Enneagram:
Type Five
The Thinker tries to figure out life. The Thinker
has a compulsive need to know and understand the universe, to be self-sufficient, to be
left alone, and to avoid not having the answer or looking foolish.
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Features:
The Head Center: Moves away from others - Under
Does
Original Loss: "I did not know enough."
Problem Emotion: Fear
Decision: Being knowledgeable allows you to survive and be loved.
False Claim:"I know all about that."
Four Adjectives: Perceptive and original, but provocative and eccentric.
Self-image: I see through to the truth.
Compulsion: To read, study, and learn. Must gain information.
Avoidance: Inner Emptiness.
Sin: Greed
Gift: To teach, explain, synthesize, and simplify.
Four Wing: More creative, humanistic, sensitive, empathic, and self-absorbed.
Six Wing: More loyal, anxious, skeptical, cautious, and hardworking.
Stress Point: 7 - Impractical, indulgent castles in the sky, mental hysteria,
nonstop talking.
Security Point: 8 - Engaged, taking bold risks, making the vision real, willing to
fight to get it done.
Crossing the River: Doesn't get into the water but
hides behind the trees and observes.
Affirmation: "I don’t have to know everything."
Descriptive Adjectives for High
Functioning Fives:
Knowledgeable |
Observant |
Perceptive |
Thoughtful |
Insightful |
Profound |
Thorough |
Wise |
Gentle |
Theorist |
Speculative |
Original |
Innovative |
Keeps Confidences |
Adjectives
for Average Functioning Fives:
Understanding |
Researcher |
Concentrated |
Non-threatening |
Self-Reliant |
Interprets |
Detached |
Intense |
Private |
Distant |
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Adjectives for Low
Functioning Fives:
Determined |
Antagonistic |
Eccentric |
Reclusive |
Cynical |
Self-Absorbed |
Fearfully uncertain |
Alienated |
Nihilist |
Distorts ideas |
Compartmentalizes |
Isolates from reality |
Famous Examples of Fives:
Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Stanley
Kubrick, John Lennon, James Joyce, Stephen King, Franz Kafka, Kurt Cobain, Garrison
Keillor, Jerry Brown, Bobby Fischer, Yoda of Star Wars, Dilbert, C-SPAN.
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