Knowing your Enneagram type can help you understand the motivational drive behind your actions and your core emotional needs. Knowing yourself at this level can help you make better choices and feel more satisfied in your career, relationships, and life in general.
Some people can accurately type themselves after simply reading the type descriptions. Most people, however, need some help.
One important thing to remember is that your core type characteristics are natural to you. It does not take any effort to be your type. We usually struggle only when we try to adopt the best characteristics of other types.
According to the Enneagram, there are nine personality types. They are all interconnected and influence each other, but one type should describe you more fully and accurately than the others.
According to Enneagram theory, each person has a core personality type that developed in childhood due to various events, especially their relationship with their parents and other important people in their lives.
Members of each personality type can be healthy or unhealthy and may display the best or worst traits of their type.
The Enneagram theory is different from the four temperaments model, but the two do not contradict each other. While the four temperaments model deals with hereditary factors or inborn traits, the Enneagram model represents the way people adapt to the world because of their unique circumstances.
Depending on circumstances, your psychological potential may deteriorate or develop from the original starting point. Knowing your type can help you turn things around, develop your natural positive characteristics, and become more aware of your blind spots.
So what is your Enneagram type? If the short descriptions below do not help, take all nine tests, 100 questions each, and compare your results. The one with the highest score is likely your type.
Yes, that is a lot of questions, but many of them are interesting and even thought-provoking. And you do not have to answer them all on the same day. Once you find your Enneagram personality type, you can find your profile below.
The One
Healthy: idealistic, responsible, orderly, appropriate, perfectionistic.
Unhealthy: inflexible, overly critical, controlling.
The Two
Healthy: loving, warm, attentive, compassionate.
Unhealthy: needy, manipulative, possessive.
The Three
Healthy: adaptable, successful, inspiring, sociable.
Unhealthy: fake, self-absorbed, superficial, attention-seeking.
The Four
Healthy: empathic, unique, humane, elegant, sophisticated.
Unhealthy: needy, envious, overly sensitive, depressed.
The Five
Healthy: calm, knowledgeable, objective, attentive.
Unhealthy: cold, detached, arrogant.
The Six
Healthy: protective, loyal, reliable, strategic.
Unhealthy: fearful, anxious, uncertain.
The Seven
Healthy: optimistic, energetic, adventurous, spontaneous.
Unhealthy: bored, restless, unreliable, disloyal, self-indulgent.
The Eight
Healthy: confident, decisive, generous, supportive.
Unhealthy: rude, aggressive, mean, arrogant.
The Nine
Healthy: peaceful, calm, patient, selfless, humble.
Unhealthy: slow, procrastinating, indifferent, complacent.
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