Enneagram Type 4: The Individualist
The Way of Thinking and Acting
Enneagram Type 4 people have a profound feeling of being abandoned and with that follows a lack of self-esteem, because nobody probably wants to be with them. They are very sensitive and touchy people whose mood varies greatly in the course of a day. They know ecstatic happiness and deep depressing melancholy and often focus on their own and other people's shortcomings. Enneagram Type 4 often handle close relations very well, and they like to leave their personal mark on things they work with.
Contributions:
Enneagram Type 4 are good at understanding other people's feelings as they themselves are familiar with many different kinds of emotions. They use their flair for aesthetics to add their finishing touch as soon as they get an opportunity to leave their personal mark on what they are doing.
Preferences:
Enneagram Type 4 prefer an environment with plenty of room for individual solutions and where they may get appreciation of their special abilities to spot what may be missing.
Resources:
- Creative
- Flair for aestethics
- Understand all emotions
- Sense for the extraordinary
Enneagram Type 4 Change in state of stress:
When you are stressed and feel insecure, you lose touch with your feelings and what you really want. You focus on what you can do for others to become liked again.
Enneagram Type 4 Change when resourceful:
When you are confident and feel resourceful, it is easier for you to keep focused on the issue and get things done in the correct way. You have a tendency for longing and wishing for things you do not have right now.
You may be Enneagram Type 4 if the following sounds familiar to you:
- You have good taste, like the extraordinary, to be something special.
- You are often preoccupied with thoughts about how others see you and interpret their fellings about you.
- You seek what you do not have through intense experience and by unfolding yourself creatively.
- You disapprove of ordinary life and the boredom of 'ordinary' feelings.
- You make ordinary life more exciting with fantasies, artistic display and dramatic inner conceptions.
- You experience a great depth in your emotional life, and you have a great ability to support others in times of crisis.
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