"Fours are the: Individualist, Artist, Over-Analyzer, Mystic, Tastemaker or Romantic"

Spellbind by Clare Cherikoff

Words can be powerful spells. Most of us were taught that it was sticks and stones that break the bones. Words? Not so much. But words have a mostly unexamined grip on our lives. When we believe them, they shape us and they shape us early. In this book for children and parents of all ages, author Clare Cherikoff spins a tale that shows us the seemingly magical spells woven by words, helps us to recognize them and learn how it is possible to live life more freely.

Words we believe + our personality = who we think we are.

The other important theme here is that of human personality. The nine temperaments types are familiar to students of the enneagram. They play a major part of the story and noted with great humor and compassion. A simple and useful mythology arises within the story to explain this often unexamined system to us.

The issues they are facing are no less fascinating than:
1: Who do you think you are?
2: What if that's Not True?

This book is a great addition to this genre of storytelling indeed an homage to J.K. Rowling, etc. It might help SOME PEOPLE to get a better understanding of the 9 Temperament Types, a topic which Clare deftly teaches. If you have that knowledge, it adds to the joy of watching the plot unfold.

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Fours are the: Individualist, Artist, Over-Analyzer, Mystic, Tastemaker or Romantic


Do you:
1. Your emotions more intensely than anyone else?
2. Are you swept up by your moods one minute then dumped in a puddle of despair and disappointment the next?

You may just have the four Temperament type.

The four Temperament distorts one's perception so the person is super aware of their unhappy emotions. It makes the person feel shamefully flawed or tragically special. Arming themselves with a wardrobe of clothes, style, artistic taste, refinement, a sensitive constitution and a tragic air are just some of the ways they try to disguise their flaw.

They aim to be associated with beauty and uniqueness in the hope it will transform them from the common crowd. The Temperament acts like a trance, blinding them from seeing what is real. Instead they divide the world into two categories, common and special. They avoid the common and the ugly and yearn for or are envious of what they deem as special.

What this Temperament sees when they look into the mirror and how they see the world-

The talking style of this Temperament type is called lamentation. It's the trance of the Temperament - it makes them see people as either common or enviably special. Either way they get to lament over how they themselves don't fit in with the common herd; or lament about the enviable qualities they don't have but others do. Regardless of whether their childhood was happy or not, the four trance distorts their perception so they feel it was tragic anyway. So they also get to lament over their miserable past and what could have been. And because they feel they have been abandoned and have a sensitive constitution they also get to lament about that. The four fixation trance really gives them a lot to be miserable about. When they are lamenting, they are trying their best to communicate through a cloud of despair - it isn't easy.

The driving force behind this Temperament is envy. This Temperament has amnesia for anything good in their lives, they hallucinate flaws in themselves while imagining everyone else has it much better than they do.

Did you know?

The Power of Nine is your Key to Happiness and Joy.

There are nine Temperaments. Fifty percent (50%) of your happiness is determined by your Temperament.

Understanding your Temperament Type allows you to work with it and increase your own happiness. The ways individual people inherently view the world/themselves and process information are not the same but do tend to group in different clumps.

Pick the person about that you admire, like and think you are like and click on that number below and listen to the Video.

One way to view this distribution is as nine basic Temperaments Types. They all need different experiences to be really happy.

What do they really want?

Temperament One examples are: Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Martha Stewart, Al Gore, and Tony Randall. These people want to be good. They have high ideals and value and are attracted to situations where those ideals are met. They want to realize all their potential and help others actualize theirs. They envision making the world a better place to live.

Temperament Two examples are: Bill Cosby, Alan Alda, Nancy Reagan, Dolly Parton, and Pat Boone. These people want to know they are loving. They want to nurture others and foster relationships. They value and are attracted to love. They envision making the world a more loving place to live.

Temperament Three examples are: Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Bill Clinton. These people are attracted to and value productivity, industry, and competence. They envision making the world more productive, organized, efficient, and smooth running. They see the universe as chaos and want to really make it a cosmos, a harmonious and orderly system.

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Temperament Four examples are: Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Neil Diamond, and Angelina Jolie. These people want to be unique individuals with lots of originality. They enjoy putting their personal touch on everything in which they are involved. They also value beauty and want to make the world a more beautiful place to live.

Temperament Five examples are: Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Howard Hughes, George Lucas, and Karl Marx. These people long for wisdom, understanding, knowledge, truth. They want to make the world a more enlightened place by discovering what is real and true and making it more intelligible to others.

Temperament Six examples are: Helen Palmer, Michael Moore, Tom Hanks, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, and Mel Gibson. These people want to make the world a safer, more secure, more reliable, more trustworthy place to live and they will question anyone’s authority in their effort to do so. They value loyalty in themselves and others and stand by their commitments.

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Temperament Seven examples are: Robin Williams, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Anthony Quinn, Richard Branson and Terry Bradshaw. These people want to enjoy life and experience all its possibilities. They value joy and variety. They envision making the world a more delightful place to live.

Temperament Eight examples are: Martin Luther King, Jr., FDR, Sean Connery, Donald Trump, and John Wayne. These people want to live life fully and freely. They are attracted to, appreciate, and effectively use power. They envision using their strength to influence others and bring about a more just world where power and resources are equitably distributed.

Temperament Nine examples are: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart, Carl Jung, and Dwight Eisenhower. These people want to feel at one with others and at home in the universe. They value peace, harmony, and unity. They envision making the world a more harmonious, ecumenical, and comfortable place to live for everyone.

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Why do we use numbers?

Names such as: Fours are the: Individualist, Artist, Over-Analyzer, Mystic, Tastemaker or Romantic are commonly used to decribed the Temperaments Types. We use numbers instead of any names.

We use numbers to designate each of the Temperament Types because numbers are value neutral. They imply the whole range of attitudes and behaviors of each Temperament without specifying anything either positive or negative.

The numerical ranking of the Types is not significant. A larger number is no better than a smaller number.

No Temperament Type is inherently better or worse than any other. While all the Temperament Types have unique assets and liabilities, some Types are often more desirable than others in our society. You may not be happy with your particular Type. You may feel that your Type is “limited" in some way. As you learn more about all the Types, you will see that just as each has unique capacities, each has different “limits.”

People do not change from one basic Temperament Type to another. Some Types are more valued in our society than others; it is because of the qualities that society rewards, not because of any superior value of those Types.

The descriptions of the Temperament Types apply equally to males and females, since no Type is inherently masculine or feminine. Not everything in the description of your basic Type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly.

The Just Wait Teen Program

The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program  are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program  is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.

This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships

We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.

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To print a copy of an Free Enneagram ebook

The study of the Nine Temperaments is called the Enneagram and is described in the free ebook listed above. The Enneagram types (Temperaments) are not made up of lists of character traits, but are founded in a person's core values. Each Temperament represents what that person considers something very important to their life such as power, security, harmony, knowledge, fulfillment, i.e.

Your Temperament enables you to make a valuable contributions to your life; but it also causes you to neglect other values, creating a psychological ‘blind spot” for you.

This is why, if you:

“KEEP DOING WHAT YOU BEEN DOING, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GET WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING.”

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