Fives thirst for information and knowledge and use emotional detachment as a way of

keeping involvement with others to a minimum.

Worldview of Fives - The world has limited resources, so I have to conserve every
resource I have time, money, energy, and more.
Strengths |
analytic
|
objective
|
systematic
|
expert
Development | secretive | detached | autonomous | under-emphasize relationships

Center of Intelligence: Head Center

Head Center Styles | Three Enneagram styles formed as a response to fear
The Head Center contains Enneagram styles Five, Six, and Seven. These three mental styles
share a tendency to engage first in elaborate analysis as a reaction to their common emotion,
fear. Fives respond to fear by withdrawing, retreating into their minds in order to understand.
Sixes react by anticipating worst-case scenarios and devising plans to prevent what could go
wrong. Counterphobic Sixes may not be aware of feeling fearful because they more often rush
headlong into risky situations as a way of assuring themselves that they are not afraid. Sevens
take a different route, quickly moving from fear into pleasurable possibilities. Although most
Sevens do not appear to be fearful, they are actually running from fear and pain an
avoidance reaction. Enneagram style Six is the core style of the three Head Center styles, with
styles Five and Seven being variations of Enneagram style Six.

Core Beliefs

Everything is potentially knowable.

Facts and logic are the only objective source of knowledge.
You can trust the mind; feelings are volatile, subjective, and often overwhelming.

Emotional Patterns

Intellectualization of feelings.
Emotional detachment.

Behaviors
Pursue information and wisdom Cerebrally oriented Calm in a crisis Easily drained
Self-reliant and private
Fives use their minds in a unique way called compartmentalizing, a process by which
they take in and store information using mental categories as though these were file
folders to access later. Fives also compartmentalize people, events, and experiences
for example, their friends may never meet one another. Fives often separate home
from work to such an extent that they rarely discuss their personal lives at work or share
their work lives at home.

Typing Questions for Fives

1. When a situation gets emotional, intense, or overwhelming, do you automatically
disconnect from your feelings of the moment and then reconnect with some of these
later, at a time and place of your choice?
2. Do you observe life rather than being fully engaged in it?
3. Do you create an invisible boundary between yourself and others so that other people
understand they should not approach you unless invited to do so?

Description
Fives search for knowledge and wisdom and avoid intrusion and loss of energy. Symbolized by
the light bulb of mental knowledge, Fives try to accumulate information from which they can
gain insight.
Emotionally detached, private, self-controlled, and highly independent autonomous may be a
more accurate description Fives have an insatiable need to know, particularly about areas
that interest or concern them. Fully understanding how everything works and fits together helps
Fives believe that they are on the path to wisdom, but just as important, accumulating
knowledge helps them feel prepared for the inevitable surprises they would prefer to not
experience. The quest for privacy is a constant among Fives, although the areas they consider
private vary widely. Some Fives like to share their knowledge, while others consider this
proprietary. Some Fives are highly private about what they do in their spare time, while others
consider their age, marital status, and other such personal information to be in the confidential
realm.

All Fives automatically detach from their feelings in the actual moment of an emotional
experience, reactivating some of these feelings later, at a more convenient and private time.
Fives also compartmentalize or isolate aspects of their lives from other parts. However, the
content of what Fives compartmentalize can differ widely. Some Fives compartmentalize their
work life from their home life; others keep their friends separated from one another; and other
Fives keep themselves isolated from other people.
In addition, most Fives are extremely wary of intrusions on their physical space, their time and
energy, and demands for intense interpersonal interactions. Some keep extremely controlled
boundaries and are attached to their seclusion, coming out for more engagement at specifically
selected moments; others are more outgoing and social though the content of their
conversations tends to be information and facts that interest them and are so drawn to lofty
ideals that they can lose interest in everyday life; and some Fives engage primarily with the few
others they completely trust and with whom they feel a special bond.
The Fives interpersonal style is highly self-contained, with little animation in either their voice
tone or body language. They may appear forthcoming about giving information and others less
so, but all Fives appear remote to some degree. Some Fives may be engaging in a way that
attracts others and others less so, but all Fives make it obvious that there are clear boundaries
about what they will discuss and how they will discuss it.
While we can all be emotionally detached and many people enjoy interesting information, for
Fives, the search for knowledge and wisdom and the avoidance of intrusion and loss of energy
is their primary, persistent, and driving motivation.

The Enneagram styles on both sides of your core Enneagram style can also influence your
personality.

Wings are the Enneagram styles on each side of your core Enneagram style. These are
secondary styles of your core personality style, which means that you may also display some
of the characteristics of these Enneagram styles. Wings do not fundamentally change your
Enneagram style; they merely add additional qualities to your core personality. As can be seen
on the Enneagram symbol, Nine and Two are wings for Ones, One and Three are wings for
Twos, Two and Four are wings for Threes, and so forth.

You may have one wing, two wings, or no wings at all. It is also common to have had one wing
be more active when you were younger, and to have had another appear as you matured.
People of the same Enneagram style and identical wings may use their wing qualities
differently. However, the general wing descriptions for all nine Enneagram styles given here
may serve as guidelines to help you explore this aspect of the Enneagram and also help you to
identify your wing or wings.

Wings for Fives

Four Wing | Fives with a Four wing are more emotionally sensitive and expressive and also
have an aesthetic perspective, perhaps engaging in the arts themselves for example, writing
poetry, novels, or screenplays and/or being photographers or artists.
Six Wing | Fives with a Six wing emphasize and engage more readily with teams, tend to
place greater value on loyalty, and may have enhanced intuitive insight. Although many other
Fives can also be quite insightful, their insights come more from putting facts together and
engaging in extensive analysis. When Fives have a Six wing, the insights come more quickly
as the product of instantaneous processing.
The two styles with arrows that point toward and away from your Enneagram style can also
influence your personality.
Arrow lines refer to the two styles on the Enneagram symbol that have arrows pointing away
from or toward your core Enneagram style, and you may show some characteristics of one or
both of these two additional styles. Access to your wings and arrow lines can be beneficial to
you, adding complexity, nuance, and flexibility to your personality, but they do not change your
fundamental style that is, your patterns of thinking and feeling and motivational structure
remain the same.
Arrow lines are best thought of as providing additional resources to our character structure
because it is possible to access the best of both styles; however, they are also referred to as
stress and security points because under stress, a person may move toward the arrow pointing
away from their core style, while when relaxed, the same individual may move in the direction
of the arrow that points to their own core style.

Arrow Lines for Fives

Arrow Line to Seven | Fives with strong access to Seven can be playful and spontaneous, far
more comfortable being in highly visible roles (as if they are actors playing a particular part)
and more highly engaged during social interactions.
Arrow Line from Eight | Fives with strong access to arrow line Eight display more depth of
personal power, are less hesitant and more risk-taking and courageous, and move to action far
more quickly.

There are 3 variations of each Enneagram style, which actually give us 27, not just 9, different
character structures
Enneagram subtypes are an additional element that may affect your personality character
structure. Subtypes are the way in which the particular emotional pattern for each Enneagram
style most frequently manifests in that persons behavior. There are three different subtypes for
each Enneagram style: one subtype manifests the style through a particular behavior related to
issues of self-preservation; another subtype focuses primarily on social relations, often
behavior in response to social groups; the third subtype for each style is more oriented to oneto-one relationships.
Each of the nine Enneagram personality styles comes in three distinct varieties, depending on
which of the three subtypes is dominant. The repeating emotional pattern (referred to as the
passion) of the Enneagram style combines with the dominant subtype to create a
fundamental, driving need (mostly unconscious) that fuels the behavior, feelings, and thoughts
of the personality, yielding 27 distinct character structures (or three versions of each style) that
further elaborate on or present different flavors of the nine Enneagram styles. For most people,
two of the three instincts may be active, with the third less so or dormant.

Three Subtypes for Enneagram Fives | the passion of avarice

All Fives have an intense need to acquire knowledge and wisdom and a similarly strong desire
to avoid intrusion and loss of energy, and they guard and preserve everything that they think
they will need for example, information, physical space, emotional privacy, personal energy,
and resources. There are three distinct ways in which Fives manifest these characteristics.

Self-Preservation Subtype Fives are primarily concerned with being intruded upon and being
overextended physically and energetically. In a sense, they hoard their involvement with others
in the same way they hoard their scarce resources.
Social Subtype Fives want to find and develop strong connections with individuals who share
their super-ideals, but they become disengaged when forced to live in way that is not aligned
with these higher-order beliefs. They focus on the group in search of extraordinary individuals,
then hoard these relationships and/or their shared ideas and, in the Fives view, superior
values.
One-to-One Subtype Fives search for a strong, deep connection with one other person whom
they can trust and share confidences with, then hoard themselves, the other person, and these
special relationships.

Potency, resilience, moral power, firmness, and courage these are all concepts that align
with real strength. How can the Enneagram help each of us develop true strength, not physical
prowess or outer toughness?

Fives | To develop real strength, Fives are well advised to focus on two areas: re-inhabiting all
of themselves specifically their emotions and their whole bodies and to learn to take in
support and nurturance from other people. Re-inhabiting themselves gives them far more inner
resources and reserves so they become less depleted. Strength requires fullness. Learning to
rely on the support and sustenance of others also gives them more interpersonal strength, as
they learn that engaging with others, rather than diminishing them, enhances their resilience.