RESTORATIVE 
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the bhallenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and unfa- miliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing-this machine, this technique, this person, this company~ighihave ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it. 

Restorative sounds like this: 
Nigel L., software designer: "I have these vivid memories of my childhood woodworking bench with hammers and nails and wood, I used to love fixing things and putting things together and making everything just so, And now with computet programs it's the same thing, You write the program, and if it doesn't work, you have to go back and redo it and fix it until it works." 
Jan K., internist: "This theme plays in my life in so many ways. For example, my first love was surgery, I love trauma, love being in the OR, love sewing. I just lov~ fixing things in the OR, Then again, some of my best moments have been sitting at the bedside of a dying patient, just talking together. It is incredibly rewarding to watch someone make the transition from anger to acceptance about grief, to tie up loose ends with family members, and to pass with dignity. And then with my kids this theme fires every day. When I see my three-year-old buttoning her sweater for the first time and she buttons it crooked, I feel this poweIfuI urge to walk up and rebutt~# the sweater. I have to resist, of course, because she has to learn, but, boy, it's reall~ hard." ", 
" Marie T., television producer: "Producing a morning TV program is a fundaf, ,.. 
mentally clumsy process. If Ididn 't like solving problems, this job would drive ni~! up the wall, Every day something serious goes wrong, and I have to find the problem'f~i 
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fix it, and move on to the next one. If I can do that well, I feel rejuvenated. On th~ other hand, if I go home and a problem remains unsolved, then I feel the oppositei~:i 
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feel defeated," "i: ::': , 
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