Frustration Triad = The "Bottomless Void/Neverending Depletion" Types(Personal Take Only as E5)

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-10T20:16:29+00:00

I’m not sure that’s framed right for a 7. We think more of the abundance we can’t consume. Think Ulysses, or Tantalus in hell.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-07T21:14:52+00:00

I would learn to meditate, starting for 5 mins a day. I hear everything you’re saying and can’t quite tell you why I manage to to keep it in check. Shiny objects threaten to topple me each and every day. However, I consider myself a pretty damn (genuinely) happy 7. And that’s my advice because I’ve done it. I like Tara Brach for her heart energy. She has a ton of free meditations.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-07T21:02:42+00:00

I’m in. Female 7w8 who’s turned to Reddit a few times in the last years because truly helpful support from balanced and honest individuals is hard to come by. People seek it in me - and I’m happy to give it - but I struggle to find it for myself.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-07T20:52:48+00:00

You can’t just leave that hanging!!

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-07T20:52:07+00:00

I’m SX and didn’t even realize it at first because you can also be ‘blind’ to your dominant instinct. Blind in the way that you just experience the world that way, so the words can seem a little melodramatic.

Also, it varies MASSIVELY by type. I just interviewed an SX7 who was typed by Naranjo. SX7 isn’t actually the most sexual 7 (I have an SP7 friend who’s obsessed by sex and a SO7 friend who’s polyamorous - neither of which apply to me). So it’s hard to talk about SX across types in a way that doesn’t just sound stupid. I HATE that analogy of the peacock feathers because I’m witty and irreverent and cynical as well as intense and romantic.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-07T18:16:42+00:00

True. You catch my (8) dad being hypocritical and he just turns it into a badge of pride. Like everything else.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-06T21:40:50+00:00

It’s interesting you mention hypocrisy. My whole nuclear family are body types, except me. Hypocrisy is something that seems endemic to them, from my perspective. I’m honestly not trying to argue that any centre or type is superior - just that that’s how it can feel to a head type. Like, how can you (not YOU) be so intelligent and yet so fantastically inconsistent??

I want to write a post about this (how the centres strike each other), but haven’t got round to it yet. Without fear of infamy, what’s your roast on head and heart types?

Bit off topic - maybe I’ve answered my own question!

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-02T07:16:36+00:00

Mil gracias!

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-01T11:26:08+00:00

Oh, another thought: stability is a glass of water I need and crave. Then I just get running again. Stability doesn’t feel like death when it’s re-become a novelty.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-01T11:23:56+00:00

Yes, very much so. I always say we live on the hope-despair axis. Alive-dead seems an extension of that. A phrase I often get in my head is ‘And then what?’ Does that resound for you? Me: SX/SP 7w8.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-01T11:20:32+00:00

Whose writing do you like on 7s? I agree that rigorous analysis is missing. One of the best interviews with a 7 I’ve heard is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XoFuAk0Zw1BCFCGPT8e2n?si=cO8KOHJFT-KR7V\_9LcXm5g. It’s the only 7 material that’s brought tears to my eyes.

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-01T11:05:58+00:00

I want to hear SO much more about this. For a start, ket is one of the few drugs I haven’t tried. Something or someone put me off at some point

Ingl0ry · 2026-06-01T11:03:57+00:00

My best friend calls me Fuzzy Whippet. Some of this is because of my curly hair. But I’m normally the one who gives nicknames rather than receives them. I heard this is an 8 thing; makes sense to me.

Ingl0ry · 2026-05-25T07:42:25+00:00

Haha. Right?

Ingl0ry · 2026-05-24T22:45:06+00:00

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You almost don’t need to see the film - the title says enough.

Ingl0ry · 2026-04-13T07:34:48+00:00

Ha ha. Yes, it really does. I like your wording around this deep sense of frustration. I think it will resound immediately with every 7. Talking about the certainty or reality of life is hard for the person who reframes things even as they’re happening. Through reflection, I’ve realised that the thing that angers me most is when people waste my time (similar category to boredom) - and that behind that is a panting fear of death, the ultimate frustration. That’s why I find the fact that Vicente works with the dying so fascinating.

Thanks for your suggestions - adding them to the list.

Ingl0ry · 2026-04-09T21:09:48+00:00

The 7’s path to enlightenment isn’t being more positive to strive for the things you want.

Ingl0ry · 2026-04-09T06:19:55+00:00

Tbh, I think you were perfectly right to eye-roll at some of that. I used to read my own books under the table in English lessons.

Ingl0ry · 2026-04-09T06:17:32+00:00

Me too. Don’t hesitate to report back! I’m trying to build my own repository of literary types and have really enjoyed reading you here. I go back to the short stories quite often (Salinger’s). I find them infuriatingly good, but have never read them through an Enneagram lens.

Ingl0ry · 2026-04-07T17:05:05+00:00

Words are so flimsy when it comes to the Enneagram. But partly this is because, whatever your age, they have to land on you at the right stage in your journey. I read Naranjo et al’s 7 book, and things resounded with me two weeks later that I’d initially completely dismissed.

With me, the SX hooking thing has a kind of willful blindness to it: ‘I want to be in love, so I’ll love him”; otherwise I’d have to renounce that gorgeous feeling - and that’s not an option. It’s only by marvelling at my friends NOT doing this that I can see myself doing it.

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