'It depends whether you're more of a weirdo or a nerd, flippantly speaking. 5w4s have loose, even disjointed trains of thought that often make their writing styles intriguing but difficult to follow....|||That's fair enough, an introvert is an introvert regardless of instinctual stack. In my case I do spend my time collecting (generally fictional or creative) ideas on the internet, rather than seeking...|||Hm, I see what you mean, but I think my way of experiencing it falls under SP/SX rather than SX/SP (both of which I think can have a burnout cycle at average health levels). If the hungry ghost is...|||Yeah, I'm going to root for the null hypothesis. I'm not saying that cultural changes don't happen (different genres and influences coming and going, the rise of the internet, etc.), but I find these...|||Are you more suspicious of the Four or the Nine fix? I can imagine how a Five or Nine could struggle to identify with a Two or Three fix even if they were motivated by a desire for love or...|||Based on the little available material on tritypes, it looks like the 459 is meant to struggle with reaching out to others and expressing themselves instead of living in their own worlds...|||Openness: 43 Conscientiousness: 8 Extraversion: 4 Agreeableness: 39 Neuroticism: 91  Meh.|||What's a wing to begin with? At least in the beginner's material, I don't see much Ti-heavy explanation of this stuff.  The wing descriptions I've seen kind of re-interpret the wing type to match...|||I wouldn't mind being challenged either. Is it a rite of passage?|||I pretty much came from the MBTI community having settled on INTP, and then straight to Type Five. I haven't changed my mind yet, which is alright if a bit dull. I think SP/SX and 549 were my...|||They're alright. I relate most to the needs of Types Five and Nine, a little bit to Six as well. I do dislike the suggestion that Eights have the right to 'scream, curse, and stomp around'. No, not...|||(SP/SX) I perceive myself as having frequent dry spells of passion. I want to feel the high of a new idea, activity, etc., but once I find something I tend to burn out my capacity to enjoy it...|||Medium. Yeah, I'd say all of those traits apply to me. I'm likely to stay in the average health levels, but I also vacillate up and down enough that I won't get stuck in the same mood or energy level...|||Don't the Fauvres have this concept of the tritype archetypes having their own holistic set of characteristics (e.g. the 279 is the triple-positive archetype, and therefore 279s of any core type have...|||A fair amount. It's one of my dominant negative emotions along with fear (and boredom/anhedonia?), although they ebb and flow a lot. I often recall the little mistakes and embarrassments that I've...|||Inferior Si, though? That doesn't sound right for him. Tertiary Si is a better fit. A probable example of a Ne-dom scientist would be Feynman, who comes across as less laid-back than Einstein. ...|||Ah, sorry, 'objective' was the wrong word. I understand that Ti has an idiosyncratic way of looking at the world, but it seems like Ti-Fe should view the self as a specific instance of the human...|||So this is my attempt to re-summarise what you described in my own terms:  1. By situating myself within systems of thought (whether from psychology, metaphysics, the natural sciences, etc.), I...|||Could you elaborate on this? In my mind it comes across as a 5w4 whose wing has overshadowed their core type somehow, by which I mean having most in common with the deep end of 5w4. With both types...|||What principled reasons make wings a less controversial concept than tritypes, other than tradition? The apparent distinction to me is that wings are more empirical (these types are adjacent on the...|||Really? I get why you might complain about the USA's social fabric being distorted or imperfect, but the suggestion that America (as a whole) 'is' a SP/SX or SX/SP culture - as opposed to some...|||Well, mind-body dualism has gone out of the window with the advent of neuropsychology, which is pretty bad news for spiritualism in general. Other forms of mysticism (like some Buddhist sects) have...|||Alex Jones explains the Sexual 8w7 to us:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4GYyJwYjQ|||Introverted (I) 77.42% Extroverted (E) 22.58% Intuitive (N) 67.74% Sensing (S) 32.26% Thinking (T) 58.06% Feeling (F) 41.94% Perceiving (P) 58.82% Judging (J) 41.18%  Your type is: INTP.  Type...|||Yeah, I don't really form social bonds, and you realise it becomes a form of limitation itself to not have those attachments because people rely on their close friends and being in the loop so much....|||I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome as a child. Apparently I was a pretty classic example. I had a bunch of phobias, anxiety and OCD compulsions on top of that, which were worsened or maybe even...|||Type 5 and 539/593. Also, their instincts test came out with SP/SX. I'm almost bored with personality tests giving me Type Five and INTP. Based on the number of Six options I picked, my wing would...|||The webcomic XKCD is a pretty good example of this connection, because it projects a lot of amusement, humour, whimsy and curiosity, but it's also very geeky and intellectual. The creator Randall...|||I've been sampling the Stackemup interviews (and a few other videos) for 5w4 and 5w6 - for which I hope the signal-to-noise ratio isn't too bad - and the gist I'm getting is that the 5w6 is more...|||On the subject of unhealthy types, I found this table describing schizoid personality disorder to read an awful lot like a standard Type Five description, except with all the parts about knowledge...|||Brains was brusque and undiplomatic about it. But it was also rude for Jonneh to brush off his honest attempt to help by pointing to a test result. That's like saying his analysis is worth less than...|||Hm, I like your approach. Alas, neither line of disintegration rings much of a bell, although I'd say Three if I had to pick. I suppose if I'm becoming scattered, I would tend to choose distractions...|||Well, I mean... it's difficult to know who to compare with. On the internet I'll sometimes see people and think, You're incisive and thorough, but you're being very reductionist and hung up on the...|||What's the best way to distinguish between 5w4 and 5w6? I'm developing a confident sense of how the two ends of that spectrum seem to manifest in others, but my understanding is pretty muddled in...|||All of the female faces except SP/SO and SO/SP look attractive to me. Of the rest, SO/SX draws the most immediate attention but seems about equal to SP/SX and SX/SP in sum, while SX/SO is the least...|||Closer to the original topic of this thread, I like the board culture in the Enneagram section best. The lower amount of spam (arguably fun, but whatever) plays a part, although it's also that MBTI...|||It's implicit in the terms of the question, which connote that the object of the attraction is somehow risky or mysterious. Eight is the lowest common denominator, as they are the most likely to...|||Surely a great number of people, when asked about how to attain fulfillment, would talk about things presumably related to the social instinct (helping others, raising families, forming valuable...|||I don't think IQ is a useful concept outside of specialised applications, but like, you can just forget about the IQ stuff and think of this thread being about a handy visualisation technique that...|||An awful lot of Ti-Ne, I think, but also with a distinct 5w4 flavour.  I wouldn't debate the subject if I didn't think there weren't anything to it. I have done a little bit of IMS before (as well...|||Like everything else, doesn't it come down to whether you use Jungian types (Fe/Te vs. Ne/Se) or the Big Five correlations (Conscientiousness)?|||Me: 5w6 SP/SX (like a 60/40 split between Six and Four).  Um, I can't exactly type people just by looking at them. I think the biggest type-related factor is being less attracted to SX-lasts. I...|||When you have two withdrawn types that are wings of each other, it's difficult to tell them apart. I think both sides of the 4/5 line can be afraid that they are too different from the rest of...|||Now I think about it, I don't get the Type Four concept of identifying with your flaws. Although I'm more aligned with the Six-ish (?) approach of hiding and protecting your flaws, it's not the...|||Alright, I think I get what you mean. I wasn't putting anywhere near enough weight on the debriefing section, and this is conceivably a result of bias on my part, in terms of assuming that the...|||I don't really buy the pole-bridging theory behind image-streaming. The brain isn't a road network that needs bigger motorways to increase capacity. The general pattern (with a few exceptions) is...|||Type Eight. I don't mean Eights themselves, but the themes associated with them. I don't know why, it's probably my privileged life so far, but there is just something deeply silly and amusing...|||I think ASD can strengthen the fear of being overwhelmed by the world and being too incompetent to cope with it, because you don't naturally 'get' situations as easily (and may also suffer from...|||I relate to the SP/SX instinctual stack in itself, but not much to the hermit-like SP Five descriptions (a bit more to the SX Five and not at all to the SO Five subtypes; I actually dislike the SO...|||It's a counter-intuitive statement, yeah, but I'm thinking more SF Bay Area than Casanova. My impression of the polyamory community as they present themselves on the internet is that they have a...'