Type Seven
The Excited Enthusiast

Center of Intelligence: Head Center
Motivation: To avoid emotional pain and boredom through planning and excitement
Core Fears: Being bored, in pain, commitment, stagnation, and disappointment

Sevens are upbeat, fun-loving, curious, creative, and distractible. Sevens are motivated to avoid pain and to seek novel experiences to prevent feelings of boredom or emotional distress. Sevens want first and foremost to ensure that they always have positive and exciting plans and are constantly thinking of ways to satiate their need for the new, exciting or unexpected. Sevens are often visionaries who easily see how enjoyable and happy others could be if they expanded their minds. Sevens are mental types and struggle with anxiety; however, they reframe anxiety into opportunities to experience fun and excitement. Fear in the Seven arises when they experience something they find unpleasant, sad, or limiting. They are afraid they will be marred in negativity and drowned in a swamp of pain.

Pain Avoidance and Variety
Sevens prefer dealing with the broad picture and thus pass minutiae to others. They are frequently charming, intellectual, quick, and aspire to be well-traveled, worldly, and enjoy the avant-garde and unusual.

Sevens learn that they won't have time to get caught under a wet blanket if they constantly create novel and fascinating distractions to avoid being in pain. Sevens have quick minds and easily imagine various options; however, this gift can be their weakness. Sevens experience resistance with commitment and can become compulsive about the need for freedom and variation. Many Sevens leave trails of unfinished projects, half-baked ideas, and compelling but ultimately empty promises or plans. If a bigger, better deal comes along, they will gladly abandon old plans, people, or situations for the shinier, newer fascination.

Visionary and Creative
Sevens are creative types, and they are often quite multi-talented. However, they rarely, if ever, take the time to master their various interests and aptitudes. Their fear of being exposed as a charlatan or superficial fraud creates a defense mechanism that allows them to default to being dazzling, entertaining, zany, brilliant storytellers by which others are fascinated. They use their considerable mental curiosity to learn about many different things, and as such, they are renaissance people who leverage their experiences to adapt well to new situations. They are, however, acutely aware their skills, emotions, or knowledge lack depth, which stirs feelings of inferiority.

Inferiority/Superiority and Reframing
When Sevens feel inferior, they compensate by becoming superior. They employ intellectual arrogance, dismissiveness, and a biting or sarcastic sense of humor to place them back into a position of superiority. Ironically, Sevens prefer egalitarian environments. If no one is in charge, then no one can tell them what to do, and they can avoid being trapped in boredom or pain. However, if they can't be equal, they prefer the superior position and may often take on leadership roles and lead others into uncharted (and hopefully exciting) new territory. Overall, Sevens don't like restrictions, rules, regulations, or limitations.

Sevens thrive in environments where they can generate intriguing ideas and options but feel uncomfortable with execution, particularly with detail-oriented work. Sevens have a low tolerance for emotional pain and compulsively reframe any experience that isn't ideal into something interesting, fun, or positive. Compulsive reframing and manic-like activity keep them busy and distracted from pain, but it also prevents them from experiencing their own emotions or the emotions of others.

Boredom and Selfishness
Sevens feel an inner scarcity, and their method of dealing with feelings of emptiness is to fill it with mental planning, activity, and gluttonous satiating of their whims and desires. Gluttony represents the Seven's primary vice. As they consume more and more experiences, they grow cynical and jaded, and soon nothing is compelling, and they require inordinately variation, intensity, and excitement to feel anything at all.

Unhealthy Sevens can be spectacularly selfish, reckless, highly distractible, commitment-phobic, and superficial. When unhealthy, Sevens will say and do whatever is needed to get their way and throw temper tantrums or con other people in service of chasing happiness or getting what they want. Sevens can be champions of self-pampering and treating oneself to whatever indulges arise. They may thus encourage others to participate in excessive behavior (drinking, shopping, sex, partying, etc.) as a projection of their fear of being limited or in pain. They also have trouble limiting themselves and can be prone to addiction to many vices.

When Healthy and Balanced
Healthy Sevens learn to stop and savor their experiences, and following through with commitments creates greater feelings of satisfaction for longer. They understand that negative emotions will not swallow them. Dealing with what they're evading creates greater depth that others appreciate and find equally as interesting as their hyperactive, entertaining façade. At their best, Sevens are resilient and allow all positive or negative experiences without premature reframing, evasiveness, or avoidance. They help others see positive possibilities through their infectious and genuine joie de vivre.

Exemplars: Brad Pitt, Steve Jobs, John F. Kennedy, Lilly Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Dick Van Dyke, Joseph Campbell, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Russell Brand, Erol Flynn, Robert Downey Jr., Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, Shaquille O'Neil, Kevin Hart, Jack Nicholson, Michael Kors, Vincent Price, Bob Fosse, Cher, Ava Gardner, Robin Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Harry Styles, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Irwin, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, Giselle, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchette, Ron Howard, Stephen Spielberg, Liz Minelli, Samuel L. Jackson, Blondie, John Mulaney, Seth McFarlane, Michael Bublé, Britney Spears, Jim Carrey, Cookie Monster, Zendaya, Blake Lively, Eva Mendes, Lil Wayne, Lil John, Salvador Dali, MIA, Andy Cohen