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Solar System Planets including Pluto aligned in a planet shape

Credit: Ika Abuladze

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Sarah Truong / Hudson & Rex

Sarah Truong’s personality in Hudson & Rex, portrayed by Mayko Nguyen, reflects the steady compassion, procedural discipline, and relationship-focused support typical of an ISFJ personality type. Her careful forensic methodology, loyalty to those she loves, and strong ethical convictions align closely with Enneagram 2w1, making her a clear example of an ISFJ 2w1 character. Through her nurturing presence, meticulous investigative work, and principled decision-making, Sarah demonstrates how empathy and professionalism can coexist in high-pressure criminal investigations.

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Have you watched Avatar III? What do you think about Varang? I think she definitely is Se-dom but I'm torn between 6w7 and 8w7 (she goes along with Quaritch a bit too readily for an 8, I think).

Sadly, I haven't seen it yet and might have to wait for home streaming. I wanted to go before Christmas but Life got in the way.

From previews/trailers she looks like an 8w7. But doesn't she have a monologue or something where she talks about how Ewya didn't save them from some bad thing that happened as a tribe, and so she doesn't have faith now? If so, that could point toward core 6 -- I trusted in my authority, it let me down, so now I want to kill it with fire!

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BTW I watched this last night and she is 100% 8w7.

Will type her when I have the time. She's a great character.

But no, none of her behaviors were 6. Her god raining down fire and ash on her village just triggered her ultra-aggression and rage, rather than causing a 6 crisis of indecision. Every single time, no matter what situation she is in, she asserts herself. Quaritch only wins her over because he offers her an "equal" — something "you have never had before," which is one 8 recognizing another's equal power.

IMO, the movie should have been 90% her and 10% everyone else, lol.

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tritype thoughts

Interestingly, I’ve noticed a lot of self-reporting reveals (unconsciously, most of the time) people’s image fixes.

3 fixers subtly talk about what they’ve accomplished, what they are good at, how rational they are, how competent they are, how desirable they are, depending on what they value. EG, “I got another chapter written today” (high word count) or “I don’t know why people get so upset about such silly things” (competency, broadcasting “I’m emotionally stable and detached”).

2 fixers make sure you hear about how well they take care of people, the nice things they do for others, tell you that they are happy to help, or inject unsolicited advice (depending on the core / assertive levels in their tritype), and justify behaviors as “I am only trying to help,” “a good person does…”

4 fixers subtly inject how much worse off they are from other people, how tragic things are for them, how much deeper they are and less satisfied with the mundane, how loss or pain frame their lives, or a sense of yearning for the things they cannot have (“There never seems to be enough XYZ to go around…”).

Head fixes are subtler over e-mail, but usually fairly loud in person. 5 fixers never solicit external advice, and you rarely get their thinking “in progress” so much as it’s announced after the fact, solid and fully formed, and with no invitation for you to critique it. 6 fixers are self-deprecating and warm, but solicit your advice and then argue with it. 7 fixers have an assertive “I will get what I want” energy that drives their sense of fun and need for things to be stimulating.

Gut fixers are a lot easier to sense, IMO. There is a rigidity and properness with 1, that is inflexible; the person with the tight smile and the mild disapproval to encounter things it dislikes, or a hot flash of anger and “scolding” that turns into inner criticism (again, depending on the fixes above it). The 9 fixers are generally pleasant, easygoing, go-along-with-you, but I-actually-mean-to-ignore-everything-you-just said folks. They feel fluid and less critical than the 1. 8s are a push of energy and aggression, the more you say no, the harder they lean on you, and the less apologetic they are about it depends on what fixes are in charge. Someone with two super-ego fixes above the 8 is going to rationalize/justify and feel guilt about being seen as too aggressive (“this is for your own good,” “it’s dangerous, what you are doing; stop being an idiot’) in a way others won’t. Their anger comes on fast and hard and fizzles out again.

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Thank you for your detailed reply…. 6w7 629/639 so/sp it is! I think so/sp makes a lot of sense for me but am not sure how to tell people’s subtypes in general. What are signs that someone is blind in each subtype? I feel like we all are blind in each at different times of our lives if that makes sense! Like when I am very very busy I am less focused on sp things even though I do love to plan for the future so don’t feel very sp-blind

I like what John Luckovich said in his book on the instincts, that your blind spot is what you’re willing to sacrifice for the other two instincts to co-exist, so for a sexual blind, it would take a huge upheaval to agree to upend my life / create chaos and risk losing autonomy or security (sp) and also risk losing my social status or other relationships (soc) to be with this person. That an sx-blind is going to think about those things first, even if they feel an “intense” pull toward someone (what is this going to cost me, in sp/soc terms?).

So, some movie about some housewife who has been content in her boring marriage all her life, until a passionate stranger comes along and wakens her sexual instinct is… a sexual blind story, because the actual sx user has been living life on the edge, pursuing whatever intense passions come their way, and prioritizing those at the cost of stability (sp) or reputation (soc) ALL ALONG.

For example, one sp-blind I know says she has been homeless and starving before, but she didn’t care, because she “only needed” her love for sustenance. That’s sp-blind. “I don’t care about my physical comfort, my security, whether there’s food on the table, as long as I am plugged into my electrical socket, which is you.”

To an sp user, that sounds nuts. You can’t live off sexual attraction and intensity alone… right?!?

A social blind does not have any concept of why what randos think about them matters; they are confused about why they may not get hired based on social-related concepts (looks, behavior in public, willingness to get along with others, reputation, status). They also don’t see any point in developing casual relationships, because they don’t have the sp + soc notion that relationships = social currency that comes in useful. So, they may not get that promotion they want, because they haven’t made connections at the office.

Sexual blinds won’t usually sacrifice stability, comfort, and autonomy, nor their reputation, influence, or connections, to pursue what feels “reckless” to them (the sexual instinct). They will dip into sx sometimes, but it feels thrilling and short-lived and overwhelming, because it’s a car they are not used to driving. The idea of being lost in someone else, and moving on as soon as the fire is gone, seems less important than creating a life together (sp and soc).

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Does everyone on the Ne-Si axis see multiple possibilities, even the Ne inferiors?

Yes, although with Ne inferior, it depends on how much the ISJ values Ne and/or sees themselves as a creative person. Sometimes an ISJ will shut down because they need to change their life, and it feels like there are too many options, and choosing just one could cause them to miss out on something even better. But yes, Ne always expands. Always. It wants more options, more possibilities, more creativity, more things to think about, more possible reasons, just more. The higher the Ne, the easier it is to cycle through possibilities without holding onto any of them too tightly; the lower the Ne, the more difficult it is to change trajectories quickly.

Ne in its purest form is… total ease with new thinking and ways of thinking, which is why ENPs cycle through so many belief systems and possibilities and interpretations and abandon them for the next thought; inferior Ne doesn’t want to let go of what matters to Si and the judging function, so it is a lot slower and more reluctant to embrace “unusual” thinking that threatens what they care about (if I believe this, I have to let go of that, and that has served me well).

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What are the most notable differences in unhealthy ISFPs and ISFJs?

"unhealthy" in this context usually means over-reliance on their dominant functions and suppression of the lower ones.

So, an unhealthy ISFP thinks only their thoughts and feelings matter, that their voice deserves to be heard while all voices that offend them deserve to be silenced (immature Fi). They act fully on all of their feelings in the moment / are impulsive, and lack the kind of self-awareness that Ni would give them about what things mean to them or how it reflects on them if they were more 'internal' / reflective.

An unhealthy ISFJ is over-reliant on Si and their own personal experiences; nobody else's experiences matter when compared to their own -- "that isn't how I experienced it, so it must be fake." They may also either over-care what people think about them and people please with Fe, without questioning why they are doing it or what it says about their character to go along with everything (lack of strong Ti / self-awareness) OR suppress Fe development and use it to try and get people to match their own mood (it's appropriate to this situation to feel this way, and if you're not, you're ruining it for everyone else...) rather than learning to understand and respect others for their individual feelings (Fe and Ti).

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Is it true 6s are afraid of the spotlight, of being singled out as the best in a group because notoriety could invite attacks or envy? I've read 6s want to be seen as an everyman, not better or different from others. And is it true 6s are self depricating? Why?

I can only speak from my own experience.

I HATE being the center of attention, but I absolutely want to be the best at the things I care about (3 fix). I will work my ass off in obscurity to be the best novelist in the world, but when too many people focus their attention on me at once, I feel intense discomfort. I don't want to do book tours, or interviews, or be fixated upon. It just feels deeply discomforting and entrapping.

But fame also comes with... criticism. Criticism might run along the lines of the self-criticisms I have against myself, and reinforce my fear that I'm not competent. It would prove to me that the things I fear are true about myself are true in reality.

6s are afraid of being wrong, exposed, humiliated, proven to be a bad person unless they stay humble. Their superego reads humility as a good thing, something that keeps them from being a bad or arrogant person. Arrogant people irritate them, and they want to take them down a notch. Arrogant people seem to be self-confident, and that's something 6s lack, since we're always our own worst critics.

A 6 may know they are better at something than someone else, but it seems more humble and likable of them to say "nah, it was nothing" when complimented on it. And yes, we are self-deprecating, because we know nothing makes a person like you more faster than to be likable, and in our mind, likable people aren't arrogant, don't put on airs, and can laugh at themselves. We get to our own flaws before you do, so that you can't stick 'em to us later; it's our way of signaling that yeah, we know we overreact, are goofy, can't figure out how to put up a light bulb, etc.

Most comedians are 6w7/7w6, and self-deprecating stories full of humor are part of what make them so funny. If a 6 can make you feel like we don't think we're better than you are, then you're going to accept and like us and not want to come after us for anything -- and we ultimately want to feel secure in our little corner of the universe. Secure means nobody attacks me over anything and just lets me be. In a way, we use these tactics to strive up our line toward 9, so that we can feel peaceful and content without having to worry that your dislike of me is gonna make my life harder.