The Enneagram Test is a personality test that describes each person into 9 different categories. It's a model of the human psyche that describes your basic personality, healthy and unhealthy traits, and behaviors. This multiple-choice test will analyze your answers and aid in self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-development.
Type 5, aka The Investigator, is described as intense, innovative, yet secretive and isolated. Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Fives want to find out why things are and the way they are so they feel a strong need to test the truth of most assumptions about themselves.
Yet they can become detached and intense so they can run into problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. Investigators are motivated by wanting to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, and to figure out ways of defending themselves from threats from the environment.
Investigators' basic fear is feeling useless, helpless, and incapable. Their insecurities to function successfully in the world is where their pursuit of knowledge emerges. As a result, Fives spend a lot of time observing and contemplating. They internalize their knowledge and gain a feeling of self-confidence.
On the other hand, Fives desire to be capable and competent. So they need one area in which they have a degree of expertise to allow themselves to feel capable and connected. That can be math, rock n roll, car mechanics, etc. Their intense focus can lead to remarkable discoveries and innovations.
Examples are Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jane Goodall.
