Enneagram Type #4. Description of Type Four: The Romantic Fours are motivated by the need to understand and express their deepest feelings and to discover what is authentic in themselves.
They want to feel special and unique, and avoid being seen as ordinary. Their attention is focused on whatever is missing, distant, and idealized. Personal Growth Recommendations for Enneagram Type Fours. The Process Enneagram of Consciousness and RHETI Data. © By Walter J.
Geldart, M.Eng., M. Div. - Nov, 1998 This article shows how to use a person's RHETI scores with the Enneagram of Consciousness 1 Process Model to: 1) confirm enneagram personality type, 2) explore preference scores for several Jungian/enneagram information triads associated with specific traits, 3) calculate the preference scores for eight Jungian psychological processes and a ninth moving function, and 4) compare these preference scores with MBTI Form M scores for eight MBTI Scale Preferences (E-I, S-N, T-F, and J-P).
The RHETI and MBTI data used in the article was reported by a professional artist. The RHETI enneagram scores are close to the median for six Enneagram Points. Conversely, Points Seven and Eight have sensation as the conscious Jungian function gift, and their combined sensation function score is below the median (-9). 1.2 The Reported MBTI Form M Scores Mark's reported MBTI Type is INFJ. Enneagram Type 4: The Romantic. Focus of attention What is missing Life lesson To reclaim wholeness in the present moment by appreciating what is here and now, feeling the experience in their bodies rather than over-indulging in the story of what’s happening, and accepting yourself as you are without needing to be special or unique Speaking style Fours are expressive of feelings, personal, self-focused and have a flair for originality.
What Type Fours tell us about themselves I long for what’s missing, distant or unattainable – the ordinary pales in comparison.My deep sense of abandonment translates into a belief that I will never be fulfilled.I envy and idealize what others have that I don’t.Authenticity and meaningful experiences are essential to me.My suffering sets me apart from others. 4 - Enneagram Type Four: The Individualist. Type Four in Brief Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved.
They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences. Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity) Enneagram Four with a Three-Wing: "The Aristocrat" Enneagram Four with a Five-Wing: "The Bohemian" The Meaning of the Arrows (in brief) When moving in their Direction of Disintegration (stress), aloof Fours suddenly become over-involved and clinging at Two.
Type Four Overview “I collapse when I am out in the world. Fours are in the same predicament. Chart of the Enneagram of Personality. Enneagram-Spirituality. Type 4, The Individualist Triad (Corner): Heart (image, feeling) Core Issue: Shame Personality runs on: Frustration Values: Emotional Reactivity Style: Withdrawn Passion: Envy Virtue: Equanimity Description: Creatures of emotional extremes, fours are awash in a stormy sea of emotions.
They are all about relationships and seem to be always beginning, ending, or analyzing relationships. They feel frustrated in their search for connection to others. As children, they didn’t feel like the parents really understood them or were there for them emotionally. Fours are not content with the ordinary, in any sense of the word. The passion of the Four is envy. Fours are so identified with their feelings that they believe they ARE their feelings. Fours withdraw from others, often with high drama, so that others come and find them. When healthy, fours learn to stay with the ordinariness of their real feelings – to actually feel the real pain, grief, sadness that comes with living. Enneagram Misidentifications - Type 5 - Enneagram and Myers Briggs.
In this article, I will try to clear up some of the differences between Enneagram Type Five and the rest of the Enneagram types respectively.
The comparison tables will be subject to modifications and additions as more information reveals itself. I hope it will be a useful tool for people who have trouble mistyping or aren't sure of their type - I'm one of them too. 5 and 1 Mistyping frequency: sometimes (5w6 and 1s can resemble each other). Five ThoughtUncertainDisturbs peopleImpracticalPlayfulIngeniousNon-judgmentalConfuseWithdrawnDetachedImaginativeInductive logicQuestions rulesDiscoveryIconoclast OneActionCertainConvinces peoplePracticalRigidCorrect JudgmentalDiscerningControllingInvolvedRealisticDeductive logicFollows rulesPerfectionMoralist 5 and 2 Mistyping frequency: very rarely (sexual 5s can be mistyped as 2s by others) FiveDetachedColdLonersIndividualistsAnalyticalCerebralIntellectualizesWithdrawAfraid of othersCynicalUnsocial.