#improvisational secondaries

If anyone see this, I’ve read about SHC for a long time, but never posted until now. I already know I’m a Lion Primary, but I’m still not sure what my secondary is, other than I have an improvisational secondary with a bird secondary model and a badger secondary model/performance.  If I am a Snake, I don’t do multi-player well, but I do wonder if I just exist in neutral most of the time or it’s just battering-ram Lion or some kind of rapid-fire Bird.. Examples of single-player problem-solving: While cooking, I don’t always follow the recipe or I’ll substitute with what I have. One time I was making stuffed peppers and accidentally put too much tomato sauce into the rice. I ended up throwing out that batch and substituting salsa instead for the tomato part. It’s also not unusual for me to throw together random things for soups, stews, etc. If I don’t feel like cooking, I’ll just keep things on hand for wraps and sandwiches or premade things like carrots and dip as a side. The skin on my hands were dry and I had run out of lotion. I ended up using facial moisturizer as it was the middle of the night. In high school biology, we were supposed to create a model of the inside of a cell. The night before the assignment was due, I got the idea to buy a cookie cake, some frosting, and spent a couple of hours creating a cell. I hope these are good enough examples, but I can clarify or answer more questions if anyone has a question or even sees this, lol.

Any improvisational secondaries have thoughts on this?

First off, whether you consider lying to be morally okay or not is determined by your primary. So, the Lion/Snake avoids lying because they consider it to be morally wrong, and either finds twisting the truth to be morally okay or considers whatever advantage that comes from it to outweigh whatever guilt they feel over twisting things. In contrast, the Double Lion in this scenario is uncomfortable lying because of their secondary, not their primary. Lion secondaries feel safest in their own skin, when they're being true to themself. Oftentimes, lying is contradictory to that feeling. It makes the Lion secondary feel anxious/vulnerable/uncomfortable/etc. But it should be noted that if their primary feels that it's okay to lie in certain situations, the Lion secondary may lie without that discomfort (for example, if they truly believe that lying is the best way to protect someone). As long as they are being true to themself and their primary, there is no conflict.

What you should ask yourself is how you feel about doing that overly polite face for strangers. Does it feel wrong on some level? Or is it simply what you need to do to get through those situations? How would you feel if you started to get closer to one of those strangers? Would you drop the polite face because it would feel wrong, like a lie, otherwise? Or would you drop the mask because you've come to trust the person enough to show your true self? In other words, a mask to a Lion is a deception and to a Snake it's protection. If you can figure out how you feel about your polite face, you should have your answer.

I’d love to hear some testimony on this. Most of the people with executive dysfunction issues that I know are Built secondaries - I think because those issues are more obvious *younger* on them. Improvisers are okay pulling off last-minute solutions that don’t require prep or planning, they’re more okay getting other people to help with (or even do) their work, and they’re better at finding ways around problems and around tasks. Like, not everyone needs to keep a daily planner to function? The big thing I see with Improvisational secondaries is actually knowledge gaps and impostor syndrome. 

I'm an INFP Lion Snake for reference.