Famous 5s

Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Warhol, Bill Gates, Blaise Pascal, Bobby Fischer, Eckhart Tolle, Glenn Gould, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Cage, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mark Zuckerberg, Meredith Monk, Paul Stamets, Rene Descarte, Stephen King, Stephen Hawking, Tim Burton, Tobi Lutke

Countries and Cultures that Reflect Type 5 Characteristics: Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), Otakus (geeks)

Levels of Consciousness

Creative: curious, scrutinizing 

Controlling: eccentric, reclusive

Destructive: caustic, doomsaying

Shock point fear (the fear that causes the slip from Creative to Controlling consciousness) 

I have not mastered enough to feel confident to be in the world

Examples of shock point fears

• Someone found a flaw in my code… Are there people smarter than me??

• The leading research expert on armadillos’ dietary preferences has just disproved my exquisitely elaborate theory of leprosy contraction as it relates to armadillos, and now life as I know it has lost its inherent meaning

• My wife wants me to be an expert in understanding her emotions and giving love… I’m completely stumped.

• I predicted global warming but no one believed me…

Why I get provoked Illuminating my ignorance, questioning my unemotional perception of reality, or bringing me in touch with emotions and personal obligations that I don’t understand and don’t want to understand because I’m all about unsentimental, unbiased discovery

How I cope with fear I become The Hermit. I pull out of the world to live immersed in my cave of facts that I study and study and study until I become an expert, since data is the only thing I can trust in life; definitely not humans who (unless they’re like me) are, by definition, a curiously odd, feelings-driven species i.e. an irrational creature

My Emotions are puzzling – a strange, sentient anomaly