Enneagram Dynamics:
Personal and Interpersonal

© Richard Pinneau, 2004.
 

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Nicknames:

Romantic • Connoisseur • Individualist

 

"I have the simplest of tastes; I'm easily satisfied with the best." —Oscar Wilde

"(Sophisticated) customers will be turned off by seeing (plebian items). ...I'd rather satisfy them than the yokels... It's our job to educate the customers as well as to sell to them." —Stanley Marcus (of Neiman-Marcus)

"Give the customer what Tiffany likes, because what it likes, the public ought to like." —Walter Hoving

"Anyone can build market share... if you set your price low enough... it won't get you anywhere around here." —David Packard

Likely examples:

Alan Watts

Marlon Brando

Dorothy Parker

Oscar Wilde

Judy Garland

John Keats

Dostoevsky

Sylvia Plath

Isadora Duncan

Edna St. V. Millay

David Packard

w/seven-wing:

Peter Tchaikovsky

Tennessee Williams

Marcel Proust

Walt Whitman

Paul Simon

Gustav Mahler

Martha Graham

Harold Pintner

w/nine-wing:

Virginia Woolf

J. D. Salinger

Edgar Allan Poe

Hermann Hesse

William Blake

Joni Mitchell

Ingmar Bergman

Bob Dylan

Soren Kierkegaard

Summary:

FOURs are the most sensitive appreciators of art, beauty, and creative expression, and this keeps them reaching toward ideals they can envision but which may be close to impossible to achieve. They deeply value the passion and pathos required for such sensitivity — which can lead others to complain they are moody or hard to please. But FOURs could reply that they are easily satisfied — by exquisite results!

With 3-wing ('aristocrat'):

With 5-wing ('bohemian'):

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Qualities and preferences:                          

Need alone time.

Intense emotions, relationships.

Dramatic. Eccentric. Discontent. Melancholic. Unique.

Value deep feelings.

Exquisite taste.

Follow own rules.

How to take them:

When.

Slogans or catch-phrases:

"I feel so bad since you've gone. It's almost like having you here." —anonymous

"Nothing is harder to bear than a series of good years." —Goethe

 

 

Appreciated by others for:

Sensitivity and exquisite taste.

Depth of passion.

 

Less appreciated by others when/if:

Moody.

 

How to make an appeal to them:

Note.

Myers-Briggs likely types:

INF: Introverted-Intuiting-Feeling types

esp.: INFP, INFJ

Introverted, creative, aesthetic.

Stressed by, uncomfortable with, or preferring to avoid:

a.

Creations by or about this type:

The Heart Aroused by David Whyte

Quest for the Best by Stanley Marcus

Get along better with them by:

Be direct.

a.

 

Warning signs of stress:

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Challenges for growth:

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How you can grow from your three-wing:

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Beneath the surface:

ONEs .

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How you can grow from your five-wing:

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In your childhood, background:

Childhood loss or separation is very common among FOURs. The result was often that they incurred a deep sense of being somehow flawed — with the result that they have a powerful drive to discovering some redeeming uniqueness within themselves.

Empowerment from high qualities of one:

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