"Sevens Want to Know: Why cannot everyone keep up with me?"

Spellbind by Clare Cherikoff

Words can be powerful spells. Most of us were taught that it was sticks and stones that break the bones. Words? Not so much. But words have a mostly unexamined grip on our lives. When we believe them, they shape us and they shape us early. In this book for children and parents of all ages, author Clare Cherikoff spins a tale that shows us the seemingly magical spells woven by words, helps us to recognize them and learn how it is possible to live life more freely.

Words we believe + our personality = who we think we are.

The other important theme here is that of human personality. The nine temperaments types are familiar to students of the enneagram. They play a major part of the story and noted with great humor and compassion. A simple and useful mythology arises within the story to explain this often unexamined system to us.

The issues they are facing are no less fascinating than:
1: Who do you think you are?
2: What if that's Not True?

This book is a great addition to this genre of storytelling indeed an homage to J.K. Rowling, etc. It might help SOME PEOPLE to get a better understanding of the 9 Temperament Types, a topic which Clare deftly teaches. If you have that knowledge, it adds to the joy of watching the plot unfold.

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Sevens Want to Know: Why cannot everyone keep up with me?
To print a copy of an Free Enneagram ebook

The study of the Nine Temperaments is called the Enneagram and is described in the free ebook listed above. The Enneagram types (Temperaments) are not made up of lists of character traits, but are founded in a person's core values. Each Temperament represents what that person considers something very important to their life such as power, security, harmony, knowledge, fulfillment, i.e.

Your Temperament enables you to make a valuable contributions to your life; but it also causes you to neglect other values, creating a psychological ‘blind spot” for you.

This is why, if you:

“KEEP DOING WHAT YOU BEEN DOING, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GET WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING.”

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Do you:
1. Love to escape into pleasurable activities?
2. Highly imaginative and enthusiastic?
3. All your friends think you are good fun?

You could have the seven Temperament type.

The strategy of the seven is to turn life into a fun game. Sounds like fun doesn't it? Well it is. It's only a problem when a person skates so lightly upon life or is so slap dash they miss out on some of the deeper aspects of life. They can be so busy running to the next adventure or the next high they end up spending more time running than enjoying life.

The seven looking into the mirror and at the world This is how the seven Temperament type would hate to see themselves when they look in the mirror. They arm themselves with jokes, happy vibes, fun times and shallow concepts as a way to avoid the feeling of being incomplete or not okay somehow. So when they look at the world they see a playground to travel around and explore. The idea is to have more and more experiences as a way to feel good about themselves.

So what is wrong with that you may ask? Well nothing except that each new experience is never enough. This is the trance of the seven Temperament. It stops the person from ever feeling satisfied.

The talking style of the seven is called telling stories. The seven will see you as someone who could do with lightening up, maybe in need of some bawdy stories to make you laugh. Otherwise you may get serious and that would be a bit of a downer and this is to be avoided if at all possible. The joke below belongs to the comedian Billy Connolly.

The seven hallucinates the old as boring or painful and the new as being better and shinier than it is.

They are a slave to new experiences not realizing that going on an endless search for the new is the cause of their problems.

Did you know?

The Power of Nine is your Key to Happiness and Joy.

There are nine Temperaments. Fifty percent (50%) of your happiness is determined by your Temperament.

Understanding your Temperament Type allows you to work with it and increase your own happiness. The ways individual people inherently view the world/themselves and process information are not the same but do tend to group in different clumps.

Pick the person about that you admire, like and think you are like and click on that number below and listen to the Video.

One way to view this distribution is as nine basic Temperaments Types. They all need different experiences to be really happy.

What do they really want?

Temperament One examples are: Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Martha Stewart, Al Gore, and Tony Randall. These people want to be good. They have high ideals and value and are attracted to situations where those ideals are met. They want to realize all their potential and help others actualize theirs. They envision making the world a better place to live.

Temperament Two examples are: Bill Cosby, Alan Alda, Nancy Reagan, Dolly Parton, and Pat Boone. These people want to know they are loving. They want to nurture others and foster relationships. They value and are attracted to love. They envision making the world a more loving place to live.

Temperament Three examples are: Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Bill Clinton. These people are attracted to and value productivity, industry, and competence. They envision making the world more productive, organized, efficient, and smooth running. They see the universe as chaos and want to really make it a cosmos, a harmonious and orderly system.

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Temperament Four examples are: Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Neil Diamond, and Angelina Jolie. These people want to be unique individuals with lots of originality. They enjoy putting their personal touch on everything in which they are involved. They also value beauty and want to make the world a more beautiful place to live.

Temperament Five examples are: Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Howard Hughes, George Lucas, and Karl Marx. These people long for wisdom, understanding, knowledge, truth. They want to make the world a more enlightened place by discovering what is real and true and making it more intelligible to others.

Temperament Six examples are: Helen Palmer, Michael Moore, Tom Hanks, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, and Mel Gibson. These people want to make the world a safer, more secure, more reliable, more trustworthy place to live and they will question anyone’s authority in their effort to do so. They value loyalty in themselves and others and stand by their commitments.

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Temperament Seven examples are: Robin Williams, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Anthony Quinn, Richard Branson and Terry Bradshaw. These people want to enjoy life and experience all its possibilities. They value joy and variety. They envision making the world a more delightful place to live.

Temperament Eight examples are: Martin Luther King, Jr., FDR, Sean Connery, Donald Trump, and John Wayne. These people want to live life fully and freely. They are attracted to, appreciate, and effectively use power. They envision using their strength to influence others and bring about a more just world where power and resources are equitably distributed.

Temperament Nine examples are: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart, Carl Jung, and Dwight Eisenhower. These people want to feel at one with others and at home in the universe. They value peace, harmony, and unity. They envision making the world a more harmonious, ecumenical, and comfortable place to live for everyone.

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Why do we use numbers?

Sevens are the:. Visionary, Epicure, Entertainer, Optimist, Adventurer, Rationalizer, Optionist. We use numbers rather than these names.

We use numbers to designate each of the Temperament Types because numbers are value neutral. They imply the whole range of attitudes and behaviors of each Temperament without specifying anything either positive or negative.

The numerical ranking of the Types is not significant. A larger number is no better than a smaller number.

No Temperament Type is inherently better or worse than any other. While all the Temperament Types have unique assets and liabilities, some Types are often more desirable than others in our society. You may not be happy with your particular Type. You may feel that your Type is “limited" in some way. As you learn more about all the Types, you will see that just as each has unique capacities, each has different “limits.”

People do not change from one basic Temperament Type to another. Some Types are more valued in our society than others; it is because of the qualities that society rewards, not because of any superior value of those Types.

The descriptions of the Temperament Types apply equally to males and females, since no Type is inherently masculine or feminine. Not everything in the description of your basic Type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly.

Additional Resources

More information about Clare Cherikoff teacher, NLP, the enneagram, seminar presenter, documentary maker, author, animator and cartoonist

Home of the best-selling Enneagram authors Don Riso and Russ Hudson, and the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator. Training, workshops, online testing, and discussion board

Enneagram Worldwide offers you a unique experience of the Enneagram through our Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition, founded by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.

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Awareness To Action International helps professionals improve performance and reach their full potential through our practical, business-minded application of the Enneagram model of personality styles

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