Investigator, Observer, Expert, Scientist, Analyst, Specialist, Hermit
Worldview of the Type 5
Overview
You are a perceptive, observant and analytical person who strives to be wise and knowledgeable. You are an original, strategic thinker that can easily master complex concepts and solve difficult problems.
You value self-sufficiency and privacy and may be reclusive and secretive to protect yourself from intrusions by others or the demands of the world. Your keys to growth include balancing your rich conceptual world with your emotions, and engaging fully with the outside world in the present moment.
What You Are Great At
Being perceptive and insightful about the way the world works.
Being an astute observer of life.
Innovating and breaking new ground.
Focusing, concentrating, and attending to minute and critical details.
Being calm and emotionally unfazed during crises.
Being agile with complex ideas, problems or formulas.
Maintaining independence and self-sufficiency.
Having excellent personal boundaries and respecting others’.
Gathering, managing and analyzing data objectively.
Being trustworthy; maintaining others’ confidences.
Mastering specialized knowledge or disciplines.
Demanding very little for yourself.
Core Wiring
You want to be informed, knowledgeable, concise and perceptive; but most importantly, you want to have a clear mind, self-sufficiency, and few obligations. You are deeply introspective and want to understand how systems work. You may have problems with greed or hoarding, due to a strong desire to be self-sufficient.
You investigate the world from a detached perspective and believe knowledge will keep you safe. You need privacy to think and refuel your energies. Under stress, you may be arrogant, withholding, unemotional or distant. At your best, you are objective, insightful, wise, and a clear-minded expert in your domain.
What Drives You
Driven by core fears of becoming depleted (by external demands), you seek to be knowledgeable, capable, in control, detached, calm, and self-sustaining. You are driven to understand social human relating and your environment to reduce the sense of threat from the outside world and to feel more in control. Wanting to have enough and not need from others, you seek to reduce external demands and your own inner needs, holding on to what you have and withholding from others (emotionally, materially, or otherwise).
Inner World of the Type 5
Core Fears
Your core fear of being overwhelmed, obligated, depleted and left without the resources needed to survive may cause you to fear intrusion from others, or your own helplessness, incompetence, ignorance, or neediness. You may also fear that letting go of what you have, giving in to external demands, or not being able to take care of yourself might have disastrous consequences.
Core Desires
To be wise, knowledgeable, informed, competent, and to have control over who and what enters your life.
Core Needs
Fearing intrusion, you prefer to keep yourself hidden and camouflaged. Regardless of your intellect, you often feel vulnerable and exposed like an animal without fur.
You need time alone to recharge and for others to not place high demands on your time or energy. It is essential for your well-being that your mind is clear, your life uncluttered, and that you have the autonomy to control your time.
Core Beliefs
The world is very demanding, so it is best to be self-sufficient and have few needs. Preparation and stockpiling of knowledge will give me power and confidence. Detaching will conserve my energy.
Likes
Self-sufficiency.
Complex concepts.
Solitude and contemplation.Journeys of discovery; exploring uncharted areas of interest.
Knowledge and information.
Probing for depth of understanding.
Recognizing patterns and associations.
Gaining wisdom and expertise in an original field of study.
Discussing areas of interest with knowledgeable peers.
Managing by remote control.
Original insights and interconnections.
Understanding things at a conceptual level.
Dislikes
Intrusions of any kind.
Strong displays of emotion.
Irrational thinkers, ignorance and incompetence.
Brainstorming and mandatory group events.
Demands on your time and energy.
Being put on the spot for an immediate response.
Expectations of spontaneity and enthusiasm.
People having negative perceptions of their reticence.
Being micromanaged by those less knowledgeable.
Requirements for emotional engagement with others.
Anger and unpredictability.
Neediness and emotional manipulation.
Outer World of the Type 5
Strategies
You withdraw, isolate, and detach yourself from emotion. You protect and conserve your energy and resources for when you need them. You compartmentalize, minimize your needs, and reduce external demands.
Impact of Strategies
You hope to be totally self-sufficient and to have the privacy and knowledge necessary for a clear mind and breatkthrough thinking.
What's Great About You
You are perceptive, wise, analytical, scientific, and cerebral. You are investigative and passionate about complex theories and ideas.
Attention goes to...
Your attention goes to observing the world, hiding or withholding to protect your self and gathering information for the purpose of knowing and understanding. Hesitant and reluctant to engage others, you search for factual data, seeking reason, logic and objectivity.
Famous Type 5 Investigative Thinkers
Agatha Christie, Annie Leibowitz, Ashley Olsen, Athena, Elizabeth ''Effy'' Stonem, Elizabeth "Beth" Harmon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emily Dickinson, Fernanda Montenegro, Georgia O’Keefee, Greta Garbo, Isabel Briggs-Myers, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Joan Didion, Jodie Foster, Jane Goodall, Julia Stiles, Katharine Cook Briggs, Lara Croft, Madeleine Stowe, Marie Curie, Mary-Kate Olsen, Matilda Wormwood, Michelle Pfeiffer, Minami Hamabe, Natalie Merchant, Raini Rodriguez, Rooney Mara, Sister Wendy, Sigourney Weaver, Sun Bak, Teal Swan, Tilda Swinton, Velma Dinkley.
Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bill Gates, Bobby Fischer, C.G. Jung, Cillian Murphy, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Byrne, David Lynch, Dean Koontz, Dr. Gregory House, Elon Musk, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gandalf, George Stephanopoulos, George R. R. Martin, Hannibal Lecter, Howard Hughes, Issac Asimov, J. Paul Getty, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jean-Paul Sartre, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Oliver Sacks, Jules Verne, Ken Wilber, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Crichton, Neo, Nikola Tesla, Norman MacLean, Peter Gabriel, Ralph Fiennes, René Descartes, Richard Chamberlain, Samuel Beckett, Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes, Stanley Kubrick, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ted Kaczynski, Tim Burton, Timothy McVeigh, Buddha, T.S. Eliot, Walter White, Vitalik Buterin.
