Fives illuminate what can be known and are a source of wisdom and knowledge in a world of questions and uncertainty. Type Five is perhaps the most withdrawn of all the Enneagram types, their withdrawal a means of finding the mental and cerebral room to understand and master reality. Fives are intrinsically afraid they don’t possess the capacity within themselves to distinguish reality or assess what is fundamentally real. This explains the Basic Desire of type Five, which is to uncover the essence of truth. Without the clarity of an answer, who is the Five but a lost wanderer in search of
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