PERSONALITY TYPES

Learn Your Enneagram Personality Type

to Better Understand Yourself

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Type 9: The Peacemaker

Easy going, accepting, trusting, and stable. Mostly optimistic, supportive, and creative. They go along with others to keep the peace. They want a smooth and conflict-free life. They tend to be complacent and they oversimplify problems to keep themselves free from disturbance. Inertia and stubbornness follow.

At their best they are indomitable and all-embracing, bringing people together and healing conflicts.

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Type 1: The Perfectionist

Ones are conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. They are teachers, crusaders, and advocates for change; always striving to improve things, but afraid of making mistakes. Well organised, orderly, and fastidious, they try to maintain high standards, but can slip into being critical perfectionists. They typically have problems with resentment and impatience.

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Type 2: The Caretaker

Empathetic, sincere, and warm-hearted, twos are friendly, generous, and self-sacrificing sentimentalists. These are the people-pleasers who mean well but who, due to being driven by a need for closeness, can slip into flattery and doing things for others for the sole purpose of feeling needed. Twos have problems with possessiveness and acknowledging their own needs.

At their best they are selfless, altruistic and unconditional.

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Type 3: The Achiever

Ambitious, competent, self-assured and highly attractive. The three type is charming, charismatic, status-conscious and always driven by productivity for advancement. They are diplomatic and poised workaholics. They are highly competitive individuals, often overly concerned with what others think and with how they look. They are also great self role-models who inspire others to strive for their best.

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Type 4: The Romantic

Fours are self-aware, emotionally honest, sensitive artists. They are creative, reserved, moody and self-conscious. They withhold themselves from others because they feel vulnerable, deflective, and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They can be disdainful, self-indulgent, self-pitying melancholics. They can also be inspiring, highly creative types who can renew themselves and transform their experiences.

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Type 5: The Investigator

Fives are alert, insightful, curious and detached types. They are born to concentrate on developing complex ideas and inventions. Fives are the independent, innovative types who are preoccupied with developing their own skills and ideas with intense focus. These are the eccentric, highly strung, detached and socially sensitive types. They are known to be the isolated nihilistic types who can also be the visionary pioneers who are able to see the world in an entirely new way.

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Type 6: The Loyalist

Six-ophrenics are security-oriented, loyal, hard-working, engaging, responsible, and trustworthy. Excellent "troubleshooters," they foresee problems and foster cooperation, but can also become defensive, evasive, and anxious—running on stress while complaining about it. They can be cautious and indecisive, but also reactive, defiant and rebellious. They typically have problems with self-doubt and suspicion.

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Type 7: The Enthusiast

Masters of finesse, tweaking any mood for lightness and ease, Sevens keep their options open for the unlimited possibilities that may come their way. They flitter from place to place according to the lightness of their being.

Serene bliss is their essence, and they seek experiences that reflect this in their environment.

They project enthusiasm to feel safe. They harness fear to avoid missing out. They are rarely fully present as their minds are busy planning the next idyllic fantasy. Anything to avoid feeling pain. They fear feeling trapped and loath commitment. Depth is exciting, as long as it doesn't involve feeling personal pain.

 
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Type 8: The Boss

Strong, confident, assertive and resourceful types, Eights are protective, straight-talking, and decisive. They can be egocentric and domineering. Eights feel compelled to control their environment and others around them by being confrontational and intimidating. They can easily lose their tempers, avoiding feelings of vulnerability. At their best they are self-mastering, using their strengths to improve others' lives, becoming heroic, magnanimous, and inspiring.

How It Works

The philosophy behind the Enneagram contains components from mystical Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and ancient Greek philosophy (particularly Socrates, Plato, and the Neo-Platonists).

The Enneagram of Personality Types is a modern synthesis of a number of ancient wisdom traditions such as from such as Evagrius Ponticus, a Christian mystic who lived in 4th-century Alexandria in Egypt. It can also be traced back to Pythagorus.

The person who originally put the system together was Oscar Ichazo in the late 1960's.

The symbol was reintroduced to the modern world by George Gurdjieff, the founder of a highly influential inner work school.

It is based on a classification of 9 different personality types each with their own motivations, fears, and internal dynamics.

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