Here, finally, was an objective explanation for some of my strengths and weaknesses, the simultaneous capacity for unbroken work and all-encompassing recall, linked inextricably to a driven, uncomfortable personality.
If that sounds a little depressing, it sometimes is, but in a deeply interesting way: the portrait of this particular artist is complex, unsparing and illuminating, pitilessly revealing an uncomfortable personality, forever dispossessed, oddly sulky, at core alienated, belonging to nothing and to no one, often surprised by joy but never knowing what it is to be fundamentally at ease.
Both are strong on governing and on policy, but uncomfortable with personality politics.
Past a dishevelled brass band is a tent crammed with 5,000 people who cheer when Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, declares the solar park open: "I pray, sun god, that today Gujarat will show the way to the rest of the world for solar energy".Despite the uncomfortable cult of personality around Mr Modi, Gujarat is an easy place to do business.
What Icelanders say they like about her, as much as anything, is the way in which she embodies everything the New Vikings did not: a quiet, steady personality uncomfortable with the public spotlight, who chose to stay away earlier this month from a NATO summit meeting in Europe, where she would have met President Obama and other Western leaders for the first time.
"Personally, I am uncomfortable with making a cult of personality about Madiba," he said, referring to Mr. Mandela by his clan name.
Failures and static people- the nobodies people fear to be - are seem as having undeveloped personalities; the uncomfortable feelings about those who do not "make something of themselves" when they have a chance come out of an assumption that men can be respected only as they become in some way distinctive, or possess more- as they stand out from the mass".
If Mr Bean has become an inadvertent ambassador for the British personality, it is uncomfortable not just for Batchelor, but for millions of us.
Many people are uncomfortable with touch because of personality or family history.
But in furthering this story arc, she finds herself moving into the more uncomfortable shades of the Doctor's personality.
Over a number of years in this industry, I have observed that many women feel very uncomfortable at the thought of "switching personalities" in order to get a result.
