Tips on Type: Type Eight and Humor
Posted by Rachel on August-8-2009

I’m an avid Scrubs watcher, in part because I love the excessively expressive characters. My favorite is Dr. Cox, the unabashed anger ball of a Type Eight.

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Dr. Cox cracks me up, as do all expressive Eights, in part because they say and do the stuff that I choose not to. As an Eight strongly connected to my inner Two, I limit and filter out much of what my Eight WANTS to say because, well, I like having friends.

Dr. Cox calls out stupidity, ignorance, uncertainty, and pretty much anything else that gets in his way. While my Eight part loves to watch that, I would have a hard time with the repercussions of behaving that way in my real life.

I allow a few moments, from time to time, of just blatantly stating the obvious, making a hard-edged joke, or being otherwise overtly reactive to people, and I believe that because these moments are more rare and (most of the time) filtered through my spirit-connection and Self, they’re much more effective in provoking change.

There is a time when cutting through the crap, calling out the BS, and even exaggerating extremes is called for. Unfortunately for Eight, that time is not ALL the time. So when we’re healthy, we learn to moderate inside ourselves a lot.

But that doesn’t stop me from finding it cathartically hysterical when I see those moments happen, repeatedly, on the screen.

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Lynn on August 12th, 2009 at 2:27 pm #

Hey Rachel, I saw this an thought of you, in case your interested. :-)

http://www.innersource.net/classes_training/flyers_em/2009-09-09_energies-of-life_flyer.htm

Rachel on August 12th, 2009 at 11:16 pm #

Thanks, Lynn! Dina and I both will think about going to this. I’ve heard of Donna Eden ever since I got into energy healing!

Leslie on August 27th, 2009 at 6:01 am #

Love your blog…as I said on Twitter, my family and I have typed Dr. Cox as a counterphobic 6..1-1 subypes tend to be more counterphobic and Naranjo often calls them the “anti-6″ as they look so much like an 8… (like my son…oh, okay, Dr. Cox IS my son)…kinetic energy of 6, fast paced talking, sarcastic wit, authority issues…wife, Jordan is an 8. Can you feel her instinctual energy, take no prisoners style of relating and her speaking style is 8-like as she speaks in “declaratives.” And, her lust is great! I see this 6-8 combination often in relationships. So…for whatever it’s worth, that’s my family’s take on some Scrubs characters. Thanks for playing!

Rachel on September 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm #

Hey Leslie, thanks for joining in!
I agree that CounterPhobic Sixes do resemble Eights in some ways, but disagree that Dr. Cox is such. He’s an Eight through and through.

Reasons:
You very rarely (almost never) see him afraid.
He values integrity above relationships (whereas a Six would be the other way around).
He spouts angry rants ALL the time.
He’s egocentric to the point where he mentions in one episode that he has a fantasy where he’s sitting to the side in a throne, surveying all.
He makes JD call him “The Big Cheese.”
He laughs at the misfortune of others (Dr. Kelso, JD, Elliot, and Turk) and goes so far as to play pranks on them to incite misfortune…mainly because he thinks it’s funny.
He fights the establishment and everyone else to protect those who truly suffer.
He sees almost everything in black and white.
He never suffers from indecision.
He’s not particularly reckless (as a CounterPhobic Six would be, rushing into whatever scares them).

Yes, I also agree that Jordan, his wife, is ALSO an Eight. They’re just different subtypes. My guess is that she’s a Sexual subtype and Dr. Cox is a Self-Pres.

As Dr. Cox might say to JD, “your move there, Sally.”

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