![]() The habit of attention takes over, distorting your experience in the world, and leading to ugly behavior. A world in which everyone had completely relaxed their habit of attention would be a world of great compassion.īut what happens when things go the other way? In Enneagram terms, the lowest version of yourself is when you become trapped in your fixation. The Enneagram encourages us to relax this habit of attention, come back into the center, and share the best version of our true selves with the world. The fundamental idea is that we each have a habit of attention we lean too far into. Don’t worry this is a safe place, my fellow 4s.One of the major benefits of the Enneagram personality test is that it not only helps you understand who you are, it gives you a very clear path to be the best version of yourself. What Enneagram Type are you? Take the free quiz and let me know in the comments! I’d love to learn more about the other eight types or bask in a beloved community of 4s. So, stay tuned next time to see what Unhealthy Tom looks like. But from Strengths Finder to Enneagram, I’m learning that the more I understand me, the more growth and confidence comes. Honestly, researching Enneagram Type 4s made me overwhelmed by me. Fours also manage their shame by cultivating a rich, romantic fantasy life in which they do not have to deal with whatever in their life seems drab or uninteresting to them. Fours highlight their individuality and creativity as a way of dealing with their shameful feelings, although Fours are the type most likely to succumb to feelings of inadequacy. The focus on shame feels quite apt of my personality:įours attempt to control their shame by focusing on how unique and special their particular talents, feelings, and personal characteristics are. This snippet from the Enneagram Type 4 page really jumped out at me. Enneagram Type 4: Me in a Single Paragraph I basically couldn’t ask for anything more in life. +++ I am Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp all rolled into one: two famous Enneagram Type 4s. ![]() +/-/? I am more suited “to endure suffering with a quiet strength” compared with all the other Enneagram types. I feel like nobody will ever fully get me. – I feel vastly different from the rest of humanity. More complex. + I want to attract a rescuer. I long for genuine friends who will see the mess I am and still extend their hand to pull me from the mire. I want to be fully known, and yet I cannot bear the thought of being too great a burden on others. – I withdraw from others to protect my self-image. From my work to other people to simple geography, I yearn for beautiful things at every turn to photograph and film and most of all write about. + I long to surround myself with beauty and inspiration so that I can create. I feel lost and forgotten in the fold as everyone else finds their way. – At my worst, I fear I have no significance. I look around me and see nobody there, and I have no purpose, and I deduce I’ve fallen off the cliff of significance. + At my best, I am inspired and creative. I write blogs and write books and, you know, tweet and stuff. In the subsequent parts of this Enneagram series, I’ll delve deeper into my healthy “growth” and unhealthy “stress.” For now, though, here are some common positive/negative Enneagram Type 4 traits of which I completely resonate: ![]() So, even though I’m predominantly an Enneagram Type 4, I also have an Enneagram Wing 5 for “The Investigator” since I seek understanding and the need to be deemed capable. I particularly enjoy this Enneagram graphic of numbers and arrows and lovely looking geometry:Īdditionally, you can be any of the nine Enneagram types and also have a “wing” for either of your two neighboring types. A healthy/growing Enneagram Type 4, for example, takes on the redeeming qualities of an Enneagram Type 1, and an unhealthy/stressed Enneagram Type 4 takes on the less desirable qualities of an Enneagram Type 2. The cool thing about Enneagram Types is that everyone is connected. Today’s post is the first in a brief series that will delve into both halves of my Type 4 being, the appealing and the awful. I’m an Enneagram Type 4: “The Individualist.” I am sensitive and introspective and expressive and dramatic and self-absorbed and temperamental. Even before taking the short test, though, I knew. Enneagram is actually a personality model that defines the human race into nine particular “types.” I’ve become such a sucker for personality stuff, so I quickly set to determining which of the nine types I was. ![]() I figured the objective was to make up “any” word you could along with a faux-definition for it.Īlas, Enneagram is quite different from Anyogram, the board game currently not sweeping the nation. The first time I heard of Enneagram, I thought it was spelled “Anyogram.” I thought it was a board game. ![]()
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