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

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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