Info About The Enneagram Types
Enneagram Types: Personalities of Each of the Nine Types
Type One: The Perfectionist
Believes you must be good and right to be worthy. Consequently, Perfectionists are conscientious, responsible, improvement-oriented, and self-controlled, but also can be critical, resentful, and self-judging.
Type Two: The Giver
Believes you must give fully to others to be loved. Consequently, Givers are caring, helpful, supportive, and relationship-oriented, but also can be prideful, overly intrusive, and demanding.
Type Three: The Performer
Believes you must accomplish and succeed to be loved. Consequently, Performers are industrious, fast-paced, goal-focused, and efficiency-oriented, but also can be inattentive to feelings, impatient, and image-driven.
Type Four: The Romantic
Believes you must obtain the longed-for ideal relationship or situation to be loved. Consequently, Romantics are idealistic, deeply feeling, empathetic, authentic to self, but also dramatic, moody, and sometimes self-absorbed.
Type Five: The Observer
Believes you must protect yourself from a world that demands too much and gives too little to assure life. Consequently, Observers are self-sufficiency-seeking, non-demanding, analytical/thoughtful, and unobtrusive, but also can be withholding, detached, and overly private.
Type Six: The Loyal Skeptic
Believes you must gain protection and security in a hazardous world you just can’t trust. Consequently, Loyal Skeptics are themselves trustworthy, inquisitive, good friends, and questioning, but can also be overly doubtful, accusatory, and fearful.
Type Seven: The Epicure
Believes you must keep life up and open to assure a good life. Consequently, Epicures are optimistic, upbeat, seeking options, pleasure-seeking, and adventurous, but also can be pain avoidant, uncommitted, and self-serving.
Type Eight: The Protector
Believes you must be strong and powerful to assure protection and regards in a tough world. Consequently, Protectors are justice-seeking, direct, strong, and action-oriented, but also overly impactful, excessive, and sometimes intimidating.
Type Nine: The Mediator
Believes to be loved and valued, you must blend in and go along to get along. Consequently, Mediators are self-forgetting, harmony-seeking, comfortable, and steady, but also conflict-avoidant and sometimes stubborn.
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