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TYPE 5: THE OBSERVER Fives focus on intellectual understanding and accumulating knowledge. They are often scholars or technical experts because of their keen perception and analytical ability. Fives value privacy and personal autonomy, and other people may be experienced as intrusive. The ability to detach from other people and from emotional pressure provides personal freedom, but also may create loneliness. Many people of this type are intellectually brilliant or knowledgeable, while feelings and relationships present an enormous challenge. For others, family and friends are important, but they still require much time alone to pursue their own interests. Fives need to balance their tendency to withdraw or withhold from people by reaching out to others, even if that means discomfort or conflict. • Strengths: Scholarly, perceptive, self-reliant • Problems: Isolated, overly intellectual, stingy • Speaking style: Rational and content-oriented, most comfortable in their area of expertise. Not big on “small talk” • Lower emotional habit: Avarice or hoarding, which means holding on to information or other resources based on the fear of shortages, either in oneself or the environment Higher emotion: Non-attachment, which is letting go in order to be available for replenishment • Archetypal challenge: Participating in life with feelings, and integrating the inner and outer worlds

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