No one in the family has ever seen them laugh, yet they are the life of any party. Their idea of being respected at home is to be sullen. The style of life remains the same as long as persons move toward the same goal. Since the style of life is a method of approaching one's goal or bringing one's pattern to realization, very divergent things go into it. The means that people use to bring their patterns to realization can be so opposite from one another that others may have the idea that two souls reside in the same body.
People can be generous and stingy or industrious and lazy at the same time.
We can see that these different means are being used in order to reach the same goal. We know very well that persons can gallop, creep, jump, take a car, ride a bicycle, even go backwards, as long as they are still going in the same direction. The means that people use to get there are the means that in their opinion will best fit the situation. I remember a lecture given by Adler to some ten people in his Viennese home, in English. One of the listeners was a Canadian professor who submitted the case of a college student who had been such an excellent student in high school that everybody expected him to be one in college too.