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479 Tritype (The Escapist): Pros and cons
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4-7-9 RESEARCH
1--4--2
5--7--1
3--9--6
COOL STUFF
I tend to make a good impression upon most people. I'm friendly, energetic, and polite. I tend to say weird things and have weird conversation topics, which will endear me to most people, but cut me off from some others. Also, my flirtatiousness will intimidate some people (or give them the wrong idea!) I get along well with almost everyone, and I don't start disliking anyone unless I'm provoked. Even then, this dislike will pass easily, unless the person is a repeat offender of jerkness.
I'm an introvert who can play the extrovert very well. I'm a good conversationalist and have no problem going up and talking to random people. When I'm nervous, I just smile and say things at about a mile a minute. This has gotten me through several important interviews with success.
I'm a quick thinker. I can think on my feet quite well, like most 7s. However, I'm also a deep thinker. I need a lot of alone time to figure out the mysteries of life and the universe. I love to express myself through the arts, and my 7-ness helps me out of my shell to get experiences that inspire my art.
I'm quirky and eccentric. People think I'm weird, but I don't care. I don't care about embarrassing myself in front of others, because I do it basically every day. I'm accident-prone.
I have NO problem putting myself out there. I will tell people the most random things about myself. I don't try to change people. I'm open-minded and a strong proponent of "live and let live."
I'm a bit more daring than most Fours. When I'm feeling spontaneous, I have a very Sevenish way of wanting to go out and try new things. I love new experiences, new places, and meeting new people. Then the other half of the time, I'll stay in my room, writing or researching or just laying around in my PJs thinking and listening to music, like many Fours and Nines. Both are happy states. It's weird. Depends on what happened earlier that day; maybe on the weather.
I have so many possibilities. I can't cut myself off from any of them. I can't close myself off to just one career! Seven pushes me to explore all my options, and Four and Nine push me to dream big.
I do need a lot of alone time to process and sort out my experiences. I'm heavily influenced by my ambiance, and some soothing music and candles are usually enough to put me at peace. I write in a journal every day and love to reflect and reminisce on the past. That's why I started journaling in the first place-- to remember everything about my past and have stories to pass on to others.
I have a Fiveish streak, because it's what Seven integrates to. I love to learn, through new experiences and through books. I'm observant and detail-oriented, constantly developing hypotheses and plans.
I won't deceive or flatter people. Even if they don't like it, I will tell them the truth. But I'll probably sugarcoat it in a Nineish way.
I become infatuated very easily. I daydream a TON. I can sit in my bed for hours and just play out stories and thoughts in my head. And, since I'm a 4, most of my declarations of passion get turned into songs or stories or journal entries with lots of exclamation points.
I feel things more intensely than most people. When I'm up, I'm UP. Being infatuated gives me much more energy than all the caffeine in the world ever could. I get HIGH on it. After something monumental-- a first kiss, meeting someone new, or something along those lines-- I will not sleep for DAYS because I just can't. If I remember correctly, the last time something like that happened, I ran down the halls, squealing, then lay in bed shaking and playing scenarios of the future in my head. I'm a cracked-out love junkie.
I'm empathetic. When I see someone who's sad, I will worry about them and try to help them. Sometimes I don't know what to do, but I'll always try. I like to do stuff for people-- on finals week I made my roommates chocolate truffles because I knew they'd need something sweet.
Integration of 4-7-9 goes to 1-5-3, which makes me more grounded and logical. I get out of dreamworld a little more and exert ambition and hard work. I become more focused, self-disciplined, and hardworking, while still retaining my open-mindedness and optimism. My head's just out of the clouds and I can work on those intricate plans I've been formulating for myself.
FLAWS
When things get rough for me-- I BOLT. Instead of facing my conflict, I run off to somewhere new, somewhere potentially better. Since I'm a 4 first, I'm not impulsive enough to run off anywhere for real if it's too far out of my way. I just dream and make plans to get out at the first plausible opportunity.
4 escapes reality by going into fantasy. 7 escapes pain by going into pleasure. 9 escapes the self and conflict by repression. None of these have any inherent situation-seizing whatsoever.
I never learned about hard work paying off because I would always slide by on what I could do naturally. When something actually took a lot of work for me to learn, it was tough for me to force myself not to quit. I never tried in gym class. I wouldn't touch the steering wheel of a car for two years after I failed my driver's test. I just figured I could get by without ever having to do these things. It was all due to my dumb 4ish pride, 7ish wish for things to come easily, and 9ish nonresponsiveness in the face of problems. The 4 and 7 overrode the 9 and created a sense of impetuousness and impatience.
On a related note, I can't do anything unless I'm in the right mood for it. I'm incredibly lazy and a horrible procrastinator. But when I'm in the "feel-like-it" mood, I'm absolutely brilliant! I can do anything! And when it fades, I'm back to laying around in my pj's and watching kitty videos on YouTube. Drinking caffeine and listening to upbeat music sort of help to get me in "work mode," but it's no comparison to natural "work mode."
I'll make all these elaborate plans but never follow through with them. I'll lay down the framework for an elaborate novel to be fleshed out, but I'll get bored with it and move on to the next idea. It's hard to keep my interest and attention.
In my relationships, I was always one foot out the door. Any conflict meant that something wasn't lining up, and that there was probably something better for me out there. So I'd leave. I was a commitment-phobe, terrified of latching onto someone and later finding someone "better." And when I'm working out whether I want to leave someone or not, I tend to isolate a lot to think it over. I become "hot-and-cold", torn between staying and leaving. I always leave eventually.
I saw character as kind of a stagnant state. I'd had a couple bad relationships and figured that people who said they were going to change usually wouldn't. So the only way to deal with these people would be to leave them. Now I wonder if I've been giving up on people too easily. A diamond in the rough is still a diamond. It just need a little sanding and polishing.
I worry about my relationships too much. I can't stand to have people upset with me-- even when I have to reject someone or cut someone off, I will try to be as nice as possible. However, sometimes they take it the wrong way, and I wind up unintentionally leading them on. Also, when people are upset with me, I worry about them abandoning me. (I can be a bit of a doormat sometimes, and I'm more easily guilt-tripped than I'd like to admit.) I never quite feel like I belong, and I guess sometimes I'm overly talkative and friendly towards everyone to overcompensate.
I have a problem with taking things personally. Sometimes things others say can really get to me, launching a lot of self-analysis and feeling flawed or broken. The worst thing that anyone can do is not take me seriously and trivialize my pain.
My Fourish narcissism has caused me a lot of problems. It's part of my instinct to differentiate myself from others, but sometimes I let out some overtones of seeming "better" than others. I really try to contain this narcissism within my head. I'm a snob when it comes to aesthetics, whether it be in music or the arts, and compare my own work to others' a lot. I'm realistic about where my talents lie, and if I find others to be better than me, I rationalize that I'm not working hard enough. So I channel my pride into something healthy.
I can't stand being under authority. I hate being told what to do, especially if I feel I am more competent than the person in charge. I will not kiss anyone's ass, but I won't talk back to them, either. I'll just go off and do what I feel like doing and not give a damn what they think. Again, it's my 4ish pride and 7ish rebellion talking.
I'm very Nine-ish when angry. I'm so trapped in my façade of being sweet and polite all the time that when I'm super angry, I can't express it to someone's face. (I hate arguing.) Nor do I vilify them behind their back. I do, however, rip them apart in my angsty journal entries. I'm getting a lot better about speaking up when something doesn't feel right and working things out rather than just taking off. And even after I've taken off, I hold grudges for awhile.
When I'm busy and don't want to be bothered, the talkative, energetic part of me goes out the window. I'm cold and aloof and don't want to interact with anyone. When I'm disintegrated, I'm like this all the time-- I go full misanthrope.
I'm very sensitive. When people question my decision-making or my beliefs, I feel like they don't trust me to make my own decisions. Also, when I get insulted, I will dwell on it for awhile, wondering if there is anything I need to improve about myself. But I won't let others see this.
When I'm with people I'm ticked off at, there is no way I'll enjoy it. I'll go into the unhealthy Four angst-angst mode, just sitting there in sullen silence, wanting to go home and read a book or something. Sometimes, snarky, biting remarks will slip out, and this is only when I'm really comfortable with the person I'm mad at, if that makes any sense. In extreme cases, I'll avoid and ignore.
I can go into denial about my sadness. Sometimes, when I'm sad, I'll try to put it out of my mind and distract myself with things, like a Seven. I rarely let others know about my pain. I believe I have a duty to everyone I know and love to be my best self around them. Also, my Fourish arrogance tells me that I can deal with my problems better on my own, since I'm the only one who knows the exact set of circumstances. I only talk about the tough stuff with people I REALLY trust.
I use dreaming and evasion to get through my pain and depression. I dream about the day when I can escape my problems literally. If someone's being a jerk, I'll dream about moving away from them and cutting off all contact forever. If classes suck, I focus on the diploma I'll receive and the cool career I'll have. If I'm lonely, I'll fantasize about meeting someone awesome at my next career or in grad school. Usually, this keeps me in check.
Unfortunately, some situations slip through the cracks. Sometimes, I DO lose hope and wonder if I'll ever find what I'm looking for out there. Sometimes, there are problems where running away won't do any good, like when Accutane made me basically go bald. That's when I go into my little Four cave of weepy horribleness and write seriously depressing stuff, waiting for the storm to pass.
Disintegration of 4-7-9 goes to 2-1-6. With the 2 in control, I become weepy and clingy. More than once I have typed out a weepy, angsty facebook note at 4 AM to someone I care about about all the kinks and woes in our relationship, then begged for them not to leave me. The 6 means being stressed about everything and paranoid about whether people care about me or not. And the 1? I become self-righteous, stubborn, I-am-right-and-everyone-else-is-wrong, when I'm usually so open-minded. I haven't seen much of this disintegration 1, but the 2 and 6, definitely.
All in all, I can't imagine being any other tritype. As crazy as it is, I love being a 4-7-9 and wouldn't change it. I do want to become healthier. I do want to stop running from my problems and falling into passive-aggressiveness. But the open-minded spontenaity and the artistic creativity? I'll stick with that.
1--4--2
5--7--1
3--9--6
COOL STUFF
I tend to make a good impression upon most people. I'm friendly, energetic, and polite. I tend to say weird things and have weird conversation topics, which will endear me to most people, but cut me off from some others. Also, my flirtatiousness will intimidate some people (or give them the wrong idea!) I get along well with almost everyone, and I don't start disliking anyone unless I'm provoked. Even then, this dislike will pass easily, unless the person is a repeat offender of jerkness.
I'm an introvert who can play the extrovert very well. I'm a good conversationalist and have no problem going up and talking to random people. When I'm nervous, I just smile and say things at about a mile a minute. This has gotten me through several important interviews with success.
I'm a quick thinker. I can think on my feet quite well, like most 7s. However, I'm also a deep thinker. I need a lot of alone time to figure out the mysteries of life and the universe. I love to express myself through the arts, and my 7-ness helps me out of my shell to get experiences that inspire my art.
I'm quirky and eccentric. People think I'm weird, but I don't care. I don't care about embarrassing myself in front of others, because I do it basically every day. I'm accident-prone.
I have NO problem putting myself out there. I will tell people the most random things about myself. I don't try to change people. I'm open-minded and a strong proponent of "live and let live."
I'm a bit more daring than most Fours. When I'm feeling spontaneous, I have a very Sevenish way of wanting to go out and try new things. I love new experiences, new places, and meeting new people. Then the other half of the time, I'll stay in my room, writing or researching or just laying around in my PJs thinking and listening to music, like many Fours and Nines. Both are happy states. It's weird. Depends on what happened earlier that day; maybe on the weather.
I have so many possibilities. I can't cut myself off from any of them. I can't close myself off to just one career! Seven pushes me to explore all my options, and Four and Nine push me to dream big.
I do need a lot of alone time to process and sort out my experiences. I'm heavily influenced by my ambiance, and some soothing music and candles are usually enough to put me at peace. I write in a journal every day and love to reflect and reminisce on the past. That's why I started journaling in the first place-- to remember everything about my past and have stories to pass on to others.
I have a Fiveish streak, because it's what Seven integrates to. I love to learn, through new experiences and through books. I'm observant and detail-oriented, constantly developing hypotheses and plans.
I won't deceive or flatter people. Even if they don't like it, I will tell them the truth. But I'll probably sugarcoat it in a Nineish way.
I become infatuated very easily. I daydream a TON. I can sit in my bed for hours and just play out stories and thoughts in my head. And, since I'm a 4, most of my declarations of passion get turned into songs or stories or journal entries with lots of exclamation points.
I feel things more intensely than most people. When I'm up, I'm UP. Being infatuated gives me much more energy than all the caffeine in the world ever could. I get HIGH on it. After something monumental-- a first kiss, meeting someone new, or something along those lines-- I will not sleep for DAYS because I just can't. If I remember correctly, the last time something like that happened, I ran down the halls, squealing, then lay in bed shaking and playing scenarios of the future in my head. I'm a cracked-out love junkie.
I'm empathetic. When I see someone who's sad, I will worry about them and try to help them. Sometimes I don't know what to do, but I'll always try. I like to do stuff for people-- on finals week I made my roommates chocolate truffles because I knew they'd need something sweet.
Integration of 4-7-9 goes to 1-5-3, which makes me more grounded and logical. I get out of dreamworld a little more and exert ambition and hard work. I become more focused, self-disciplined, and hardworking, while still retaining my open-mindedness and optimism. My head's just out of the clouds and I can work on those intricate plans I've been formulating for myself.
FLAWS
When things get rough for me-- I BOLT. Instead of facing my conflict, I run off to somewhere new, somewhere potentially better. Since I'm a 4 first, I'm not impulsive enough to run off anywhere for real if it's too far out of my way. I just dream and make plans to get out at the first plausible opportunity.
4 escapes reality by going into fantasy. 7 escapes pain by going into pleasure. 9 escapes the self and conflict by repression. None of these have any inherent situation-seizing whatsoever.
I never learned about hard work paying off because I would always slide by on what I could do naturally. When something actually took a lot of work for me to learn, it was tough for me to force myself not to quit. I never tried in gym class. I wouldn't touch the steering wheel of a car for two years after I failed my driver's test. I just figured I could get by without ever having to do these things. It was all due to my dumb 4ish pride, 7ish wish for things to come easily, and 9ish nonresponsiveness in the face of problems. The 4 and 7 overrode the 9 and created a sense of impetuousness and impatience.
On a related note, I can't do anything unless I'm in the right mood for it. I'm incredibly lazy and a horrible procrastinator. But when I'm in the "feel-like-it" mood, I'm absolutely brilliant! I can do anything! And when it fades, I'm back to laying around in my pj's and watching kitty videos on YouTube. Drinking caffeine and listening to upbeat music sort of help to get me in "work mode," but it's no comparison to natural "work mode."
I'll make all these elaborate plans but never follow through with them. I'll lay down the framework for an elaborate novel to be fleshed out, but I'll get bored with it and move on to the next idea. It's hard to keep my interest and attention.
In my relationships, I was always one foot out the door. Any conflict meant that something wasn't lining up, and that there was probably something better for me out there. So I'd leave. I was a commitment-phobe, terrified of latching onto someone and later finding someone "better." And when I'm working out whether I want to leave someone or not, I tend to isolate a lot to think it over. I become "hot-and-cold", torn between staying and leaving. I always leave eventually.
I saw character as kind of a stagnant state. I'd had a couple bad relationships and figured that people who said they were going to change usually wouldn't. So the only way to deal with these people would be to leave them. Now I wonder if I've been giving up on people too easily. A diamond in the rough is still a diamond. It just need a little sanding and polishing.
I worry about my relationships too much. I can't stand to have people upset with me-- even when I have to reject someone or cut someone off, I will try to be as nice as possible. However, sometimes they take it the wrong way, and I wind up unintentionally leading them on. Also, when people are upset with me, I worry about them abandoning me. (I can be a bit of a doormat sometimes, and I'm more easily guilt-tripped than I'd like to admit.) I never quite feel like I belong, and I guess sometimes I'm overly talkative and friendly towards everyone to overcompensate.
I have a problem with taking things personally. Sometimes things others say can really get to me, launching a lot of self-analysis and feeling flawed or broken. The worst thing that anyone can do is not take me seriously and trivialize my pain.
My Fourish narcissism has caused me a lot of problems. It's part of my instinct to differentiate myself from others, but sometimes I let out some overtones of seeming "better" than others. I really try to contain this narcissism within my head. I'm a snob when it comes to aesthetics, whether it be in music or the arts, and compare my own work to others' a lot. I'm realistic about where my talents lie, and if I find others to be better than me, I rationalize that I'm not working hard enough. So I channel my pride into something healthy.
I can't stand being under authority. I hate being told what to do, especially if I feel I am more competent than the person in charge. I will not kiss anyone's ass, but I won't talk back to them, either. I'll just go off and do what I feel like doing and not give a damn what they think. Again, it's my 4ish pride and 7ish rebellion talking.
I'm very Nine-ish when angry. I'm so trapped in my façade of being sweet and polite all the time that when I'm super angry, I can't express it to someone's face. (I hate arguing.) Nor do I vilify them behind their back. I do, however, rip them apart in my angsty journal entries. I'm getting a lot better about speaking up when something doesn't feel right and working things out rather than just taking off. And even after I've taken off, I hold grudges for awhile.
When I'm busy and don't want to be bothered, the talkative, energetic part of me goes out the window. I'm cold and aloof and don't want to interact with anyone. When I'm disintegrated, I'm like this all the time-- I go full misanthrope.
I'm very sensitive. When people question my decision-making or my beliefs, I feel like they don't trust me to make my own decisions. Also, when I get insulted, I will dwell on it for awhile, wondering if there is anything I need to improve about myself. But I won't let others see this.
When I'm with people I'm ticked off at, there is no way I'll enjoy it. I'll go into the unhealthy Four angst-angst mode, just sitting there in sullen silence, wanting to go home and read a book or something. Sometimes, snarky, biting remarks will slip out, and this is only when I'm really comfortable with the person I'm mad at, if that makes any sense. In extreme cases, I'll avoid and ignore.
I can go into denial about my sadness. Sometimes, when I'm sad, I'll try to put it out of my mind and distract myself with things, like a Seven. I rarely let others know about my pain. I believe I have a duty to everyone I know and love to be my best self around them. Also, my Fourish arrogance tells me that I can deal with my problems better on my own, since I'm the only one who knows the exact set of circumstances. I only talk about the tough stuff with people I REALLY trust.
I use dreaming and evasion to get through my pain and depression. I dream about the day when I can escape my problems literally. If someone's being a jerk, I'll dream about moving away from them and cutting off all contact forever. If classes suck, I focus on the diploma I'll receive and the cool career I'll have. If I'm lonely, I'll fantasize about meeting someone awesome at my next career or in grad school. Usually, this keeps me in check.
Unfortunately, some situations slip through the cracks. Sometimes, I DO lose hope and wonder if I'll ever find what I'm looking for out there. Sometimes, there are problems where running away won't do any good, like when Accutane made me basically go bald. That's when I go into my little Four cave of weepy horribleness and write seriously depressing stuff, waiting for the storm to pass.
Disintegration of 4-7-9 goes to 2-1-6. With the 2 in control, I become weepy and clingy. More than once I have typed out a weepy, angsty facebook note at 4 AM to someone I care about about all the kinks and woes in our relationship, then begged for them not to leave me. The 6 means being stressed about everything and paranoid about whether people care about me or not. And the 1? I become self-righteous, stubborn, I-am-right-and-everyone-else-is-wrong, when I'm usually so open-minded. I haven't seen much of this disintegration 1, but the 2 and 6, definitely.
All in all, I can't imagine being any other tritype. As crazy as it is, I love being a 4-7-9 and wouldn't change it. I do want to become healthier. I do want to stop running from my problems and falling into passive-aggressiveness. But the open-minded spontenaity and the artistic creativity? I'll stick with that.
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I figure some of you enneagram 479s, 497s, 749s, 794s, 947s, and 974s (or anyone who knows one of these) would find this helpful or resonate with this. Mainly, I wrote it as a reminder to myself about what I need to work on and what I can be proud of. If you have anything to add that resonates with you, feel free to post it in the comments section. I probably have dealt with that, too, and can add it in! 
after some self-searching, i've decided i am...
4w3 9w1 7w6 so/sx
after some self-searching, i've decided i am...
4w3 9w1 7w6 so/sx
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FINALLY SOMEONE CALLING US WHAT WE ARE!! NON OF THAT ‘gentle spirit’ BULLSHIT!!! Hehe we’re all just escapists Really









