The Anchor (I-V-A-D)

Sets a firm position fast and defends it.

Your first instinct becomes a wall you can't see past.

You plant a position fast and you defend it immovably. 'The lady's not for turning.' Your first instinct sets the anchor, you stand alone against your own party and the crowd, and you will not be pushed off it — which makes you stable, unflappable, and impossible to stampede. In a world of waverers, that spine is rare and valuable. But your first instinct becomes a wall you can't see past. Your blind spot is Anchoring Bias reinforced by Confirmation Bias: that fast initial read calcifies into a fixed position, and then you screen incoming evidence for whatever confirms it. So a snap judgment hardens into a doctrine you defend long past the point the facts underneath it changed — the poll tax you'd never reconsider. Your strength and your flaw are the same muscle: the refusal to be moved. Held against pressure, it's conviction. Held against new reality, it's just a wall — and you can't tell the two apart from the inside.

Signature blind spot: Anchoring Bias