SO: “Ambition” - Expresses the passion of pride through cultivating an image of influence and commanding an audience. They are a more status-seeking, ambitious, competitive, and “adult” 2 than the other subtypes.
Heart Types (2, 3, 4)
Common emotional experience: sadness
Type 2:
Core Theme: Twos are natural relationship builders, fostering collaborative environments and supporting the growth of others. They are empathetic, service-oriented, and excel at building strong professional networks.
Core Motivation: To build strong, supportive relationships and contribute to the success of others, gaining validation through their contributions.
Avoids: Being dismissed or rejected
Superpower: Exceptional ability to build rapport, foster team cohesion, and provide personalized support, creating positive and inclusive environments.
Focus of Attention: Identifying who to connect with and who may need their assistance. May use flattery and unsolicited advice as a means to feeling wanted and appreciated.
Communication Style: Concerned with people over tasks, they offer warm, empathetic, and feeling-oriented conversation to foster connection.
Physical Profile: Energetic and engaging, with a tendency to lean-in toward others. May experience tension in the chest, as they wait for important others to respond to their supportive efforts.
How Twos Deal with Sadness: Seeking validation through befriending, pleasing, and acts of service, often avoiding direct connection with their own personal wants and needs.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Pride - adopting an idealized self-perception of their generosity and ability to make others like them.
Virtue (when in higher awareness): Humility.
SP: “Privilege” - Expresses the passion of pride through charming those around them with a youthful cuteness in order to get what they want without having to ask. They are a more fearful, dependent, and emotionally expressive 2 than the other subtypes.
SP: “Security” - Expresses the passion of self-deception through the vanity of having no vanity, wanting others to see them as attractive and successful without them knowing that they want this. They are more focused on being good, maintaining their ethics, and being self-sufficient than the other subtypes.
SP: “Tenacity” - Expresses the passion of envy less than the other subtypes and, instead, takes on too much suffering, enduring pain without wincing and exhibiting almost masochistic type behavior. They are a more nurturing, sunnier 4 than the other subtypes.
The 3 Subtypes of 2:
SX: “Seductive” - Expresses the passion of pride through the need to be appealing and desired by the other. They are a more generous, impassioned, action-oriented 2 than the other subtypes. .
Type 3:
Core Theme: Threes are driven, results-oriented achievers who excel at reaching their goals and driving success. They are adaptable, strategic, and skilled at presenting a polished image.
Core Motivation: To achieve measurable success, gain recognition, and maintain a positive image.
Avoids: Failure / feeling worthless.
Superpower: Strategic execution, persuasive communication, and the ability to inspire and motivate people to achieve ambitious goals.
Focus of Attention: Identifying the desires, expectations, values, climate, clothing, and overall vibe of any room, and then automatically adapting to become the best representation of that environment in order to impress and win the approval and admiration of others.
Communication Style: Goal-oriented, persuasive, and adaptable, tailoring their message to resonate with their audience.
Physical Profile: Dynamic and energetic, with a focus on efficiency and productivity, potentially suppressing or dismissing emotions in order to maintain focus.
How Three's Deal with Sadness: By focusing on goals, achievements and external validation, while denying and repressing their own authentic wants and emotions.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Self-Deception - convincing themselves that they are not adapting who they are according to the room they are in, and that they are not an emotional type.
Virtue (when in higher awareness): Authenticity.
The 3 Subtypes of 3:
SO: “Prestige” - Expresses the passion of self-deception through being the most chameleon of all ennea-types, and pursuing more recognition and admiration. They are more likely to keep people at arm’s length in order to maintain a positive image than the other subtypes.
SX: Masculinity/Femininity” - Expresses the passion of self-deception through creating an attractive image and working to promote others’ success, whlie actively avoiding acknowledging or connecting to the deep sadness they often feel inside. They are a sweeter and shyer 3 than the other subtypes.
Type 4:
Core Theme: Fours are creative visionaries with unique perspectives, depth, and an innovative mindset. They are deeply committed to authenticity and pursuing significance, as they strive to create meaningful experiences in their own lives and those with whom they live and work.
Core Motivation: To express their individuality, create meaningful work, and find deep emotional connection.
Avoids: What feels inauthentic or ordinary.
Superpower: Exceptional creativity, access to their emotions, and the ability to inspire others with their unique vision and perspective.
Focus of Attention: Identifying what is missing and looking for opportunities for creative expression, seeking deeper meaning, and navigating complex emotional landscapes, often comparing their current experience with an idealized version of a past experience.
Communication Style: Expressive, creative, emotionally resonant, and inclined toward feeling words. May be self-referencing and overly focused on the negative.
Physical Profile: A tendency to oscillate between lethargy and pronounced expressions. Emotions may sometimes feel like they are pooling in the chest, leading to experiences of anxiety and/or melancholy.
How Fours Deal with Sadness: Channeling sadness into creative expression and seeking meaningful connections, often focusing on cultivating unique experiences. Fours can usually connect deeply with sadness and are often gifted at turning it into beautiful outward messages for the world.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Envy - a constant comparison of themselves to others.
Virtue: Equanimity
The 3 Subtypes of 4:
SO: “Shame” - Expresses envy through continual comparisons, suffering, and lament, finding comfort in the familiarity of pain. They are a more timid and dramatic 4 who feel more shame about their wants and needs than the other subtypes.
SX: “Competition” - Expresses envy through competition and anger. They are a more intense, shameless, and demanding type of 4 who refuse to suffer and insist on their needs being met more than the other subtypes.
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