• Type Five: The Investigator
• Type Five, Six Wing: The Problem Solver
• Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable.
• Basic Desire: To be capable and competent
• Key Motivations:
  • Want to possess knowledge
  • to understand the environment
  • to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment
• Examples
  • Albert Einstein
  • John Nash, mathematician and the subject of the book and film "A Beautiful Mind"
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Edvard Munch
  • Georgia O’Keefe
  • Salvador Dali
  • Alberto Giacometti
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Agatha Christie
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Susan Sontag
  • Stephen King
  • Bill Gates
  • Glenn Gould
  • James Joyce
  • Jane Goodall
  • Eckhart Tolle
  • John Cage
  • Kurt Cobain
  • David Byrne
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Laurie Anderson
  • Trent Reznor
  • Thom Yorke, lead singer of the band Radiohead
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Werner Herzog
  • Tim Burton
  • David Lynch
  • Jodie Foster
  • Annie Liebovitz
  • Bobby Fischer
  • Julian Assange, founder of “Wikileaks”
• Positive Traits
  • standing back and viewing life objectively
  • coming to a thorough understanding; perceiving causes and effects
  • my sense of integrity: doing what I think is right and not being influenced by social pressure
  • not being caught up in material possessions and status
  • being calm in a crisis
• Negative Traits
  • being slow to put my knowledge and insights out in the world
  • feeling bad when I act defensive or like a know-it-all
  • being pressured to be with people when I don't want to be
  • watching others with better social skills, but less intelligence or technical skill, do better professionally
• How to get along with me
  • Be independent, not clingy.
  • Speak in a straightforward and brief manner.
  • I need time alone to process my feelings and thoughts.
  • Remember that If I seem aloof, distant, or arrogant, it may be that I am feeling uncomfortable.
  • Make me feel welcome, but not too intensely, or I might doubt your sincerity.
  • If I become irritated when I have to repeat things, it may be because it was such an effort to get my thoughts out in the first place.
  • Don't come on like a bulldozer.
  • Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people's loud music, overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy.

LEVELS

• Healthy Levels
  • Level 1 (At Their Best): Become visionaries, broadly comprehending the world while penetrating it profoundly. Open-minded, take things in whole, in their true context. Make pioneering discoveries and find entirely new ways of doing and perceiving things.
  • Level 2: Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight. Most mentally alert, curious, searching intelligence: nothing escapes their notice. Foresight and prediction. Able to concentrate: become engrossed in what has caught their attention.
  • Level 3: Attain skillful mastery of whatever interests them. Excited by knowledge: often become expert in some field. Innovative and inventive, producing extremely valuable, original works. Highly independent, idiosyncratic, and whimsical.
• Average Levels
  • Level 4: Begin conceptualizing and fine-tuning everything before acting—working things out in their minds: model building, preparing, practicing, and gathering more resources. Studious, acquiring technique. Become specialized, and often "intellectual," often challenging accepted ways of doing things.
  • Level 5: Increasingly detached as they become involved with complicated ideas or imaginary worlds. Become preoccupied with their visions and interpretations rather than reality. Are fascinated by off-beat, esoteric subjects, even those involving dark and disturbing elements. Detached from the practical world, a "disembodied mind," although high-strung and intense.
  • Level 6: Begin to take an antagonistic stance toward anything which would interfere with their inner world and personal vision. Become provocative and abrasive, with intentionally extreme and radical views. Cynical and argumentative.
• Unhealthy Levels
  • Level 7: Become reclusive and isolated from reality, eccentric and nihilistic. Highly unstable and fearful of aggressions: they reject and repulse others and all social attachments.
  • Level 8: Get obsessed yet frightened by their threatening ideas, becoming horrified, delirious, and prey to gross distortions and phobias.
  • Level 9: Seeking oblivion, they may commit suicide or have a psychotic break with reality. Deranged, explosively self-destructive, with schizophrenic overtones. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid Avoidant and Schizotypal personality disorders.

The Intense, Cerebral Type:

• Perceptive
• Innovative
• Secretive
• Isolated

Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation.

At their Best:

• visionary pioneers
• often ahead of their time
• able to see the world in an entirely new way.

The Meaning of the Arrows (in brief):

When moving in their Direction of Disintegration (stress), detached Fives suddenly become hyperactive and scattered at Seven. However, when moving in their Direction of Integration (growth), avaricious, detached Fives become more self-confident and decisive, like healthy Eights

Fictional 5's:

• Fox Mulder from "The X Files"
• Dr. Gregory House from "House, M.D."

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