Solution Master (8w7-5w6-3w4)

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The Solution Master: Common MBTI Type

The most common personality type to be The Solution Master archetype in Enneagram is the ENTJ. This archetype is a true thinking personality, therefore they often remove their feelings when evaluating and determining how to best navigate the external world, which is what you would expect from an ENTJ leading with extroverted thinking and has inferior introverted feeling.

Let’s clear up some misconceptions that are going around about ENTJs, and how they tend to align in the Enneagram system.

Enneagram 8 & Inferior Fi

The Enneagram 8 isn’t simply about power and action, but rather at the core of this type is the fear of being controlled and put in a vulnerable position. Much like how 8s are described in Enneagram, ENTJs also struggle with allowing themselves to be put in vulnerable situations in life, especially when it comes their own emotional vulnerabilities.

For a lot of ENTJs, the one emotion they can identify with readily and understand completely is anger, which is the core motivation of an Enneagram 8, as they use anger to set boundaries in the external world (typically lending itself more to extroversion than introversion).

8w7 is a common core for ENTJs.

Enneagram 3

The Enneagram 3 is another personality type that often struggles to allow their inner feelings to surface, and to make their emotions useful in some way. This type often places more value on what they’re doing rather than who they are, therefore this can lead to 3s being at odds with their internal self. This type is concerned with being competent and how that can lead to a successful image.

3w4 is also a common core for ENTJs, and you’ll likely not find many 3w2s in this MBTI type. The 3w4 is known as being The Professional, which is a type that comes with both confidence (3) and internal doubt/shame (wing 4), therefore leading them down rabbit holes of self-improvement. This is an area that ENTJs invest a lot of personal time in.

Enneagram 5, Enneagram 7, & ENTJ Introversion

All of you core 7 ENTJs (or 7 fixers) out there are not who you think you are, because Enneagram 7 typically favors dominant extroverted perception, which would be Se and Ne (ESTP, ENTP, ESFP, and ENFP). The Enneagram 7 very rarely shows up in the ENTJ personality type, as I’m convinced you would hit lottery before finding an Enneagram 7 ENTJ. Sorry, ESTPs and ENTPs who think you’re ENTJs, but you might want to rethink your type.

ENTJs are highly concerned with being competent, making sure they’re focused on their long-term goals by diving deeply into subjects, accumulating factual data to be useful in the external world, and constantly trying to remove their own subjectivity to be “objective” on any one topic. These are common traits you’ll also find in the Enneagram 5, whereas the Enneagram 7 is flighty and too concerned with an array of subjects rather than having a singular focus that ENTJs are known for. The Enneagram 7 is not compatible with dominant Te and auxiliary Ni, as ENTJs are too rationally organized to be jumping around in life seeking out “fun experiences”. At the end of the day, ENTJs are “thinkers” more than they are “go with the flow” doers.

ENTJs also report in large numbers of having moments of introversion, especially when they’re focused more-so on building up their careers, and obtaining the competency required of them to be successful. The Enneagram 5 is a withdrawn type, which is something that you’ll noticed with ENTJs when they’re really trying to understand something in their lives, and how they will avoid acting until they feel they've obtained enough information to be competent and capable of achieving what they’re trying to do.

ENTJs with the 358 archetype will also report being more on the introverted side if they have Sx/Sp or Sp/Sx as their instinctual variants. It is not uncommon of them to mistype themselves as INTJs despite having most of the typical ENTJ traits in their personality.

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The Solution Master Archetype

The Solution Master is a personality who's concerned with overcoming the adversities they face in life. When this archetype encounters complex problems, then they dive deeply into the issue to obtain competency, whether that's from their good observational skills that allows them to harness useful information (5), or their need to learn methodologies that will lead them to a life of success (3). Once they have a complete understanding of the problem at hand, then they'll use their will to enforce their solutions onto the outside world (8). However, the methods they use to obtain their solutions come at the price of rejecting their deeper feelings, because they don't want to get lost in how they feel about their vulnerabilities (8), to have their observations of the outside world translated subjectively (5), or stray away from their goals as a result of emotional turmoil (3), therefore they apply a mind-over-matter approach to life that makes the more of a thinker than a feeler.

Whether the Enneagram 8 is the core of an individual or simply a fix in their personality, this archetype doesn’t produce the most assertive 8. They’re aware of how their anger will appear to the external world (3), and they often will result in withdrawing from situations to observe for further understanding to avoid incompetency (5). They can be assertive (8), intellectual (5), and charming (3). Just when you think you have this archetype figured out, they tend to surprise you with what they know or how they’ll react to any given situation, whether you’re getting their aggression or charm. 

To the outside observer, the 358 can come off as blunt and cold as a result of this archetype seeing their interactions with others as being a transfer of information rather than an opportunity for shared vulnerability. Just as they do in their own lives, they want others to remove their feelings from their problems to find solutions that will fix the issue at hand, which might be seen as a form of rejection from the more tender-hearted archetypes who need emotional validation instead of cold strategies.

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When you're understood by another person, then that understanding strengthens your connections with others to properly build a relationship. They have a firm understanding of your identity at that point. However, to need validation of your identity means that you're confused of your own value, therefore you need others to confirm something about yourself. The key to confidence is understanding that you don't need others to get you to have validation. A truly confident person is aware of their own value and how that forms their identity.

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I'm looking for something that makes me feel alive, to the point where life is intoxicating. They say I'm an intense person, and they're absolutely correct.

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At some point in life, you have to stop feeling bad for yourself. Get off of your ass and do something you are proud of for once. We all get stuck in a rut and feel worthless at times, but you're only as worthless as you allowed yourself to be.

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You have to let go of your pride. Growth does not come from being blind with arrogance. Confidence has nothing to prove, but rather it just is.

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I can spend a lifetime beating myself up because of my failures, or I can spend a lifetime trying to understand how I can gain the necessary strength needed to live through my adversity.

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Sometimes the best lessons learned in life are not the ones that come with ease. There is always wisdom to harvest from the worst parts of yourself.

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