- EXTRAVERTED SENSING (Se) - “Act quickly and smoothly to handle whatever comes up in the moment.”
Excited by motion, action, and nature. Adept at physical multitasking with a video game-like mind primed for action. Often in touch with body sensations. Bored when sitting with a mental/rote task. Strong memory for details in context. Use their whole brain to handle crises. May be impatient to finish.
MAINLY ESFP, ESTP. ALSO ISFP, ISTP.
- INTROVERTED SENSING (Si) - “Review and practice in order to specialise and meet group needs.”
Constant practice helps their brain specialise. Improve when watching a role-model or example. Often in touch with body sensations. Easily track where they are in a task. Use their whole brain to review the past. Strong memory for kinship and raw details. May over-rely on authority for guidance.
MAINLY ISTJ, ISFJ. ALSO ESTJ, ESFJ.
- EXTRAVERTED INTUITING (Ne) - “Perceive and play with patterns of relationships across contexts.”
Think analogically: notice and apply patterns of relationships across contexts. Stimuli are springboards to generate analogies and ideas. Easily guess details. Adept at role-play and mirroring others. Brain activity tends to look chaotic, with many highs and lows at once. May find it hard to stay on-task.
MAINLY ENTP, ENFP. ALSO INTP, INFP.
- INTROVERTED INTUITING (Ni) - “Draw upon the whole brain to realise an answer to a novel problem.”
Enter a very brief trance to answer problems. Focus on what will happen. Use their whole brain to foresee the future. Manage their own mental processes and are aware of where they are in an open-ended task. May use physical action or symbol to focus the mind. May over-rely on the unconscious
MAINLY INTJ, INFJ. ALSO ENTJ, ENFJ.
- EXTRAVERTED THINKING (Te) - “Manage resources efficiently to quickly decide based on the evidence.”
Highly efficient use of brain resources. Focus on word content, recall facts and figures, see and manipulate images, and then decide. Adept at giving decisive explanations. Tend to utilise other brain regions only when those regions are truly needed. May display confidence even when wrong.
MAINLY ESTJ, ENTJ. ALSO ISTJ, INTJ.
- INTROVERTED THINKING (Ti) - “Reason multiple ways to objectively and accurately analyse problems.”
Rely on interior regions of neocortex. Adept at deductive reasoning, defining and categorising, weighing odds and risks, and/or navigating spaces. Can shut out senses to think. Tend to back-track to clarify thoughts. Separate body from mind when arguing or analysing. May quickly stop listening.
MAINLY ISTP, INTP. ALSO ESTP, ENTP.
- EXTRAVERTED FEELING (Fe) - “Evaluate and communicate values to enhance social relationships.”
Attend keenly to how others judge them. Quickly adjust behaviour for social harmony. Like to use adjectives to convey values. The true degree of their emotional response about morals/ethics is often held back and given only in words or ideas. May be easily coerced or embarrassed.
MAINLY ESFJ, ENFJ. ALSO ISFJ, INFJ.
- INTROVERTED FEELING (Fi) - “Listen with your whole self to locate and support what’s important.”
Evaluate personal importance along a spectrum from love/like to dislike/hate. Use their whole brain to listen to others. Attentive and curious for what is not said. Focus on word choice and voice tone. Hard to embarrass. Can respond strongly to specific, high-value words. May not utilise feedback.
MAINLY ISFP, INFP. ALSO ESFP, ENFP.
Fi is the function i relate to the most, definitely.And then Ne. The word choice thing is something i do alot,i watch for what people mean and how they say it and what all of that says about how they feel.
John Hammond tends to be on an emotional
plane of his own – he enters a trailer without permission, uncorks a bottle of
champagne, and lures two paleontologists into coming to his park without
batting an eyelash at their early annoyance and quick turn-about to politeness.
When his grandchildren get lost in the park, he retreats into the dining room
to eat ice cream and brood alone. He can be indifferent to other people’s
problems when they don’t concern him (“I don’t care about your money troubles,
Dennis”).His inferior Te shows in his inability to think through the dangerous
realities of populating a park with “meat eating” dinosaurs, his bluntness
under stress, and how angry and defensive he becomes under criticism,
incredulous that others do not like his ideas. He also cares nothing for profit
(“This park should not be only for the rich…”).
Full of
ideas, Hammond has brought the past to life through his park, with naïve,
childish wonder and delight. He has made a career out of selling people ideas –
flea circuses that become dinosaur parks. He’s quite proud of all the details that
went into his park, while being ignorant of their larger implications – like Ellie
says, he has extinct poisonous plants growing all over the place without any
thought to what might happen as a result. His carelessness with real world
realities while focusing on minor details (the best kinds of ice cream, for
example) shows how invested he is in executing his ideas, but how impractical
they can be in the long term.
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
House Traits: wit, intelligence, creativity,
and wisdom.
Hammond
prides himself on being intelligent, creative, and ambitious. He’s invested in
his park, and wants all the best, highest class of people to put their stamp of
approval on it. His hubris winds up getting people killed.
Enneagram Core: 4w3
Tritype: 4w3 7w8 9w8
Hammond
is all about being different from other people – taking an idea like a dinosaur
park and making it a reality, then emphasizing that it’s not a common theme
park, or a huge money maker, but something genuinely special and real. It tears
him apart when it doesn’t work; his 3 wing emphasizes the need for “top quality”
everything (“Spared no expense”) and the need to impress everyone with his
scheme. His 7 desires to turn negatives into positives, runs away from the
messy details of failure and danger, and avoids dwelling too much on the
realities of his ideas. He doesn’t like too much dissent and/or disagreement
and is annoyed when others don’t play along (9). Double 8 fixes makes him
reckless with his ideas.
I always loved the guy. Even from a young age when i first watched the movie, i always felt a certain kinship with him. I tend to enjoy top quality in things too. Another thing that makes me reconsider my 4 wing.
I’m
an ENTP 4w5. (less confident about 4w5 part than the ENTP). I’m not super great
at social connections, but I’m good at getting people to like me. However, I
really struggle with building deeper connections with people. I end up feeling
like a guest visiting friends instead of a friend myself. When I was younger I
obsessed over getting a girlfriend because I wanted a connection that wouldn’t
leave. I realize this might only be my own false perspective but still I’m not
sure what to do about it.
Does it
ever feel like you’re inside a glass box? Like, people can press up against it
but never really “touch” you? That’s what it feels like for me, most of the
time. Like, I’m talking to them, watching them, interacting with them, but not merging with them. Like I’m in a castle,
or there’s an invisible wall between us. Part of me wants to break it down, to
find some deeper connection, to let things impact me on a deeper level, but I
don’t know how.
(When I
mention this to other people, they give me blank looks, and then argue with me
about it, not understanding how I could feel this way… so I’m wondering if it’s
a 4 or a 4w5 thing? Can ANYONE relate to this?)
I often
say I don’t bond with people, I don’t connect to them, I don’t feel what I should for them; they like me more than
I like them. And then someone in my life will turn around and argue that I sure
concern myself with their lives, business, suffering, relationships, and
emotional states a “whole lot for someone who claims they don’t CONNECT.” In
other words, “You’re full of crap. You DO care, but what you think is ‘caring’ or genuine bonding is
some abstract ideal.”
Part of
this, I think, is the 4’s tendency to create a persona. I put up a barrier or
a front (“I don’t care… I don’t bond with people… I don’t connect to them”) to protect myself, because I can’t let in
everyone else’s pain. It’s too much. I
see life as a continual cycle of beauty and tragedy. Something as mundane as
seeing a dead animal on the side of the road can be awful if I dwell on it. I don’t look. I don’t let myself feel it. I don’t go
there. Losing people might rip out my soul. So I lie to myself that I’m
disconnected. I’m not. But the lie comforts me.
As for the
feeling like I’m in a glass house, separate from others, I suspect it’s 4’s intense need
for depth and its tendency to look at what isn’t
there, instead of what is; to look at a “normal” conversation and mourn that it
wasn’t deeper, richer, more … something.
Whatever “something” is. But it exists, you know. It’s just something I don’t have, and other people have in
abundance, because THEY are clearly satisfied with life in a way I am not. 4 is all about what it’s
lacking, how it’s deficient, how other people seem to have it easier. Oh, they laugh so easily… why don’t I? They seem to so easily bond with
others and have relationships? Why can’t I? What do they have that I lack? Why
do I lack it? Is there something WRONG with me? There must be! I am defective,
and that’s why no one will ever love me, because I’m so fundamentally flawed.
The
truth is, the conversation may NOT be superficial – our 4 is just longing
for something “more” than what’s right in front of us – tossing out the baby
with the bath water. Our connection to the other person may NOT be from behind
a pane of glass, we’re just thinking that because we have unrealistic standards
of what a relationship should look / feel like, and it always has to be deep,
passionate, intense, probing, intellectual, and full of sparks. A relationship is not what we currently have, it’s what we don’t feel for other people.
I was
struggling with this today, after yet another self-berating after lunch with a friend
(why can’t I step from behind my pane of glass?) – and I think the answer is to
say: “Shut up, 4. Stop being melodramatic. Stop looking for what
isn’t there. Look at what is. Would this person say to your face, ‘You are my best friend?’ if you were half the cold,
distant, disconnected freak that you think
you are?”
It’s the
temptation of 4 to fall into melodrama, a sort of self-congratulating sigh at
being so “different” – so flawed. I
mean, why enjoy a nice afternoon with a friend and feel good about it later, when
you can come home and sigh about your inability to connect to people? In the
process, we can get so caught up in self-absorption (“What’s wrong with
me??”) that we miss out on the fact that other people think we’re pretty… well,
special.
Bottom
line? I suspect you have deeper connections than you think. Write out what you
think a deep connection is. Define it. Then look and see, sincerely,
if you have it. Once you know what a deep connection means to
yourself, you can look at a tangible description whenever your 4 wants to
become dramatic, and remind yourself not to long for an abstract when
you have the real thing.
- ENFP
Mod
I’m a 4 SX and yes I totally feel this.
This is me. While i may have done it differently at times(repressing big time), yes i do what she’s talking about here. I may simply have been unaware of it or fully feeling/realzing it. Oh and i may just be an SX as well.
Anyone (LGBT) in Durham looking for a roommate/knows anyone looking for a roommate? I need a place to live ASAP. Or if anyone knows any good FB groups?
If you reblog anything of mine, please reblog this, this is like super stressful.
