Slides on Practical Emotional Intelligence and enneagram personality type 4 (part 1)

1. Practical Emotional
Intelligence
Volume 11:
Personality Type 4:
‘The Individualist’
(part 1 of 2)
Adopted from the book ‘Stop Being
Your Self’ by Ronan Gallagher

2. Type 4: General
Unconscious Behaviours
Type 4: Basic Desire In Life
Type 4: Self-Image
Type 4: Childhood
Type 4: Result of
Imbalanced Personality

3. Type 4:
General
Unconscious
Behaviours
Focusing on what is missing in your life.
Feelings of being different and unique and not being
understood by anyone.
Intense emotional expression causing unease in
others.
Dismissing small chat or relationships with no
emotion or meaning, as pointless.
Mind always in the hurtful past or the perfect future.
Viewing your paid job as a support to your real job or
calling.

4. Type 4:
Basic
Desire in
Life
The desire to have an
identity and be oneself.
Efforts to acquire an identity
become extreme, resulting
in an unconscious focus on
being different or unique.

5. Type 4: Self-
Image
A totally unique
person, unlike any
other human
being. Normal
qualities and
characteristics do
not apply to them.
A deeply intuitive
individual, with an
ability to sense
others’ feelings and
discern for their
quality and
authenticity.
Someone that can
see the ‘unseen’,
understands the
metaphysical and
universal
connectedness.
Honest and sincere
with a heightened
self-awareness.

6. Type 4: Childhood
Feel that they were abandoned by their parents.
May feel estranged from parents, that they are
too different to their parents, to be related.
The feelings of abandonment make them feel
like they are missing something or not complete.

7. Type 4: Result of Imbalanced Personality
Being jealous and resentful to others that have qualities and emotional stability.
Feeling that missing something in life, that have lost some essential part of themselves.
A relentless striving for something to make them complete. The perfect and magical
relationship, job, or place to live, is only around the corner and will make them complete.
Generally oblivious to the very positive aspects to their life.

8. Thank you
very much for
reading!
Would love to hear your thoughts
or comments! Part 2 coming next
week.