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My Enneagram: 4, 1, 7 - by Sasha Chapin

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This continues my personal take on the Enneagram, started last week with the post on types 3, 6, and 9. 4, 1, and 7 are referred to as the “frustration” trio, or triad if you’re fancy. These types all have an idealized vision of how things should be, and experience constant frustration at the gap between their ideal and reality. The 4 tries to close it by cultivating specialness, in themselves and their experience. The 1 tries to close this gap through perfection and correction. The 7 tries to close it by reframing everything as positive and seeking constant novelty. Strengths: Depth, creativity, originality. The true aesthetic orientation: a divine discontentment that creates much of humanity’s great art and culture. Weaknesses: Victimhood, moodiness, indulgence. Bitterness. “I’m such a disaster,” says the 4, either smugly or despairingly, after another predictable act of self-sabotage. Core fear: You are fundamentally flawed and irredeemable, and all the preening you do only serves t

My Enneagram: 4, 1, 7 ... Sasha Chapin Nov 25, 2025 138 30 5 Share This continues my personal take on the Enneagram, started last week with the post on types 3, 6, and 9 . 4, 1, and 7 are referred to as the “frustration” trio, or triad if you’re fancy. These types all have an idealized vision of how things should be, and experience constant frustration at the gap between their ideal and reality. The 4 tries to close it by cultivating specialness, in themselves and their experience. The 1 tries to close this gap through perfection and correction. The 7 tries to close it by reframing everything

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