Cool how you arrived at this insightful distinction via in the end following up on that nagging feeling.

I wonder whether the hero-sidekick differentiation is a dichotomy or whether these can be independent traits.

I'm predisposed to wonder because I kind of feel both sides of it. Both not exceptionally strongly so. Possibly more the sidekick. trait. I like to make people feel at home. I'm happy to provide for and foster my and other children. Like my mother. I like cooperative team-work. But I even more enjoy to work alone. Fal into the flow. Most time of my life I was the introvert doing/learning my own thing. Driven by curiosity and the wish to change, improve the world (I liked Harrys 'world optimization' quote). Can the world be changed alone? Probably not. But I can still feel a slight tug. And I realized that I can succeed socially even as an introvert. I just need my pauses.

In a way this is related to the question "what pain do you want in your life?" which I aposted as poll](http://lesswrong.com/lw/ksz/polling_thread/b8ol) before.