Eights with a Seven Wing
These Eights take on the tendency of Sevens to see a positive outcome. They blend their usual realism with a sentimental idealism. Seven energy tames the lion in Eights and helps them learn to sublimate at least some of their more aggressive feelings.
As Eights they are still business oriented, but a Seven wing makes them energetic, quicker on the draw, and more entrepreneurial or visionary. A Seven wing also helps them be more sociable, often to the point of going overboard at parties.
According to The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide, examples of Eights with a Seven wing include Lucille Ball, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Richards, Grace Slick, and Donald Trump. Movies roles that depict Eights with a Seven wing include Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, Michael Douglas in Wall Street, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, and Christine Lahti in Leaving Normal.
Pathological Eights with Seven wings are highly susceptible to the diseases of excess — alcoholism, drug addiction, shopping addictions. When their anger becomes distorted, they are capable of vicious behavior.
