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Enneagram Type 4
The Individualist
Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. At their best, they are inspired and highly creative, able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.
Core Desire
To find their identity and significance
Core Fear
Having no identity or personal significance
Core Motivation
To express themselves and their individuality, to create and surround themselves with beauty
Key Traits
Creative and expressive
Deeply self-aware
Emotionally honest
Sensitive and intuitive
Romantic and aesthetic
Authentic and unique
Wings
Your wing is one of the two types adjacent to your core type, adding unique flavor to your personality.
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