Type Seven: The Epicure

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Note: The following text is being used with permission from the Enneagram Professional Training Program of Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.

The Epicure believes you must keep life up and open to assure a good life. Consequently, Epicures are optimistic, upbeat, possibility- and pleasure-seeking, and adventurous, but also can be pain-avoidant, uncommitted, and self-serving.

Abbreviated Version of the Basic Proposition:

The original state of focused concentration called Holy Work or Constancy, with an ability to travel the spectrum of life fully and freely goes into the background in a world that you perceive frustrates you, limits you, and causes you pain. Consequently, you come to believe that you can escape frustration and pain and assure a good life by going into options, opportunities and adventures [the Fixation or Chief Feature of Planning]. Concurrently, you develop gluttony [the Passion] of the mind for positive possibilities and pleasures. Attention naturally goes to options and keeping life up.