Bruce Anderson
The intensity of 5s is one of the traits that is more suggested than defined in the enneagram literature. We need focus and concentration and with that, of course, comes the intensity. When someone or some thing excites me, I tend to go overboard and act like a Seven—at least that’s what people close to me say. And I admit I can be as 7 as they come when I’m in my stride, but I soon become overloaded and retreat to 5, and it takes some one or something very special to really exci...

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