THE INVESTIGATOR

Enneagram Type 5

The 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.

Basics

• Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable.
• Basic Desire: To feel valuable and worthwhile
• Enneagram Five with a Four-Wing: "The Iconoclast"
• Enneagram Five with a Six-Wing: "The Problem Solver"

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.

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

Famous 5's:

• Siddartha Gautama Buddha
• Albert Einstein
• Oliver Sacks
• 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
• Ursula K. LeGuin
• Clive Barker
• Bill Gates
• Mark Zuckerberg
• Glenn Gould
• James Joyce
• Jane Goodall
• A.H. Almaas
• Eckhart Tolle
• Meredith Monk
• John Cage
• Kurt Cobain
• David Byrne
• Peter Gabriel
• Laurie Anderson
• Jane Siberry
• Trent Reznor
• Thom Yorke, lead singer of the band Radiohead
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Marlene Dietrich
• Stanley Kubrick
• David Cronenberg
• Werner Herzog
• Tim Burton
• David Lynch
• David Fincher
• Jodie Foster
• Gary Larson, creator of the comic “The Far Side”
• Annie Liebovitz
• Bobby Fischer
• Julian Assange, founder of “Wikileaks”
• Aaaron Swartz

Fictional 5's:

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

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