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I see 8 in you. :cool:

come to the dark side :vader1:

How can you be recruiting?

Last time I checked you hadn't even graduated from the 'junior darkside'

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I think he's saying that you're a four.



Can I be 5 and 9? I have the qualities of both, good and bad... or do all 5s feel like 9s in some way?
 

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I think he's saying that you're a four.
Can I be 5 and 9? I have the qualities of both, good and bad... or do all 5s feel like 9s in some way?

it's possible. I'm pretty certain my tritype is 784 in some order, but for now I'm sticking with 7w8. it makes the most sense
 

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I think he's saying that you're a four.



Can I be 5 and 9? I have the qualities of both, good and bad... or do all 5s feel like 9s in some way?

Opposite. 9s can sometimes feel they're 5s. Educated/intelligent 9s think they're 5s because they have grand ideas but focus is completely different. Here's a decent link, though the source is unknown, however I think it's from the members only section of enneagraminsitute.com
 

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Opposite. 9s can sometimes feel they're 5s. Educated/intelligent 9s think they're 5s because they have grand ideas but focus is completely different. Here's a decent link, though the source is unknown, however I think it's from the members only section of enneagraminsitute.com

The first half is pretty good, the second half... meh.

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A detailed comparison and contrast between Fives and Nines is warranted because so many Nines mistakenly think that they are Fives; typically, the misidentification almost never happens the other way around. Particularly if they are well educated and intelligent, average male Nines tend to think that they are Fives. (As noted in the discussion of Twos, average female Nines tend to think that they are Twos.)

Of all the personality types, Nines have the most difficulty identifying which type they are because their sense of self is undefined. Average Nines have little sense of who they are apart from those they have identified with; hence, they are usually at a loss to know where to begin to find their type. (As we have seen, either they think they are Fives or Twos or they see a little of themselves in all the types and make no further effort at identifying themselves. If they have no guidance, Nines in this predicament usually shrug their shoulders and give up on the Enneagram and more important, on acquiring self-knowledge.)

Even relatively healthy Nines still have a somewhat diffused sense of self because it is based on their capacity to be receptive to others—and to be unself-conscious. Moreover, average Nines have problems identifying their type because doing so arouses anxiety, something completely anathema to them. Whatever disturbs their peace of mind is ignored or met with a blind eye. They avoid introspection in favor of entertaining comforting notions about themselves, whatever they may be. Maintaining an undefined understanding of themselves, and thus, maintaining their emotional comfort, is more important to average Nines than acquiring deeper insights.

None of this is true of Fives, and the two types are opposites in many ways. Nines are gentle, easygoing, patient, receptive, and accommodating, whereas Fives are intense, strong-minded, argumentative, contentious, and highly resistant to the influence of others. Nines like people and trust them; perhaps at times they are too trusting. By contrast, average Fives are suspicious of people and are anything but trusting, perhaps at times too cynical and resistant. Both types are among the three withdrawn types of the Enneagram, and (as we have seen with Fours and Nines), there are genuine similarities between them, although only superficial ones (PT, 433-36).

Despite their similarities, the main point of confusion for Nines arises around the notion of "thinking." Nines think they are Fives because they think they have profound ideas: therefore, they must be Fives.

Part of the problem stems from the fact that individuals of both types can be highly intelligent, although as a group Fives are probably the most intelligent of the nine personality types. (When Nines are highly intelligent, they can be as brilliant as Fives, although their intellectual prowess is compartmentalized. They are brilliant at work but unfocused and inattentive everywhere else, whereas Fives are focused and attentive everywhere all the time.) Although intelligence can be manifested in different ways, being intelligent does not make Nines intellectuals, just as thinking does not make them thinkers. As we have seen, the pattern as a whole (and the motivations) must be taken into consideration, not one or two traits in isolation. Since all the types think in one way or another, thinking alone, with no further distinction, is not a sufficient basis for a personality diagnosis.

The fundamental difference between the thinking of Nines and that of Fives is that Nines are impressionistic, involved with generalities, imaginative ruminations, and fanciful situations. Nines typically do not concern themselves with details, nor are they usually good at following up once they have acted. By contrast, the thinking of Fives is highly focused, penetrating, and almost microscopic in the narrowness of its frame of reference. Fives love details, losing themselves in research, scholarship, and complex intellectual pursuits. They think in depth, concentrating so much that they block out other perceptions (eventually to their detriment). By contrast, even brilliant Nines tend to have problems concentrating; they also tend to lose interest quickly and to allow their attention to drift off when they become bored or anxious.

Nines tend to spin grand, sweeping, idealistic solutions to problems, while Fives tend to speculate on problems, then on the problems that their problems have raised, then on those problems, ad infinitum. Nines may be gifted storytellers, able to communicate simply and effectively to others, even to children. Fives usually communicate to only a few or keep their ideas entirely to themselves. (Moreover, their ideas may be so complicated that they are difficult to communicate to all but other specialists.) Nines usually do not consider the consequences of their actions; Fives are extremely interested in predicting the consequences of every action. Nines idealize the world and create imaginary worlds in which good always triumphs over evil;

Fives analyze the real world and create horrifying scenarios in which evil usually triumphs over good or exists in tension with it. Nines simplify; Fives complexify. Nines look to the past; Fives to the future. Nines are fantasists; Fives are theorists. Nines are disengaged; Fives are detached. Nines are utopians; Fives are nihilists. Nines are optimists; Fives are pessimists. Nines are open; Fives are resistant. Nines are non-threatening and nonjudgmental; Fives are defensive and contentious. Nines are at peace; Fives are in tension. Nines end in dissociation; Fives in paranoia.

Comparisons and contrasts such as these could be multiplied almost indefinitely because, while these two types are such opposites, they are also paradoxically similar. What they have in common is the tendency to ask "What if?" questions. The difference is in their response: Nines tend to ruminate on their fantasies, while Fives attempt to see if their ideas could come true. The Nine's ideas usually involve a single insight that, while true enough, is often impractical and goes nowhere. For instance, a Nine may think that the way to world peace is "for everyone to love one another."

While this is doubtlessly true, the problem not addressed is how to get everyone to love one another. A Five wondering about the same problem would write a treatise on world peace after doing exhaustive historical research, eventually erecting a grand theory of peace. (The Five's ideas may also come to nothing, but at least they are pursued, and practical results may eventually come of them.) To give another example, a Nine might wonder what it is like to fly and make up a story about it. A Five might wonder how to fly and invent an airplane or do research on birds or design a rocket.

In short, Nines have an active fantasy life and think that they have deep thoughts. Sometimes they do, of course, although the thinking of intelligent, well-educated Nines tends to be in the direction of simplifying reality and cutting through abstruse thickets to get at the kernel of truth beneath. Nines tend to see things the way they want them to be; they reinterpret reality to make it more comforting and less threatening, simpler and less daunting. By contrast, the thinking of Fives is complex. By attempting to arrive at a grand unifying theory that encompasses and explains everything, average Fives end up involved in increasing complications and abstractions. Their thought is focused on specifics, often highly technical and concerned with foresight and the consequences of acting one way rather than another. But at an extreme, Fives risk seeing reality not as it is but as a projection of their preoccupations and fears. They distort their perceptions of reality so that reality seems more negative and threatening than it actually is.

Nines feel at ease in the world, and their style of thinking reflects their unconscious desire to merge with the world. Fives are afraid of being overwhelmed by the world, and their intellectual efforts are an unconscious defense against the world, an attempt to master it intellectually. There is a world of difference between these two types since they see the world so differently.
 

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The first half is pretty good, the second half... meh.

Copypasta!

Anything in particular? I think it makes a mistake with regards to the intelligence bit and makes 9s sound a little floopy woopy and whimsical, but the general emphasis of 5s being neurotically focused nutjobs and 9s being more grand, intuitive, and holistic in their thinking is true.
 

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Anything in particular? I think it makes a mistake with regards to the intelligence bit and makes 9s sound a little floopy woopy and whimsical, but the general emphasis of 5s being neurotically focused nutjobs and 9s being more grand, intuitive, and holistic in their thinking is true.

Pretty much what you said. I'd add that not all 5s are focused on details. Sure one can get very focused on something and become very aware of every little detail; but any type can do that, but won't be that way all the time. Otherwise we'd have to boot a lot of NTPs out of Type 5. The thing sounds like an IxTJ wrote it. There can be Feelers as 5s, and Thinkers as 9s.

I'd write more but thinkin' hurts my brain and I'm gonna go draw a pretty flower in MS Paint and stare at it till I feel better.
 
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Pretty much what you said. I'd add that not all 5s are focused on details. Sure one can get very focused on something and become very aware of every little detail; but any type can do that, but won't be that way all the time. Otherwise we'd have to boot a lot of NTPs out of Type 5. The thing sounds like an IxTJ wrote it. There can be Feelers as 5s, and Thinkers as 9s.

I'd write more but thinkin' hurts my brain and I'm gonna go draw a pretty flower in MS Paint and stare at it till I feel better.

I think you're an INFP.
 

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This thread is a great way to boil some passive aggression.
 

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I think you're an INFP.

You know what I find funny about Type 9? They have ISFPs and INFPs all over it, but look at how Type 9 is often described: "Of all the personality types, Nines have the most difficulty identifying which type they are because their sense of self is undefined."

Types running on Fi have poor sense of self and are undefined? Whaaaaaa?
 

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You know what I find funny about Type 9? They have ISFPs and INFPs all over it, but look at how Type 9 is often described: "Of all the personality types, Nines have the most difficulty identifying which type they are because their sense of self is undefined."

Types running on Fi have poor sense of self and are undefined? Whaaaaaa?
'tis the empathy factor. Strong empathy can result in poor boundaries in individuality. it isn't that they don't have strong personality, but they can feel other people's feelings so much , they aren't sure what they feel. At least that's my theory.
 

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Pretty much what you said. I'd add that not all 5s are focused on details. Sure one can get very focused on something and become very aware of every little detail; but any type can do that, but won't be that way all the time. Otherwise we'd have to boot a lot of NTPs out of Type 5. The thing sounds like an IxTJ wrote it. There can be Feelers as 5s, and Thinkers as 9s.

I'd write more but thinkin' hurts my brain and I'm gonna go draw a pretty flower in MS Paint and stare at it till I feel better.

I don't think we'd have to boot them out, but I'd simply say that non 5s see details while 5s see the fulcrum of an idea. What others see as details, 5s see as a data point layered with consequences, meaning, implications, divergences which must be accounted for. Note, this isn't saying only 5s have this ability[I wouldn't necessarily even call it an ability] and that they're always right when they're doing it, but that they're compelled to think this way because of their fixation to the world [the world must be understood to be controlled]. To others, it's just not instinctually, mentally, or emotionally important enough to worry about such "details."

I smiled when I wrote this, because my reply itself is an illustration of the different thinking between the two types ;)
 

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'tis the empathy factor. Strong empathy can result in poor boundaries in individuality. it isn't that they don't have strong personality, but they can feel other people's feelings so much , they aren't sure what they feel. At least that's my theory.

Agreed. I think they kind of project a lot (probably for the better, rather than the worse though).
 
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You know what I find funny about Type 9? They have ISFPs and INFPs all over it, but look at how Type 9 is often described: "Of all the personality types, Nines have the most difficulty identifying which type they are because their sense of self is undefined."

Types running on Fi have poor sense of self and are undefined? Whaaaaaa?

It's a pair of docs!
 

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'tis the empathy factor. Strong empathy can result in poor boundaries in individuality. it isn't that they don't have strong personality, but they can feel other people's feelings so much , they aren't sure what they feel. At least that's my theory.

That ain't my problem!

I don't think we'd have to boot them out, but I'd simply say that non 5s see details while 5s see the fulcrum of an idea. What others see as details, 5s see as a data point layered with consequences, meaning, implications, divergences which must be accounted for. Note, this isn't saying only 5s have this ability[I wouldn't necessarily even call it an ability] and that they're always right when they're doing it, but that they're compelled to think this way because of their fixation to the world [the world must be understood to be controlled]. To others, it's just not instinctually, mentally, or emotionally important enough to worry about such "details."

I smiled when I wrote this, because my reply itself is an illustration of the different thinking between the two types ;)

I liked this explanation a lot better.
It's a pair of docs!

I have a pair of socks.
 

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Which types are the INTPs? Do they exist?
 
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