These
people are what I refer to as Template-Types or
Type-T personalities. These are the
people who instinctively or unconsciously compensate for whatever virtues they might lack in themselves. Like any printing template, it is the part that’s missing, its negative space, that shapes and defines their contributions to the world.
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, being the classic Type-T personality, actually proposed
marriage to
Lou Salome through his
best friend, Paul Rey. Some Ubermensch he was!