The Tiger

Strengths

• ✦An indomitable will
• ✦Total passion in everything you do
• ✦Razor-sharp reflexes and instinct
• ✦Physical and moral courage

Shadows

• ◦Impulsiveness that skips the necessary steps
• ◦Difficulty collaborating or delegating
• ◦Unpredictable, devastating bursts of anger

In love

You love the way you do everything: completely, suddenly, with no fallback plan. You need a partner who does not flinch at your intensity and has enough fire to stand up to you — passive admiration bores you within three weeks. What frightens you is having to tone yourself down to be loved, having to turn the flame low so that someone will stay.

At work

You move in assaults: days when you get through a week's worth of work, then a void where nothing comes. You shine where decisions must be made fast and responsibility carried without sharing it — emergencies, creative work, sport, entrepreneurship, high-stakes negotiation. What exhausts you is the coordination meeting, the consensus, having to wait for twelve people to agree before anything moves.

Taming its shadow

Your anger arrives before your thoughts, and it burns things you wanted to keep. When you feel it rising, give yourself one simple rule: ten steps outside before the first word, no exceptions. And every month, pick one task you hate handing over and hand it over anyway — not because the other person will do it better, but because your fire needs to be given air.

When it calls you

The Tiger calls you when you dream of stripes and tall grass, when the colour orange forces itself on you everywhere you look, when a project keeps you awake from excitement rather than dread. He often comes when you have waited too long, consulted too many people, swept too much of your rage under the rug. He asks you to act now, but first to choose a single target — not ten.