Promethean

A Promethean wants to make something that did not exist before. Improving the current version feels like a detour: the real work is the leap. This pole maps directly to the Innovator in Kirton's Adaption-Innovation theory, one of the most validated frameworks in organizational psychology, whose Innovators seek to do things differently.

In Five-Factor terms this is high Openness to Experience, which a meta-analysis links to innovation behavior. Cognitive scientists call it the exploration end of the exploration-exploitation tradeoff, described as one of the most basic tradeoffs in nature. The Promethean is willing to risk the unproven for the chance at something genuinely new.