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The Human Design knowledge base: foundations, history, types, and concepts.

Line 1 — The Investigator

Before you start something new, you want to know what you’re getting into: you read reviews, compare sources, ask questions that strike others as nitpicky — and only once you have truly penetrated the subject do you settle down. In Human Design, this stance is the hallmark of...

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Line 2 — The Hermit

You simply do something, without giving it much thought — and suddenly someone says: “How do you do that? That’s really good!” You are honestly surprised, because to you it feels like nothing special. At the same time, you regularly need your quiet and your own four walls to...

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Line 3 — The Martyr

Read the instructions? You’d rather just try it. You pick things up, test them, occasionally fall flat on your face — and afterward know more than everyone who only watched. If this is how you learn, you probably carry Line 3 in your Profile: the line of the Martyr, Human...

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Line 4 — The Opportunist

Your best jobs came through people you knew; your most important turning points, through people who already knew you — and warming up to strangers takes you a while, whereas you blossom in your familiar circle. This is exactly the life path Human Design describes with Line...

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