Enneagram Test

1. I am a perfectionist.
2. My relationships with others are what my life is about.
3. I put work first.
4. I daydream about being in love.
5. I have a hard time showing emotions.
6. Fear of being taken advantage of keeps me from being more trusting.
7. I must always be having new experiences.
8. I naturally emerge as a leader.
9. When other people are arguing, I leave the room.
10. I strive for efficiency.
11. I have difficulty saying no.
12. I like to stand out.
13. I really enjoy feeling bitter sweet.
14. I spend hours alone with my hobbies.
15. I get input from others before I make a decision.
16. I can keep a conversation going with anyone about anything.
17. I like a conversation where no one agrees.
18. I keep my thoughts to myself, to prevent trouble.
19. I often have to redo other peoples work.
20. I get lots of satisfaction from helping others achieve their goals.
21. It is good to wake up to a full day of planned activities.
22. I cry.
23. I spend most of my time trying to understand things.
24. I conform.
25. I am uninhibited.
26. I want people to tell me the truth, not spare my feelings.
27. I am very accepting and flexible.
28. I keep my belongings in order.
29. I put family first.
30. Money is important to my happiness.
31. I side with the rebels over the establishment.
32. I like mental challenges.
33. I am loyal.
34. I always try to break the tension with a good joke.
35. I prefer it when leaders are decisive.
36. I avoid confrontation.
NINE ROLES: A BRIEF SUMMARY
Here are the 9 Enneatype roles, with a quick overview of each.

Type 1 (The Perfectionist)

Serious and practical, the Perfectionist has a rigid set of morals which translates into their lifestyle
and decisions. They’re on a quiet mission to improve the world by using their knowledge and
intrinsic drive.

Focus Areas: Organizing, Adhering, Systemizing

Basic Goal: To be a good and just citizen of society; to contribute back with high standards.
Basic Fear: To be morally incorrect or corrupt; to break principles and promises.

Type 2 (The Helper)

With a natural affinity for emotional intelligence, the Helper builds and strengthens connections. As
natural givers, they’re generous with their time and energy with a glowing hope to bring out the best
in others.

Focus Areas: Giving, Connecting, Sharing

Basic Goal: To care and give freely to others; to have love be reciprocated.
Basic Fear: To be unwanted or unneeded and have no one to care for.
Type 3 (The Achiever)

Accomplished and driven, the Achiever takes on new challenges to add to their ever-expanding wall
of personal achievements. They’re adaptable, charismatic and willing to go the extra mile to
transform their dreams into reality.

Focus Areas: Status, Appearing, Performing

Basic Goal: To be increasingly successful, accomplished and valuable.
Basic Fear: To lose a reputation and become insignificant in the eyes of others.
Type 4 (The Individualist)

Creating unique works of personal expression, the Individualist focuses on presenting their
unfiltered, authentic self to the world, ultimately trying to unleash their true identity within. Their
overarching goal is to aim for a deep sense of purpose through all aspects of their lives.

Focus Areas: Self-identifying, Creating, Conceptualizing

Basic Goal: To curate a distinct image and stand out as a truly unique individual.
Basic Fear: To be unoriginal and unappreciated, lacking a definitive self-identity.
Type 5 (The Investigator)

As life’s philosophers, the Investigator seeks out patterns and connections between the grand
mysteries of the essence of life itself. They’re sponges for knowledge and trek intellectually through
new, untouched roads with an open mind.

Focus Areas: Reclusing, Analyzing, Processing

Basic Goal: To become increasingly knowledgeable, wise and informed about the complexities of life.
Basic Fear: To be incompetent and useless; to be helpless to take on new challenges.
Type 6 (The Loyalist)
Skeptical and detail-oriented, the Loyalist seeks security and devotion through all walks of their life.
They’re sticklers for maintaining trust and make excellent troubleshooters who can sweat the
details.

Focus Areas: Preparing, Committing, Saving

Basic Goal: To feel safe, accepted, and supported.
Basic Fear: To be in a state of panic; to feel unstable and the lack of guidance.
Type 7 (The Enthusiast)

Wide-eyed and full of energy, every step of life’s journey is an adventure to the Enthusiast.
Optimistic and boundlessly curious, they enjoy seeking out new experiences and living life to the
fullest through each moment.

Focus Areas: Exploring, Experiencing, Energizing

Basic Goal: To live an exciting and fulfilling life filled with joy and opportunity.
Basic Fear: To become trapped in menial drudgery and succumb to boredom.
Type 8 (The Challenger)

Goals, strategies, and continuous improvement are the Challenger’s core three pillars. Headstrong
and brave, they make strides in whatever they anchor their mind to. Their desire for autonomy and
power pushes them to become thought leaders in their areas of expertise.

Focus Areas: Leading, Trailblazing, Strategizing

Basic Goal: To control life as a strong, driven, and intrinsically motivated individual.
Basic Fear: To be controlled and become weak from a lack of freedom and power.
Type 9 (The Peacemaker)

Accepting and tolerant of others, the Peacemaker goes to great lengths to ensure harmony among a
group. They’re masters of language and gently encourage others to express their views openly, with
patience and empathy.

Focus Areas: Harmonizing, Calming, Encouraging

Basic Goal: To feel wholeness and peace with the external and internal environment.
Basic Fear: To be struck by a perpetual sense of conflict and disconnect with others.
One of the major characteristics of the Enneagram is the breakdown of healthy, normal, and
unhealthy levels. Under stress, a specific type may resemble another—so it’s important to look into
integration (growth) ↔ disintegration (stress) arrows. More on that below.
The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram (from the Greek words ἐννέα [ennéa,
meaning "nine"] and γράμμα [grámma, meaning something "written" or "drawn"[1]]), is a
description of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine
interconnected personality types.
Although the origins and history of many of the ideas associated with the Enneagram of
Personality are a matter of dispute, contemporary approaches are principally derived from the
teachings of the Bolivian psycho-spiritual teacher Oscar Ichazo from the 1950s and the Chilean
psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo from the 1970s. Naranjo's theories were also influenced by some
earlier teachings about personality by George Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way tradition.
As a typology, the Enneagram defines nine personality types (sometimes called "enneatypes"),
which are represented by the points of a geometric figure called an enneagram,[2] which indicate
connections between the types. There are some different schools of thought among Enneagram
teachers and their understandings are not always in agreement.[2]
The Enneagram of Personality has been widely promoted in both business management and
spirituality contexts through seminars, conferences, books, magazines, and DVDs.[3][4] In business
contexts it is promoted as a means to gain insights into workplace interpersonal dynamics;
in spirituality it is more commonly presented as a path to higher states of enlightenment. Both
contexts say it can aid in self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-development.[3]
There has been limited formal psychometric analysis of the Enneagram and the peer-reviewed
research that has been done has not been widely accepted within the relevant academic
communities.[5] Though the Enneagram integrates concepts generally accepted in a theory of
personality,[6] it has been dismissed by personality assessment experts as pseudoscience.[7]

History[edit]
The origins and historical development of the Enneagram of Personality are matters of dispute.
Wiltse and Palmer[8] have suggested that similar ideas to the Enneagram of Personality are found
in the work of Evagrius Ponticus, a Christian mystic who lived in 4th-century Alexandria in Egypt.
Evagrius identified eight logismoi ("deadly thoughts") plus an overarching thought he called "love
of self". Evagrius wrote, "The first thought of all is that of love of self (philautia); after this, [come]
the eight."[9] In addition to identifying eight deadly thoughts, Evagrius also identified eight
"remedies" to these thoughts.[8]
G. I. Gurdjieff (died 1949) is credited with making the word enneagram and the enneagram
figure commonly known[10] (see Fourth Way enneagram). He did not, however, develop the nine
personality types associated with the Enneagram of Personality. Instead, Gurdjieff used the
enneagram figure for various other purposes, including sacred dances that are known as
the Gurdjieff movements.
Oscar Ichazo (1931-2020) is generally recognized as the principal source[10] of the contemporary
Enneagram of Personality which is largely derived from some of Ichazo's teachings, such as
those on ego-fixations, holy ideas, passions, and virtues. The Bolivian-born Ichazo began
teaching programs of self-development in the 1950s. His teaching, which he calls
"Protoanalysis", uses the enneagram figure among many other symbols and ideas. Ichazo
founded the Arica Institute which was originally based in Chile before moving to the United
States[2] and coined the term "Enneagram of Personality".[3]
Claudio Naranjo (1932-2019) was a Chilean-born psychiatrist who first learned about the
Enneagram of Personality from Ichazo at a course in Arica, Chile. He then began developing and
teaching his own understanding of the Enneagram in the United States, principally at the Esalen
Institute and to his students in Berkeley, California, including two Jesuit priests who adapted the
Enneagram for use in Christian spirituality. Ichazo disowned Naranjo and the other Enneagram
teachers due to what he considered misinterpretations and misuses of the Enneagram.[2]
Largely due to Naranjo's teachings and those he first taught the Enneagram to, Enneagram
teachings became increasingly popularized in the United States and elsewhere from the 1970s.
Numerous other authors also began publishing widely read books on the Enneagram of
Personality in the 1980s and 1990s, including Don Richard Riso (1987), Helen
Palmer [Wikidata] (1988), Eli Jaxon-Bear (1989), Elizabeth Wagele (1994), and Richard
Rohr (1995). In 1994, the First International Enneagram Conference, attended by over 1,000
participants, was held at Stanford University and co-sponsored by the university's psychiatry
department[11] where psychiatrist, Enneagram author and conference co-director David
Daniels [Wikidata] was teaching.
Analysis of Google search results over 16 years shows an increase in searches for the word
"enneagram" from 2017.[12] Additionally, social media accounts and podcasts about the
Enneagram have increased, indicating a growing popularity among millennials.[12] It has been
suggested that the rise in popularity of the Enneagram is similar to renewed interest in astrology.
[12]

Figure[edit]

Enneagram figure

The enneagram figure is usually composed of three parts; a circle, an inner triangle (connecting
3-6-9), and an irregular hexagonal "periodic figure" (connecting 1-4-2-8-5-7). According to
esoteric spiritual traditions,[13] the circle symbolizes unity, the inner triangle symbolizes the "law of
three" and the heptagram represents the "law of seven" (because 1-4-2-8-5-7-1 is the repeating
decimal created by dividing one by seven in base 10 arithmetic).[14] These three elements
constitute the usual enneagram figure.[15]