A different personality quiz
So a blog that I read had the following personality quiz linked, and as a sucker for these things I took it...
The site is http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ennegram.asp
and you can take the Free version - it's the "Free RHETI Sampler" found in the blue toolbar on the left. Anyways, my results are
So I tied for first place with numbers 5 and 6...I'm not sure what that says about me, that I tied. I suppose I am a Gemini...maybe the twin personality thing is true. Anyways, what each number "means" (these are the brief descriptions, there is a lot more detail on the website)
5
THE INVESTIGATOR
The Intense, Cerebral Type:
Perceptive, Innovative, Secretive, and Isolated
Type Five in Brief
Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.
* Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable
* Basic Desire: To be capable and competent
* Enneagram Five with a Four-Wing: "The Iconoclast"
* Enneagram Five with a Six-Wing: "The Problem Solver"
Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment.
The Meaning of the Arrows (in brief)
6
THE LOYALIST
The Committed, Security-Oriented Type:
Engaging, Responsible, Anxious, and Suspicious
Type Six in Brief
The committed, security-oriented type. Sixes are reliable, hard-working, 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. At their Best: internally stable and self-reliant, courageously championing themselves and others.
* Basic Fear: Of being without support and guidance
* Basic Desire: To have security and support
* Enneagram Six with a Five-Wing: "The Defender"
* Enneagram Six with a Seven-Wing: "The Buddy"
Key Motivations: Want to have security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the attitudes of others toward them, to fight against anxiety and insecurity.
Actually after reading more about them, I think both are pretty accurate, must mean I really am a Gemini. *shrug*
The site is http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ennegram.asp
and you can take the Free version - it's the "Free RHETI Sampler" found in the blue toolbar on the left. Anyways, my results are
So I tied for first place with numbers 5 and 6...I'm not sure what that says about me, that I tied. I suppose I am a Gemini...maybe the twin personality thing is true. Anyways, what each number "means" (these are the brief descriptions, there is a lot more detail on the website)
5
THE INVESTIGATOR
The Intense, Cerebral Type:
Perceptive, Innovative, Secretive, and Isolated
Type Five in Brief
Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.
* Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable
* Basic Desire: To be capable and competent
* Enneagram Five with a Four-Wing: "The Iconoclast"
* Enneagram Five with a Six-Wing: "The Problem Solver"
Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment.
The Meaning of the Arrows (in brief)
6
THE LOYALIST
The Committed, Security-Oriented Type:
Engaging, Responsible, Anxious, and Suspicious
Type Six in Brief
The committed, security-oriented type. Sixes are reliable, hard-working, 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. At their Best: internally stable and self-reliant, courageously championing themselves and others.
* Basic Fear: Of being without support and guidance
* Basic Desire: To have security and support
* Enneagram Six with a Five-Wing: "The Defender"
* Enneagram Six with a Seven-Wing: "The Buddy"
Key Motivations: Want to have security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the attitudes of others toward them, to fight against anxiety and insecurity.
Actually after reading more about them, I think both are pretty accurate, must mean I really am a Gemini. *shrug*