Artisans are happiest when working with any and all sorts of equipment. Apparatus, implements, machines, and instruments captivate them; they are things to be used -- employed, deployed -- and the Artisans cannot not operate them. They must drive the bulldozer, pilot the plane, steer the boat, fire the gun, toot the horn, wield the scalpel, brush, or chisel.

They can become interested in kind of Artcraft. Artcraft must not be limited to the so-called fine arts, such as painting and sculpture, or the performing arts, music and dance, but in fact includes athletic, culinary, literary, martial, mechanical, rhetorical, theatrical, and industrial arts, not to mention what Donald Trump called the "Art of the Deal" in big business. The "persuasional arts" should also be considered as political and entertainment fields profit from the Artisan's charming grace.

Excerpted from Please Understand Me II, by David Keirsey
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