u/lukore

I saw a post earlier about Afanasyev’s concept of high and low Will and how it deals with the idea of agency, low Will embodying determinism and high Will embodying the concept of free will. It explained that due to that, it is a misconception that all individuals with high Will embody the ideal traits necessary to succeed within a capitalist system. According to the post, low Will types have a more adaptive posture toward reality which might make them more likely to “succeed within a pre-existing framework.”

So I’m curious to see what others’ volition placements are and what that’s like for you guys.

For instance, I’m 4V and I enter college next semester, but in high school I can’t say I was that successful. I’m only going to a T40-T50 university in the US. I made friends easily and was top 5% of my graduating class, but I wasn’t much of a leader and had a hard time getting authority figures to like me, so I’m not sure how well I’ll hold up at a serious job in the future.

I've been reading the Syntax of Love, and in it ELFV is described as having a "tendency towards masochism," yet sx7 is widely considered an archetype of ELFV.

What I'm struggling to reconcile is that Enneagram 7 is generally characterized by an avoidance of pain and deprivation. How is ELFV's masochism understood in relation to sx7?