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Enneagram 5 Nickname: “The Thinker” or “The Observer” (also known as “The Innovator”, “The Expert”, “The Specialist”).
5s are very cerebral and want to figure out why things are the way they are. They are always searching, asking questions and delving deeply into things. There is a tendency to hang back and observe the situation instead of participating in it. They spend a lot of time in their own heads and imaginations and are often uncomfortable or quiet in social settings. 5s are usually extremely intelligent and analytical.
Enneagram 5 Strengths
Enneagram 5 Challenges or Weaknesses
Enneagram 5 Careers
Basic fear: Of being worthless, and having no value apart from their achievements. Basic desire: To feel valuable, accepted, desirable.
Type 5 with a 6 wing is called “The Charmer” Type 5 with a 7 wing is called “The Professional”
When 5s evolve they take on characteristics of type 8 (they become more bold) When 5s are under stress they take on characteristics of type 7 (become scattered)
Vice: Avarice
Unconscious childhood message: It is not ok to be comfortable in the world. Lost childhood message: Your needs are not a problem.
Famous & Fictional Enneagram 5s
Isaac Asimov exemplifies a type 5’s brilliant mind perfectly. He was a professor of biochemistry and a best selling science fiction writer. Many 5s are drawn to scientific pursuits because the professions uses their well honed natural talents of observation. Isaac Asimov is also an INTJ, also known as “The Mastermind.”
Agatha Christie Al Pacino Albert Camus Albert Einstein Alfred Hitchcock Amelia Earhart Annie Leibowitz Anthony Hopkins B.F. Skinner Bill Gates Bobby Fischer Buster Keaton Charles Darwin Charles Lindbergh Clive Barker Cynthia Ozick Daniel Day-Lewis David Byrne David Cronenberg David Lynch Doris Lessing Ebenezer Scrooge Edward O. Wilson Emily Dickinson Ezra Pound Franz Kafka Freidrich Nietzsche Gary Larson George Lucas Georgia O’Keefe Glenn Gould Greta Garbo Hannah Arendt Howard Hughes Isaac Asimov Isaac Newton Jacob Brownowski J. Paul Getty Jean-Paul Sartre Jeremy Irons Joe DiMaggio John Cage John D. Rockefeller John la Carré John Lennon Joyce Carol Oates Jules Verne k.d. lang Karl Marx Keanu Reeves, Kurt Cobain Lars Von Trier Laurie Anderson Madeleine Stowe Marie Curie Max Von Sydow Nick Cave Nikola Tesla Oliver Sacks Paul Gauguin, Peter Serkin Ralph Fiennes René Descartes Richard Chamberlain Robert DeNiro Sam Neill Sigmund Freud Simone Weil Stanley Kubrick Stephen Hawking Stephen King T. S. Eliot Theodore Kaczynski (aka The “Unabomber” Thomas Harris Tim Burton Umberto Eco Ursula K. Le Guin Vincent Van Gogh Vladimir Nabokov Werner Heisenburg William Butler Yeats
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