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They're connected by an arrow: strategy 5 moves toward strategy 7 under stress. That's why someone with strategy 5 easily recognizes their own worse days in strategy 7.

They're connected by an arrow: strategy 7 moves toward strategy 5 in growth. Strategy 5 therefore often embodies what someone with strategy 7 needs to develop.

Both strategies belong to the same center (head center), so they deal with a similar theme, each in its own way.

The Seven is hungry for experiences: traveling, taking courses, working on several projects at once. For the Five, who conserves energy, this is an excellent "sorting system." The Seven tries things out, the Five picks what interests them. It's often the Seven who opens the Five up to something, and the Five then sticks with it much longer.

The couple often lives by "you do your thing, I'll do mine." The Five likes long stretches alone, the Seven is out and about. It works because both are independent. The Five admires the Seven's social ease, and the Five's steady presence calms the Seven.

• Interesting conversations and ideas.
• The Five brings depth, the Seven energy and contact with the world.
• The Seven draws the Five out, the Five teaches the Seven focus.

• The Seven charges ahead enthusiastically, the Five retreats into isolation.
• The Seven gets bored, the Five sees superficiality.
• Both replace feeling with thinking.

Both are Head Center strategies, where an idea can take the place of action. The Seven's mind works like a tree of ideas; the Five focuses on one idea and explores it for years. The collaboration is strong in strategy and research, but without follow-through, good ideas stay just ideas.