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Type

Five

As a Type Five, you have many tendencies that help you and others in life. Like all the other types, you also have specific blind spots and challenges. There are habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are actually self-limiting, but that represent valuable growth opportunities when you become more aware of them.

Here’s an overview of type FIVE

key aspects of your type Five style.

You are a rational person who values the capacity to stay logical and intellectually coherent. Other people, however, may experience you as someone who overthinks things.

You have a natural tendency to detach from emotions and observe situations and people from a distance. While you may view this tendency as a positive capacity to be impartial–which allows you to gain a deeper, more objective understanding of things–other people may sometimes experience you as being disconnected.

You seek privacy and time alone more than other people do. It is important for you to remain independent and self-sufficient. You place a high value on having time for yourself so that others will not invade your space or drain you of energy. If you can’t maintain your private space at any given time, you can even experience a sense of “being alone” when in the company of others.

You focus a great deal of attention on controlling your personal resources like your space, time, and energy level. You feel challenged when you find yourself in a situation where your space is invaded, or your time or agenda is taken up by or controlled by others—especially if this happens in a way that surprises you. Therefore, you regularly find ways to put limits on how much you make yourself available.

You are mostly a calm, reserved person, although you can experience moments of agitation, stress, or even anger. You can appear composed even during a crisis because you tend to detach from strong emotions.

Type Five Key Motivation

Type Fives are motivated to acquire information and knowledge through study or observation as a survival strategy to:

  • Find meaning and safety through your ability to analyze and understand things
  • Constantly develop your mental capacities, which you value highly
  • Makes sense of a social world that can be challenging or overwhelming
  • Avoid experiencing situations like small talk or discussions of topics you find uninteresting, unimportant, or overly emotionally draining
  • Preserve your own space and time and avoid external demands

Does this initial explanation of Type Five describe you? Or maybe who you have been in the past or for much of your life?

And There's More

Our test also captured your likely subtype. So, what is a subtype?

Each of the 9 Enneagram personality types comes in three versions – or “subtypes.” Your subtype tells you which of one of three central “instinctual drives” motivates you the most—either a survival instinct that focuses on “self-preservation,” your relationship to the “social” group (or tribe), or the expression of “sexual” energy and one-to-one bonding.
When you blend your “dominant instinctual drive” with your main type, you get your subtype – which gives you more precise information about your type that will help you confirm whether this is the right type – and help you understand your specific personality patterns and your particular path of self-development.

Based on your responses to this test, your likely Enneagram subtype is:

The Self-preservation Five

Boundaried intellectuals who model sense and calmness.

As a Self-Preservation (SP) Five, you express Type Five patterns blended with a strong instinctual drive that focuses on Self-Preservation. You are different than the other two type Five subtypes by displaying these five unique tendencies:

1. Hiddenness or sanctuary. You feel a need to be encastled, to be able to hide behind walls or to be protected by walls. You want to maintain the ability to make boundaries with others when you need to.

2. A need to be able to withdraw to a place of refuge or safety. Psychologically (and often physically), you frequently build thick walls to protect yourself from the world and other people. You like to have everything inside those walls so you can be self-sufficient and don’t have to venture out into the dangerous surrounding world if you don’t want to.

3. Boundaries. You feel a need to maintain boundaries and potential boundaries with others to prevent any threat of deprivation or depletion they might pose. But most importantly, you need to have control over your boundaries to avoid losing control of valued resources, including time and personal space. You avoid expressing needs and wants to others because every desire could open the door to becoming dependent on others.

4. Hard to communicate openly and express your feelings. This need for hiddenness can create difficulties with self-expression and communication. You can be very withdrawn. You tend to avoid expressing needs and wants and you try to get by on very little. You also may experience a sense of attachment to objects, places, and the few relationships you have.

5. Hard to connect with feelings. It can feel challenging for you to feel and express your emotions to others. Because of this tendency, it’s a good idea for you to try to relax your boundaries more and connect with feelings (including anger), even when it inspires fear or discomfort. To grow and develop, it can be important for you to work against (potentially false) beliefs about the difficulty of getting needs met by others. This view can leave you feeling disconnected and impoverished. It’s also good to try to develop a greater capacity to be more open with others more often.

Subtypes are important because they are more precise descriptions of your specific mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns, and they clarify what your core motivations and growth opportunities are in an even more nuanced way. Knowing your subtype gives you insight into your most automatic instinctual and emotional energies that constitute central parts of your personality related to survival in the world.

What Now?

The key next steps you can take to start putting the insights of this report into action are to start engaging in very intentional efforts at self-observation.
Your Enneagram type provides you with an excellent guide, or map, for self-observation, so you can start getting a much more conscious sense of what you actually do and why you do it.
The first and main thing you need to do now is to notice the operation of these patterns more often in your life. There are different levels and ways you can do this. You can develop a capacity to self-observe at the “now” moment.
Then you can use the information the Enneagram provides to deepen your self-reflection about how and why these patterns have operated in the past. How might you understand them to gain more insight into yourself? Why do you do the things you do?And how can you begin to envision your growth path to break out of the unconscious patterns and be liberated to reach your full potential?
It’s very important that you try not to judge yourself as you begin to observe yourself. Your personality patterns developed as a way of protecting yourself from early on in life, so have compassion for yourself as you learn more about who you are. To deploy the Enneagram to grow, it’s just a matter of seeing your type’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving with a more conscious awareness, and then learning to relax these habitual tendencies in the present moment.
The more you can understand your personality type’s tendencies, the more you can make conscious choices about whether you want to act from old habits or go beyond who you’ve been to be all of who you can be!

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