Gus / Sweet Tooth MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Gus / Sweet Tooth? Gus / Sweet Tooth is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 7w6 - sx/so - 748 in Enneagram, SLUAI in Big 5, IEE in Socionics.
Gus is undoubtedly an ENFP with 7 as his enneagram. Furthermore, I’m interested to hear arguments for him being a Social 7. Throughout the series his personality resembles a Sexual 7 more. One of Gus’ defining qualities is his vivid imagination, which results in his optimism and even naïveté. Below is a description of the Sexual 7 that ties this resemblance well (From Beatrice Chestnut’s "The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge") “Individuals with the Sexual Seven subtype are gluttons for things of the higher world-for optimistically seeing things as they could be in the ideal world of their imaginations. Sexual Sevens are dreamers with a need to imagine something better than stark, ordinary reality. These Sevens have a passion for embellishing everyday reality, for being too enthusiastic, and for idealizing things and seeing the world as better than it actually is. Their gluttony gets expressed as a need for idealization.” His imaginary creation of straw animals, snowmen, and more is nothing short of idealization and also fits within his dominant Ne. Part of his imagination was to escape an overwhelming loneliness (which enneagram 7s often encounter in childhood contributing to their development), and the Sexual 7’s imagination serves as an overcompensation to a similar desire. As Chestnut states, “In this way, Sexual Sevens express a need to fantasize, a need to dream, or a need for rose-colored glasses. These Sevens have a tendency to be too happy. They display a need to live in a charmed reality, to fantasize-to live in a world seen as an overcompensation that reflects an unconscious desire to deny or avoid the painful or boring or frightening parts of life. Sexual Sevens tend to experience an underlying fear of getting stuck in these kinds of feelings and so take refuge in optimism. This Seven’s need to dream is a form of idealization-a passion for viewing life as it could be or as they imagine it to be; a tendency to live for the sweetness in a dreamed-of or imagined world rather than for the ordinary and not-so-interesting reality. They don’t want to pay attention to anything bad or difficult that might be happening.” For his variant, sx/so is more likely. There are many instances in which he actively goes against his fear by placing himself in dangerous (let alone life-threatening) situations which contributes to the lack of a self-preservation instinct. The following is part of a description for sx/so in enneagram 7. “This subtype has a lot of energy, crazy, intense energy and this energy is going to find a way to manifest. This subtype of Seven can have the biggest extremes in behavior and with material success in life. With the self-pres instinct last in the stacking they aren’t afraid of taking risks, so they sometimes become very successful, as in the case of rock stars, but they typically also take too many risks, look for too many easy ways out. With the self-pres least developed, they can become dependent on others to add a much needed stabilizing element to their busy hedonistic lives.” He doesn’t fit the description perfectly, but the gist is there. His extremes vary from naive optimism to destructiveness in hardships, and a risky temperament is evident in his personality.
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