Maximise pleasure, minimise pain. That’s as good as life gets for you. Emotions are messy, so why deal with them? Instead, you indulge in novel experiences, push back against rules and avoid the mundane. You are spontaneous, exuberant and optimistic. You’re the life of the party, and people love to be around you. But when the going gets tough, you get going too.

Type 7s know how to enjoy themselves. They seek stimulation and avoid limitation. They’re the ones who travel to faraway places, try all types of good food, love meeting new people and just soak up every possible new experience that they can.

To 7s, everything is always rosy. But being overly optimistic can come at the expense of others. When there’s a storm brewing in their relationships or at work, they are somehow able to run away from it. Of course, this leaves others to have to clean up the mess, which can often cause those around them to feel abandoned and unsupported.

The problem is, 7s are sometimes too self-focused to realise that others’ needs aren’t being met. They may explain away these issues so as not to feel bad about it. Thankfully for them, they’re smooth talkers, so it’s easy for them to wriggle out of uncomfortable social situations. Because of this, they’ve got lots of friends, despite being somewhat unreliable at times.

With regard to challenges of their own, 7s can sometimes resort to escapism, leading them to bounce from one interest to the next, so as not to have to deal with a fallout or blowback if ever something doesn’t pan out the way they wanted it to.