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Type 7 – Symbol

TYPE SEVEN

Enthusiast

Caring for Sevens

“For Sevens more is always better. They want more food, more sauces, more drinks, more fun, more parties, more travel adventures, more money, more attention, more projects, more impactful work, more adrenaline, and, above all, more happiness and side-splitting laughter! They want all the things! Their passion for more makes them prone to have a monkey mind. Distractible Sevens may have 29 windows open on their computer—while simultaneously talking on their phone, listening to music, and watching a movie! Bob Goff, a famous and funny Christian author and speaker, exclaimed, ‘I’m a Seven so my brain looks like fireworks!’” (Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, p. 188 ).

Key Traits

Positivity

Ideation

Spontaneity

Unconventional

Scattered

Hedonistic

Personality Dynamics

These three factors may contribute to someone becoming a Seven:

  1. Family formation role: Cheerleader
  2. Root sin: Self-indulgence
  3. Defense mechanism: Idealizing situations and people

Emotions

The Seven personality is expressed and related to largely through emotions like these:

Felt need: Have pleasure

Head type: Hiding emotions behind thinking

Core emotion: Anxiety about juggling so many balls

Stress emotion: Angry when people disappoint them

Underlying sadness: Only feeling wanted if they make people happy

Emotional alarm: Wandering attention

How Sevens Become Like Jesus

“As the supreme Seven Enthusiast, the Lord Jesus is ‘full of joy’ (Luke 10:21). He brings us ‘more and better life’ than we ever dreamed of (John 10:10 MSG). This joyful life is not a flash in the pan—it produces an enduring contentment that’s cheerful, yet sober” (Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, p. 196).

Key Scripture

Quote - Type 7

“[G]et your head in the game . . . let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness” (1 Peter 1:13 MSG).

Christlike Virtue to Cultivate

Sober contentment

Key Soul Care Practice

Silence

Subsidiary Types

Wing Type(s): Six and/or Eight

Stress Type: One

Growth Type: Five

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