Posted by Flower Pagan (68.35.113.192) on January 29, 2003 at 15:48:58:
In Reply to: you asked about my leadership style... posted by coo (139.134.58.153) on January 28, 2003 at 18:42:38:
> It's just a test.
FP: I know, but I can't help but wonder about the logic of how a test comes up with their answer. I am the type who would watch children's science shows because I am curious to know how it works and why does it work. LOL
FP: I understand I was so tired when I took that test that I misspelled my screen name for the first time. Froggy thought it was funny.
> By understanding our own complexities is a good place to begin I feel.
FP: To some I am very complex and to some, I am quite simple. To some people they see the balance of simplicity and complexity in me. I consider their perceptions to be valid because I can see that too.
FP: I don't understand what this has to do with the mistyped results of this test, which is very different from the results from Riso test and the test at 9energies.com (see link below). I wanted to understand the logic of this particular test, especially when I never answer with type Two answers because emotions is not my primary way of responding or dealing with things.
> The key to the enneagram and all it's wisdom is in the self reflection and I find that answering the questions in itself pretty revelatory!
That is how I felt about about the test on Enneagram Central, 9energies and RHETI.
> > I agree, I realized how I am when it came to team, cooperative and independent. I realized that my style of team work where I feel most comfortable is when the teacher leave us alone and allow us to divide the project to where each person can do their independent part and allow us to bring it together. How am I going to make it in the work world if I prefer to be independent and void of dealing with messy chaos that comes with humans trying to do a project together and think their ideas is best.
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> Find your own path. We must all figure out who we are and where we choose to fit in to the world and NO ONE can make that descision for us.
> You also scored high in Five...
> > Yes, that was nice. I know I am too outgoing and funny to be a Five though.
> > > TRUE!
> > > I liked that when asked about leadership (unlike other tests) I was given the option to define my leadership style. Not just " Are you a Leader or a Follower" type question-no destinction! We can all lead at certain times in our lives-or day for that matter.
FP: I prefer not to be the leader and to deal with the chaos of trying to get people to cooperate with each other when it is so much easier to work alone or do my own thing. I prefer to let others lead and just go alone with their plans if I like it enough or just go my seperate way. At my stress point, I would go alone to keep the peace and can't wait to get home in my peaceful world again. :op
> > What is the answer to your leadership style and what type are you?
> Bossy! I tend to try and dominate especially when it is a creative situation. I find it hard to have conflict and comprimise when it comes to my ideas and visions so I will just do it my way...so I guess trail blaze.
FP: My leadership style is a mixture depending on the person and the situation. I mostly help people find the answers that people already know from within by asking the right questions. Sometimes, I will show them the logic of the situation and the consequences of their decision. What they do is their decision since they are the ones who have to live with the outcome. I can get bossy when I want to get rid of the chaos once and for all that seems like it is never going away, unless I do, or sometimes, I do what comes most natural to me, WITHDRAW away from the CHAOS!!! :op
> I've been personally studying and applying the eeneagram for six years now and I THINK and FEEL that I am a Self Preservational four with both wings...but sometimes I will explore the eight and the six and the two just to get another feel for it all. I find it helpful to walk around for a few weeks or months questioning myself as to whether i have found my style or whether I have been so deeply entranced that I have been deluding myself. But I'm pretty certain now after discovering the sub-types.
FP: Questioning myself is not new for me, especially at my stress point! At my stress point, I can be a little too withdrawn into isolation with less desires to come out, but when I do come out, I am still friendly but not as silly, outgoing and giggly as I usually am. I feel like I am a 2 and a 7 mixture because I am outgoing and friendly, until I reach my stress point and find myself less sociable and more into solitary activities more often and would only want to be around people that I am close to. I sleep more and enjoy more activites that I can do alone like reading, journaling, posting, make jewelry with beads, paint, write, browse the internet, organize things, watch TV, research, etc...