Awesome!!! Thanks for the insight.
You're most welcome~
Do you recommend that one as the better? I ask this because I bought Type Talk and Please Understand Me II, and in the end I got all the same information but in better depth by buying Personality Type: An Owner's Manual. I didn't want to waste money buying mediocre books, lol.
It's my Enneagram Holy Text, if you will. I believe Ezra has been pimping it from the start. I concur, I pimp it out too. I can't compare to other books, however, as it was the one and only book I bought and it was more than insightful for me. I did peer through it before purchasing. It's truly an indepth monster. It'll eat you out
Amazon should have an excerpt or something, but the "Search inside Book" thingie on the side won't work for me anymore for any book -.-'' Try it if you can. I suspect though it won't be different from the page I put before. *shrugs* Buy the book~~... #___#''
So if I am understanding right, a healthy 4 can extend out to inherit some 1 characteristics? I would say that I try to impress people more by trying to show them that I am unique, but I do like to show my integrity as well, but not to as much of an extent.
Not exactly so. It's not that you inherit traits, it's that you exhibit them, I'd say. I'm relating a chunk from the book on Direction of Disintegration. When a 4 shifts---> 2 "it manifests when we are in a period of increased stress or uncertainty. When we have pushed the strategy of our own type as far as it can go (....), and it is not improving our situation or getting what we want, we will unconsciously start to behave like the type in our Direction of Disintegration. ....this is called
acting out .....tend to be unconscious and compulsive, although they are not necessarily immediately destructive......." And a lot more on that, but I'm sure you'll be saying "that's me!" Well, there's more of you in the book, so go get it! lol
I'll add to that, for myself, when I disintegrate it happens after a period of withdrawal. I want to connect to people again and maybe I come off too strong with the "I wanna help you!" (btw, just came off a withdrawal so I'm probably doing it right now lmao
At least I can recognise it for what it is
). I think it's because we might not now how to relate after being so couped up inside or we feel as though we were so selfish/indulgent and try to rectify it. Does this seem similiar for you?
Speaking from experience, I loved being called different and weird in a cool-freaky way and special. I also thought highly of being 'myself and no one else' and of integrity too. I smote bullies as a kid whenever I had the chance and then turned them into my friends ^_^''
I took the test on the webpage you linked to and I typed as a 4. I actually prefer that test over others I have taken. It was nice, brief, and informative about the other types.
They have another 15 question test beginning with each Type. Just as short, sweet.
I use a software called Character Pro 5 that helps you create fictional characters by using the enneagram, which helps me create realistic, consistent characters for fiction. I guess writing as a creative outlet is a very 4-like attribute?
I don't know how 4-like that is but I want it
Although, I prefer to discover people or create people on my own, the tool seems a nice help.
I'm sure if I'm a 4 I would be a 5-wing, because the 4w3 description sounds nothing like me.
As from the Holy Text, though it's not all of it:
4w3: The Aristrocrat when
Healthy will combine creativity and ambition, the desire for self-improvement and an eye toward achieving goals, often involving personal advancement. More social than the people of the other subtype and want to be both succesfull and distinctive.
4w5: The Bohemian when
Healthy tends to be extremely creativite, combining emotionality and introspection with perceptivenesss and originality. Less concerned with acceptance and status [[less does not equate zero lol]]. Highly personal and idiosyncratic in their self-expression, creating more for themselves than for an audience.
Then they have the Average states for both Subtypes. I won't even
touch The Instinctual Variants but titled they are: The Self-Perservation Instinct, The Social Instinct and The Sexual Instinct (and no, it's not like that or we'd all want it~~)
I believe you will say 4w5: The Bohemian!! MUAHAHAHA!