Promise-Effort

• High promise, high effort: potential + action, a capable, successful person, a star
• High promise, low effort: potential, but little action, a brilliant but pulsating dwarf, idealistic but lacks focus, a problem child
• Low promise, high effort: little potential + action, a hardworking, but tactless person, consistent but needs guidance & role models, may be misled, diligent learning, a buffalo
• Low promise, low effort: little potential + little action, an incapable person, though tactless, difficult to be made use of since lazy & not focused, a dog

Control-Action

• Can control, take action: focus & work on things effectively, a capable & successful person, understand the ways of the world, adaptable
• Can control, no action: not taking action when the means are available, an idle, nonchalant person, thinker but powerless
• Cannot control, take action: work on useless things, a searcher that eventually exhausts himself out, dreamer that does not belong to this world
• Cannot control, no action: do not work on useless things, a sensible, understanding person, often vigilant in danger and amidst changes

Wealth-Health

• Wealthy, healthy: plentiful + fitness, have the means to enjoy and is able to enjoy, a fortunate and wholesome person
• Wealthy, unhealthy: plentiful but sickly, not able to enjoy what one has, a worrisome and tight person
• Not wealthy, healthy: inadequacy + fitness, able to enjoy what little one has, a jolly, happy-go-merry person
• Not wealthy, unhealthy: inadequacy + sickly, an unfortunate and poor person, learn to let go and not worry

Self-Subject

• I know that I know: self-aware of comprehension, knowledgable
• I know that I don't know: self-aware of incomprehension, vigilant
• I don't know that I know: unaware of comprehension, effortless inculturation
• I don't know that I don’t know: unaware of incomprehension, ignorant realisation

Action-Reflection

• Action with Reflection: thought-conduct-judgement, wholesome & responsive, a mirror with an image
• Action without Reflection: conduct without thought & prudence, incomplete & non-living, a mirror without an image
• Little action with Reflection: thought without conduct, avoidance & suspicion, trying to find an image without mirror
• Little action without Reflection: void of thought & conduct, blindfolded & near termination, neither mirror nor image

Whole-Parts

• Survey the Whole & Focus on Parts: overview the phenomenon in its entirety coupled with insights into its intrinsic details, lays foundation for wholesome perspective
• Survey the Whole: view the phenomenon as undivided, cohesive continuum, detects the macro-behaviour without intrinsic insights
• Focus on Parts: divide-and-understand the broken-down components of the phenomenon, sees the micro-behaviour without extrinsic overview
• Follow the phenomenal behaviour: without knowledge & understanding of the whole & parts, blindly & aimlessly but maybe diligently adhering to the behaviour, likely to go off path

Comfort-Challenge

• Seek comfort amidst challenges: nourishes the soft emotions while embarking on the hard escapades; fulfilling
• Seek comfort avoid challenges: breeds complacency, weak-willed & cowardice
• Discard comfort amidst challenges: cultivates the hard, adventurous & forward-looking characteristics but without the softness of rest, reassurance & warmth
• Discard comfort avoid challenges: insights into ways of surroundings, understands challenges need comfort & comfort need challenges, wishes to retain the origin, roots and fundmentals

Hardworking-Smartworking

• Hardworking: mindless perseverance, determination, strength
• Smartworking: mindful, focused, planned, flexible, compassion
• Not hardworking, not smartworking: lazy, idle, misguided, easily used, taken advantage of, suppressed, repressed, hopeless
• Hardworking, but not smartworking: sheer determination, physical & emotional strength, blindly driven, might be misguided, but very efficient under conducive environment
• Not hardworking, but smartworking: witty, cunning, analytical, philosopher, driven academically, intellectually, simulative, able to initiate but lacks perseverance needed to carry through with the finishing moves
• Hardworking and smartworking: wholesome, complete, driven, motivational, leadership, able to initiate, carry through & finish

Inner-Outer

• Lacks inner core & Numb to outer events: no internal peace & stability for comfort, rest & recuperation; unaware & unresponsive to external situations for vigilance, niche & adaptation; don't know serenity, don't know dangers; a recipe for implosion or explosion; destructive, diastrous & indeed, tragic in nature; an ignorant one
• Secures inner core, but Numb to outer events: bears, cultivates & stoutly, quietly secures one's inner core of absolute peace, harmony & serenity; hence, able to hold firm & flexible amidst external risks, uncertainties & difficulties; but not responsive to external events; hence, peaceful without foresights & preparations; healthy but unwealthy; an emotional one
• Lacks inner core, but Vigilant to outer events: highly aware, vigilant, understanding & responsive to external stimulus & events; but always without rest, peace, stability, calm & indeed, happiness; wealthy but unhealthy; may be highly sensitive, unable to face up to self-reality & lives in a make-belief inner state; an active one
• Secures inner core & Vigilant to outer events: holds, grows & stoutly protects own inner core of peace, stability & calm without relenting to external forces; insightful perceptions, understanding & piercing vigilance to fluctuating external circumstances without self unrest & disturbance; healthy & wealthy; firm & well-anchored; outstanding & out-reaching; fulfilling, wholesome, balanced & equilibrating; an unfigeting one

Potential-Realisation

• Low potential, little realisation: little inherent capacity & capability, with minimal awareness & know-how of utilising, exploring usage - retarded
• Low potential, much realisation: little capacity & capability, but educated, trained, cultivated carefully to be aware of & ability to magnify whatever abilities there are - trained orang utan
• High potential, little realisation: maximal inherent capacity & capabilities, but unfortunately minimal awareness & utilisation of such capacity, due to limiting factors such stability, strength, support, environment, emotions & rigidity - an under-utilised punk
• High potential, much realisation: maximal inherent capacity & capability, with corresponding maximised utilisation, application & propagation, under favourable conditions - champion surfer