You Are Most Like type 7:
The Enthusiast
Enneagram type 7 is the restless explorer. As a Type 7, you always go after whatever makes you feel alive. You are like Pandora’s Box: no one knows what’s coming next. Spontaneous, versatile, and highly stimulated Sevens are up to new and intense things.
CORE DESIRE:
To be satisfied.
CORE FEAR:
Being deprived.
Enneagram 7: Overview
Imagine one of those typical quiet Sundays when nothing happens and everything seems as deserted as ghost towns in western movies. Well, Type 7s’ lives are the complete opposite. Even in a desert you can find something to do or goals to achieve. But sometimes the emotion involved in finding the oasis can make other sources of water go unnoticed. Despite this, Sevens know it’s worth it. Like a butterfly, you flutter around chasing beauty and joy. Life is a plethora of experiences and the Enthusiast wants them all. You’ve got a thirst for life, but due to your lack of balance, Sevens end up never getting satisfied.
What Motivates you?
Satisfaction and joy. Life is beautiful, mysterious, and infinite. In some way, Enneagram Type 7s can’t stand the idea of leaving this world without seeing everything and finding what’s out there. Every single moment of pain is even more painful if you think it’s a waste of time. As a Seven fighting against these feelings, anxiety escalates in your mind just like King Kong scaled the Empire State Building. Actions are slower than thoughts, which in the Enthusiasts’ case seem to travel on a bullet train. Very used to that rhythm, your thoughts can lose track since you don’t really know what to pay attention to first. Everything seems so amazing and valuable!
Always dancing to Celia Cruz’s song, Enneagram Type 7s feel like life is a carnival and pain goes away just by singing or thinking about newer and more challenging ideas. It’s such a pity that you need to sleep, huh? C’mon evolution!
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How do you think?
Let’s go back to the King Kong’s scene. Enneagram 7s may be wondering why on earth that would be useful. And you’re right; it’s not. At all. However, it is important that as a Seven you understand how obsessed you can be with doing only useful things. Relax and keep reading, Seven. Back to the scene. There is something we can highlight: the Empire State of Mind. With Type 7s’ highly stimulated, resourceful, and out-of-hand mind, every seed seems to grow in its soil. But, seeds can also perish as you go for another crazy idea that very same seed brought to your mind. Experiences are the wind that blows through Type 7s’ minds; you feel easily amazed by worldly things. The Enthusiasts’ eyes, like the ones of a scientist, observe everything around with an honest thirst for knowledge. “Welcome to the circus of life!” said the doctor who once brought a Seven to this world. Well, in reality the doctor had said, “circle”, but in Seven’s enthusiasm and excitement upon its arrival, it obviously misheard it!
90%
very high
CURIOUS
You’re energetic and always generate new ideas
30%
very high
FOCUSED
You have a hard time trying to focus
65%
very high
RISK TAKER
You can be impulsive
How do you love?
Love can be the most attractive thing for Enneagram type 7s. It feels like the first love, when a life story becomes a movie watched in the front row seat, filled with all those incredible feelings as “Fireworks” by Katy Perry plays in the background. This is what 7s look like getting lost in fields of love, finding everything running fast and intense like the trilogy of “Before Sunrise.” 7s have love stories like this and should be glad.
You are a huge fan of love since it represents the plenitude of life and it gives you unbelievable shots of energy to face life as it should be faced. But as soon as your idealization approaches reality, you can feel disappointed and alone. It’s hard to compromise and stand by something that’s not exactly as you imagined.
Enneagram Wings
Enneagram 7 Wing 6:
The Entertainer
This type is the joker of the group, the most childlike. Like a good 7, you are experience-oriented, but the 6 influence gives you the ability to go slower and create bonds with people. You love to fill up your schedules and check out everything that life has to offer. If you’re in good company, that’s even better. But when it comes to focus and specific expertise, you feel troubled. Learning to settle down and commit to one thing is one of the hardest things for you to do.
Enneagram 7 Wing 8:
The Realist
This subtype is as excited about living as the 7s but with the same aggressive touch when it comes to reaching your goals as 8s. Dynamic as you are, you go through life with a clear mind. Pragmatic and task-focused, you choose a target and go for it. Life is a source of abundance, and the realist wants to experience it all. The problem is when, as a 7, you can’t satisfy your appetite. With the determination the 8s give you, staying in the present—here and now—is the best thing to do.
The Average Seven
In the average state, it’s easy to get excited with new projects. Sevens’ minds picture incredibly funny scenarios, things you get to try, places you want to go to, and so on. Life is promising. This gets Type 7s high for a while, but everything that goes up must come down, eventually. You hate the low downs, the flat zones. So, as soon as you start feeling trapped by boredom or time, you take a deep breath and run back like thunder. The good thing is that your sparkling energy usually takes you to interesting places where your eyes—trained to see opportunities and pleasure everywhere—always find nurturing experiences you can learn from. If as an Enneagram 7 you allow yourself to stare, great things can grow. Your agile mind, always looking for beauty and pleasure, is able to create those experiences too.
The Healthy Seven
When the bike is OK, when the chain is lubed up, and the brakes work well, it’s time for Type 7s to adventure down the chosen trail. You just need to pedal up and you’ll come back home like E.T. With the spell that made Sevens see light where there were only reflections broken, you live in a mirage. Although scary to consider, surrendering often brings exactly what you are fighting for. Thanks to the Enthusiasts’ magnificent awareness, you are capable of feeling wisdom and joy just where you are. That does not make you settle, but value every stage as a destination. Finally, Type 7s meet and enjoy peace. No more anxiety surrounding all the things you are missing. You’ve finally chosen which aspect of life to embody without trying to live all of them at once. You feel grateful, and everything seems like an open field.
The Unhealthy Seven
Just a little swipe is enough to go from the healthy state to the unhealthy one. It’s always best to be wary and avoid speeding up on a bike with broken brakes. Type 7s know what enrolling in a lot of activities feels like, going from one activity to the other while life passes by. Time becomes something one uses up and not something one is given, just like a fork is a tool used to eat and is unable to feed one by itself. For Sevens, It’s easy to forget your priorities while the clock is ticking, so you end up losing sight of what you want or desire, who you want to be, and what your limits are. Like time, everything is relative, so you find you are stepping on your shadow’s shadow just to run more quickly away from it. Observing from afar, one might think Sevens are escaping from it; however, in reality, you are actually running towards it.
Tips to Help You Grow:
You are not Forest, so stop running (unless you decide that’s very important to you). Despite your mind’s ability to expand and your impressive craving for life, it’s important you establish priorities. Believe in the potential of your decisions. Sometimes you fill your schedule with different activities as you wish you were 10 different people at the same time. But which one of them is aligned with the future you want to live in? Find what you excel at and study it, and dedicate yourself to it with all the passion that characterizes you.
I know that the exciting flow of new ideas makes you feel like you’re at Disneyland. But, before you scream “YES!”, please remember the actual time and effort things take to be accomplished. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and monumental things last for generations. So, I bet if you find something that you are passionate about you would want to look at it closely like a biologist looking at each detail of flowers and frogs with a magnifying glass. At a slower pace, you’ll be able to appreciate what’s around you, to discover precious information about the world and about you.
Your Main Challenges: How to address them?
FOCUS
Visualize how you want to feel and start to make conscious changes to achieve that. You may need to do things you’ve never done before.
MEDITATE
Get some air. Meditation and conscious breathing can help you manage anxiety and be kind to yourself.
GRATITUDE
Being thankful for what we have is a great exercise to value the present and the past. This will fill you with an abundance of gratitude.
How To Be The Best Version Of The yourself?
Pain doesn’t let me be me all the time. How can I better deal with it?
We are made of every little thing that happens to us and how we deal with it. This especially pertains to how we decide to cope with our pain. There is an unlimited source of self-discovery there too. If you only identify yourself with joy and excitement, times of sadness or distress it will be tough on you, which might get worse due to the unfamiliarity and uncertainty. That pain is part of you, too. Allow yourself to view the pictures created by the nostalgic self inside of you. I’m sure there is something that needs some attention and is blocking you from making it right.
Focus? That’s for cameras.
Yes, you’re right, dear 7. But don’t you see the similarity? Allow me to explain: You love beautiful and incredible things, you love to share amazing experiences with other people, even more if you are a 7 with a 6 wing. Your definition of life is constantly defined by the way you look at it. That’s something that happens to all of us, but your speciality is to see an abundance of opportunities everywhere and get excited by that. But, like cameras that convert transient moments into eternal shots, the photo’s composition will be determined by your focus. Even the most wonderful landscape can’t be enjoyed without the right focus. Focusing will organize your experience and give you the capability to act with more impact throughout life. Do you want to do something for the world? Focus! Your energy needs to be channeled!
I’m afraid of dying without doing all the things I want to do. Help me!
If it was up to you, you’d do different and extraordinary things every day. At the same time you want to play the guitar and be as great as Slash, but you also want to be the best chef and travel the world with Gordom Ramsey. You play the guitar and learn how to cook, but suddenly it seems like a great idea to start learning Japanese. Frustration is inevitable in this lifestyle. So it’s best if you complete cycles. Try to slow down. When you start to speed up, stop. Breathe and look within yourself to learn what’s going on inside of you. By trying to do a little bit of everything, you might end up doing nothing. Complete your tasks, and try to focus while doing them. Enjoy the process. Steady steps will lead you where you need to be. And you’ll become an expert at specific fields. If you want to be a chef, well, let other people be the guitar hero. Enjoy listening to guitar concerts; inspire yourself to leave your mark with your abilities. I bet you can.
Will I feel satisfied with my life some day? And if I will, can you tell me when exactly? I want to put it on my agenda.
Ok, it’s going to be tomorrow. Or the next day. It’s always going to be a future date if you expect to find satisfaction on the outside. But satisfaction only comes when you’re aware of the present. You might be living the experience of your dreams, yet don’t even notice it if you’re worried about the abstraction of happiness. In the movie of your life, the audience screams at you, “Hey! Wake up! Don’t miss this chance!” The present is a plethora of experiences to live, more nurturing and consistent than any fleeting pleasure. How can you reconnect to yourself? Don’t start anything new for a week, take your time to watch your life, and give yourself a break to discover what you are scared of. And repeat slowly: I’m not late to get anywhere.
Compatibility with Other Types
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