Often, the third chakra dominant person is unaware of the actual personal power they have. When one's consciousness begins to feel the hint of the greatness that is available as consciousness, inevitable lessons in strengthening one's character ensue. Typically, one can go through intense periods of personal dilemmas, especially related to any decisions of an emotional nature. Where the third chakra dominant personality would have difficulty making decisions is with emotional issues. This is because emotional energy does not follow the same pathways as linear thinking.
Emotions are qualitative and thoughts are quantitative.
The third chakra dominant individual is faced with conveying truth, and is often up against the qualitative aspects of the emotions when making decisions. The truth, as it is, is an ultimate with respect to one's capacity and capability to hold it. This individual will always exceed the truth, especially if they conceive that there is a level of truth above them that they sense but do not yet know. Hence, the third chakra individual will always tend to exceed themselves, often at any expense if they perceive there is any truth above that which they currently hold and understand. There is an ongoing aspiration that drives one to higher and higher forms of truth, to ultimately reject a truth that is greater than the personality can bear, or to embrace that level of truth to the exclusion of all lesser truths.