Type Five Subtypes - An Overview

This video is part of an ongoing series on Enneagram Subtypes. Here Bea Chestnut explains the Self-Preservation, Social and Sexual Type Five subtypes.

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[rickmoede]

Bea, after seeing a number of lousy YouTube videos on Fives, I find yours delightful for two reasons: 1) You speak in terms of tendencies, not absolutes, and 2) There's some inherent nuance in going into subtypes. I do prefer going into stackings when possible, though. As a SX/SO Five, I've never met a more outgoing Five, and I doubt I ever will. I also don't imagine I look particularly Fivish, and I know, in the few opportunities I've given people to guess my type, nobody has ever guessed it correctly. This includes two or more professional Enneagram teachers. That stacking tends to shatter Fivish stereotypes.

[froboy]

0:35 self preservation 5
2:23 social 5
5:16 sexual 5

[darkrebel]

I'm a Sx 5 with a very strong 4 wing. This combination makes for an extremely vivid inner life

[NeuroplasticityReprogram]

First time I heard the Artistry/Musical inspiration correlation..I am a 5. Music has been my greatest Passion since I was little. Been drumming & playing guitar ever since. Music is my escape, my emotional outlet that I can utilize to transmute anything I may have repressed. I feel very lucky I've managed to find such a fulfilling endeavor to invest my energy into, it gives back so much more than I put in, endless joy. Many thanks for sharing your energy & wisdom. - All the Best

[MundoCasmo]

These videos helped me discover I am a sexual 5. I thought I was a 5w4. But sexual type describes me very well.

[therealcoolc]

Honestly, all three subtypes resonate with me, but also none of them fits perfectly. I care about security/ boundaries, social connection and I have a soft side. My 4 and 6 wings were perfectly balanced the last time I took the test.

[antoniofdez]

SX/SP 5 here. Excellent job teaching about 5s, Bea.

[thescorchingshadow]

ime, sx5s are more emotionally expressive (but also much more intellectual) than sp4s, which is interesting considering the former is a head type and latter is a heart type

[stu]

If 5s are the most introverted of the 9 types and SP 5s are the most 5 of 5s, does that mean the SP 5s are the most introverted of all 27 type/subtype?

[muma]

the social one, skips over what? Yet lives in the every day kind of life... which one is it?

[DJP]

I feel like SP5's have the least advantages. Being an SO5 means your intellectualism is most useful and put to serving the world, and you have better networking opportunities, while an SP5 just has little willpower, is the least confrontational and wants to just hide away from society.

[tokekw]

Cool, are the interviews somewhere else than on youtube?

[jaredvaughan]

A lot of us 5s, like Elon Musk who lives in a $50 000 house, don't even want to own a home.