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Okay all you serious people.

Okay all you serious people.


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Posted by Julian on December 18, 1999 at 12:43:30:

In Reply to: A superior personality system to the enneagram? posted by Cory on December 15, 1999 at 22:41:49:


Leisurely [34]
Dramatic [32]
Idiosyncratic, Self-Confident(what's that doing there??) and Sensitive [28]

I think I need to become more serious and less leisurely. :(

Julian


nfident individuals believe in themselves and their abilities. They have no doubt that they are unique and special and that there is a reason for their being on this planet.
: The red carpet: They expect others to treat them well at all times.
: Self-propulsion: Self-Confident people are open about their ambitions and achievements. They energetically and effectively sell themselves, their goals, their projects, and their ideas.
: Politics: They are able to take advantage of the strengths and abilities of other people in order to achieve their goals, and they are shrewd in their dealings with others.
: Competition: They are able competitors, they love getting to the top, and they enjoy staying there.
: Dreams: Self-Confident individuals are able to visualize themselves as the hero, the star, the best in their role, or the most accomplished in their field.
: Self-awareness: These individuals have a keen awareness of their thoughts and feelings and their overall inner state of being.
: Poise: People with the Self-Confident personality style accept compliments, praise, and admiration gracefully and with self-possession.
: Sensitivity to criticism: The Self-Confident style confers and emotional vulnerability to negative feelings and assessments of others, which are deeply felt, although theymay be handled with this style's customary grace.

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: Devoted [2]
: (Relationships)
: They care, nobody more loving, or concerned of others, happiness comes from fulfillment of other's goals.

: Commitment: Individuals of the Devoted personality style are thoroughly dedicated to the relationships in their lives. They place the highest value on sustained relationships, they respect the institution of marriage as well as unofficial avowals of commitment, and they work hard to keep theirrelationships together.
: Togetherness: They prefer the company of one or more people to being alone.
: Teamwork People with this personality style would rather follow than lead. They are cooperative and respectful of authority and institutions. They easilyrely on others and take direction well.
: Deference: When making decisions, they are happy to seek out other's opinions and to follow their advice.
: Harmony: Devoted individuals are careful to promote good feelings between themselves and the important people in their lives. To promote harmony, theytend to be polite, agreeable, and tactful.
: Consideration: They are thoughtful of others and good at pleasing them. Devoted people will endure personal discomfort to do a good turn for the key people intheir lives.
: Self-Correction: In response to criticism, they will try hard to change their behavior.

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: Dramatic [3w4 or extraverted 4w3's, 7's, some 2's]
: (Emotions, Relationships)
: All heart, have been granted with the gift of feeling, The world is a stage for those of this style.

: Feelings: Dramatic men and women live in an emotional world. They are sensation oriented, emotionally demonstrative, and physically affectionate. Theyreact emotionally to events and can shift quickly form mood to mood.
: Color: They experience life vividly and expansively. They have rich imaginations, they tell entertaining stories, and they are drown to romance andmelodrama.
: Spontaneity: Dramatic individuals are lively and fun. Their joie de vivre leads them to act on impulse to take advantage of the moment.
: Applause: Compliments and praise are like food and water to persons with Dramatic style: they need them to go on.
: Appearance: They pay a lot of attention to grooming, and they enjoy clothes, style, and fashion.
: Sexual attraction: In appearance and behavior, Dramatic individuals enjoy their sexuality. They are seductive, engaging, charming tempters and temptresses.

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: Vigilant [6]
: (Relationships)
: Possess an exceptional awareness of their environment, Survivors, antennae, Naturally assume role of social critic/watchdog.

: Autonomy: Vigilant-Style individuals possess a resilient independence. They keep their own counsel, they require no outside reassurance or advice, theymake decisions easily, and they can take care of themselves.
: Caution: They are careful in their dealings with others, preferring to size up a person before entering into a relationship.
: Perceptiveness: They are good listeners, with an ear for subtlety, tone and multiple levels of communication.
: Self-defense: Individuals with Vigilant style are feisty and do not hesitate to stand up for themselves, especially when they are under attack.
: Alertness to criticism: They take criticism very seriously, without becoming intimidated.
: Fidelity: They place a high premium on fidelity and loyalty. They work hard to earn it, and they never take it for granted.

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: Sensitive [4w5s, phobic 6's, my primary type in real life]
: (Emotions, Relationships)
: Familiarity breeds comfort, contentment, & inspiration, avoid wide social networks, avoid celebrity, like emotionally secure environment.

: Familiarity: Individuals with the Sensitive personality style prefer the known to the unknown. They are comfortable with, even inspired by, habit, repetition,and routine.
: Family: they stick close to the family and/or a few close friends. They do not require a wide network of friends and acquaintances, and they appreciate thecomforts of home.
: Concern: Sensitive individuals care deeply about what other people thinks of them.
: Circumspection: They behave with deliberate discretion in their dealings with others. They do not make hasty judgements or jump in before they know what isappropriate.
: Polite reserve: Socially they take care to maintain a courteous, self-restrained demeanor.

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: Leisurely [9's, toned-down 7's, 4's, my 2nd highest]
: (Self)
: Free to be me, happiness is what their life is all about, can find pleasure from almost any source.

: Inalienable rights: Leisurely men and women believe in the right to enjoy themselves on their own terms in their own time. They value and protect their comfort,their free time, and their individual pursuit of happiness.
: Enough is enough: They agree to play by the rules. They deliver what is expected of them and no more. They expect others to recognize and respect that limit.
: The right to resist: Leisurely individuals cannot be exploited. They can comfortable resist acceding to demands that they deem unreasonable or above and beyondthe call of duty.
: Manana: Leisurely men and women are relaxed about time. Unlike Type-A individuals, they are not obsessed by time urgency or the demands of the clock. To these individuals, haste makes waste and unnecessary anxiety. They are easygoing and optimistic that whatever needs to get done will getdone, eventually.
: I'm okay: They are not overawed by authority. They accept themselves and their approach to life. They are content with their place in the universe.

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: Adventurous [7]
: (Self, Self-Control)
: Throw caution to the winds, venture where most mortals fear to tread, not bound by typical worries and terrors, risk is the reward.

: Nonconformity: Men and women who have the Adventurous personality style live by their own internal code of values. They are not strongly influence by other people or by the norms of society.
: Challenge: To live is to dare. Adventures love the thrill of risk and routinely engage in high-risk activities.
: Mutual independence: They do not worry too much about others, for they expect each human being to be responsible for him- or herself.
: Persuasiveness: They are silver-tongued, gifted in the gentle art of winning friends and influencing people.
: Sexuality: Adventurers relish sex. They have a strong sex drive and enjoy numerous, varied experiences with different partners.
: Wanderlust: They love to keep moving. They settle down only to have the urge to pick up and go, explore, move out, move on.
: Free lance: Adventurous types avoid the nine-to-five world. They prefer to earn and independent, free-lance living, do not worry about finding work, andlive well by their talents, skills, ingenuity, and wits.
: Open purse: They are easy and generous with money, believing that money should be spent and that more will turn somewhere.
: Wild oats: In their childhood and adolescence, people with the Adventurous personality style were usually high-spirited hell raisers and mischief makers.
: True grit: They are courageous, physically bold, and tough. They will stand up to anyone who dares to take advantage of them.
: No regrets: Adventurers live in the present. They do not feel guilty about the past or anxious about the future. Life is meant to be experienced NOW.

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: Idiosyncratic [5w4, 4w5, 9w1, Jung's type, 3rd highest...I consider this type to be my soul]
: (Self, Real World)
: Not like anyone else. Dreamers, seekers of the spirit, visionaries, mystics. True originals and they stand out.

: Inner life: Idiosyncratic individuals are tuned in to and sustained by their own feelings and belief systems, whether or not others accept or understand theirparticular world view or approach to life.
: Own World: They are self-directed and independent, requiring few close relationships.
: Own thing: Oblivious to convention, Idiosyncratic individuals create interesting, unusual, often eccentric lifestyle.
: Expanded reality: Open to anything, they are interested in the occult, the extrasensory, and the supernatural.
: Metaphysics: They are drawn to abstract and speculative thinking.
: Outward view: Though they are inner-directed and follow their own hearts and minds, Idiosyncratic men and women are known observers of others, particularlysensitive to how other people react to them.

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: Solitary [5w6, 1w9's, Freud's type]
: (Self, Emotions)
: Need no one but themselves. Liberated from the drive to impress and please. Remarkably free of the emotions & involvements that distract others.

: Solitude: Individuals with the solitary personality style have small need of companionship and are most comfortable alone.
: Independence: They are self-contained and do not require interaction with others in order to enjoy their experiences and get on in life.
: Sangfroid: Solitary men and women are even-tempered, calm, dispassionate, unsentimental, and unflappable.
: Sexual composure: They are not driven by sexual needs. They enjoy sex, but will not suffer in its absence.
: Feet on the ground: They are unswayed by either praise or criticism and can confidently come to terms with their own behavior.

: Mercurial [7]
: (Emotions, Relationships, Self-Control)
: Life is a rollercoaster, insist you come along for the ride, yearn for experience, enduring to emotional weather changes.

: Romantic attachment: Mercurial individuals must always be deeply involved in a romantic relationship with one person.
: Intensity: They experience a passionate, focused attachment in all their relationships. Nothing that goes on between them and other people is trivial,nothing taken lightly.
: Heart: They show what they feel. They are emotionally active and reactive. Mercurial types put their hearts into everything.
: Unconstraint: They are uninhibited, spontaneous, fun-loving, and undaunted by risk.
: Activity: Energy marks the Mercurial style. These individuals can stir others to activity.
: Open mind: They are imaginative and curious, willing to experience and experiment with other cultures, roles, and value systems and to follow new paths.

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: Self-Sacrificing [extreme 2]
: (Relationships)
: To live is to serve, to live is to give, their needs wait until others' needs are met.

: Generosity: Individuals with the Self-Sacrificing personality style will give you the shirts off their backs if you need them. They do not wait to be asked.
: Service: Their "prime directive" is to be helpful to others. Out of deference to others, they are noncompetitive and unambitious, comfortable comingsecond, even last.
: Consideration: Self-Sacrificing people are always considerate in their dealings with others. They are ethical, hones, and trustworthy.
: Acceptance: They are nonjudgmental, tolerant of others' foibles and never harshly reproving, they'll stick with you through thick and thin.
: Humility: They are neither boastful nor proud, and they're uncomfortable being fussed over. Self-Sacrificing men and women do not like being the centerof attention, they are uneasy in the limelight.
: Endurance: They are long-suffering. They prefer to shoulder their own burdens in life. They have much patience and a high tolerance for discomfort.
: Artlessness: Self-Sacrificing individuals are rather naive and innocent. They are unaware of the often deep impact they make on other people's lives, and theytend never to suspect deviousness or underhanded motive in the people whom the give so much of themselves.

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: Aggressive [8]
: (Work, Relationships)
: I'm the boss, strong & forceful personality, take huge responsibilities, fear failure, never back away from a fight, competitive.

: Command: Aggressive individuals take charge. They are comfortable with power, authority, and responsibility.
: Hierarchy: They operate best within a traditional power structure where everyone knows his or her place and the lines of authority are clear.
: Tight ship: They are highly disciplined and impose rules of order that they expect others in their charge to follow.
: Guts: They are neither squeamish nor fainthearted. They can function well and bravely in difficult and dangerous situations without being distracted byfear or horror.
: The rough-and-tumble: Aggressive people like action and adventure. They are physically assertive and often participate or often enjoy playing competitive sports,especially contact sports.

: [Interesting, the site left out the 14th type called Serious. They are straight-faced, analytical, hard-working, realistic, hard on themselves, critical, don't like surprises, and are usually ethical. I would say it's a 1ish personality.]

: -Cory 4w5 Sensitive-Leisurely-Idiosyncratic




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