CHAPTER 2: FORGING AHEAD WITH THE SLEUTH

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Figure 3: Sleuth archetype and shadows

As a kid, I was entranced by Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. I spent summer vacations cooped up in my room combing through Agatha Christie’s detective novels. Little did I knowthen that I would be manifesting a Sleuth archetype when auditing in the not so distant future. Whilst the Skeptic archetype is characterized by openness to uncertainty and ambiguity, the Sleuth archetype takes this a step farther, bridging an open disposition with tangible, concrete action. In this regard, the Sleuth archetype is about gathering clues, wading through seeming paraphernalia, ...

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