Finally, for a Four to truly grow they need to stop putting off work or artistic/creative projects until they are “in the mood”. When able to find this balance Individualists will be able to create and maintain deep meaningful relationships in all areas of life. Friends, coworkers, and partners of Fours can help them by being around them but not getting drawn into their emotional highs and lows. You are able to regulate and stabilize them. If you are a Four remember that you are more than your feelings.
Because they find something lacking in themselves they are constantly trying different identities to fill that void.
Depression drives them to alienate themselves from others.įours try on identities like someone trying on suits in preparation for a big job interview.
Full of shame they put a wedge between themselves and anyone trying to help them. Morbid thoughts permeate their minds as their dreams fail and they fall into self-contempt. Constantly comparing themselves to others, they find themselves lacking. They know that they don’t have to be something special to win approval from others.Īt their worst, Fours become self-destructive, hopeless, and filled with hatred for themselves. They have superior emotional range and are able to avoid acting on every feeling they have. Their creativity enables them to turn their experiences into value for others. They focus internally on their own feelings but have difficulty understanding others feelings.Īt their best, Fours are inspired, immensely creative expressing themselves and the world they see. Within the triad, Fours are the most introspective. Because of this, they are more image-conscious than the other triads. Those in the Heart Triad are do not believe they are worthy of love so they take on personas to attain it. This triad is primarily motivated by their feelings.
Types Two, Three, and Four constitute the Heart Triad. The Enneagram is used in business management training to better understand interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. While each type is unique it is related to other types through the circle connecting the type to each of it’s wings and the lines or arrows in the center connecting the type to the ones it imitates in times of stress or growth. The Enneagram of Personality, or just the Enneagram, is a representation of personalities using a geometric figure, also called an enneagram (little e), to express nine interconnected personality types.