Investigator

Analytic personality types are great at critical thinking. They are curious and natural investigators, constantly looking for connections between seemingly unrelated points.

The type Five personality is typically introverted and quiet. They use their personal time to process information and make discoveries, or to build and synthesize new ways of thinking.

The type Five will have a workspace that is clean and tidy, but still represents their special interests. They don’t care if their interests conform to what other people think is interesting, and are fiercely against following trends or traditions just for the sake of following them.

Fives are the most withdrawn of the personality types, and direct a lot of their energy inwards. They prefer gaining knowledge to creating connections with others.

Fives will reserve their energy for things that they care about, which often makes them seem distant or disinterested in other world events. This behavior is due to a limited amount of energy for external demands.

This personality type falls into the ‘head-based’ triad of Enneagram model personalities. This triad also includes the type Six and type Seven. The emotion that this triad has as their core emotion is fear. Type Fives deal with fear by withdrawing and protecting their inner energy and resources.

Fives are independent and prefer to have autonomy from potential influences. They are largely self-sufficient, but can grow when they learn to rely on others and open themselves to supporting influences from others.

Core values

• Type Fives want freedom above all else, and often dream of working alone.
• Fives tend to disregard polite convention, and are more interested in gaining knowledge about unknowns than playing by social rules.
• They are calm in times of distress, and take time to chart the best course through uncertainty.
• They want to feel independent, as well as have the freedom to pursue understanding of life's greatest mysteries.