatened to stop the project. Only his harmonizing wife prevented that.
Bruce Lee seeked to impress society as being someone significant, persisting in wanting to make a big Hollywood movie to make him a star in the USA when nobody wanted to offer him a star role. Outer image of being tough and assertive, allways busy with proving his strength and skill; training extremely hard to guarantee a reputation of indomitable courage; gaining the 'alfa male' status in his environment. Frequent verbal and physical fights with people around him. Although Tom Cruise is not so interpersonally agressive; Bruce shares his narcissistic need of being thought of as unflawed, invincible. No mistakes were allowed at the Enter The Dragon set (image-perfectionism.) Bruce liked to show his newly gained status by buying an expensive conspicious red sports car and driving it around in Hollywood.
Classification: probably Adventurous Style with narcissistic traits.
Jan