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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive An interesting quote...does he sound like a 5?Posted by JP on November 14, 2001 at 11:06:25: This is a quote from an interview on Salon with Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the birth-control pill: "I am an arrogant person," he admits in a thick accent during a phone interview. "I'm a very impatient person. It was tested the first time around when you asked, ‘What are you doing now?' I said, ‘Go to my Web site and read about it.' That's not nice necessarily. But I'm an honest person. Why should I pretend that I'm not arrogant when I am? The arrogance that I'm referring to is an intellectual arrogance. It is not just social arrogance by any means. It's related to my impatience. I don't like to spoon-feed people. I don't do it in my lectures. I don't do in my novels. I don't do it in my plays. This is a discussion we've had a number of times with an audience. Every one of my plays ends ambiguously. I feel very strongly that I should not provide answers. I should only ask the questions and make people think rather than brainwash them. I want people to think. If they don't, I get impatient." [Quote is from Page 2 of interview.] Does he sound like a 5?
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