Posted by Dafyd on October 30, 1999 at 06:59:35:
In Reply to: what's my type posted by Esther on October 29, 1999 at 09:24:18:
> I've been reading about the enneagram for 5 years now, and i've taken several
> tests, but I'm still not sure what my type is.
> I scored highest on type 4 and 5 (both 22 points) and on type 6 and 9 (both 21
> points).
Tests often aren't very helpful.
I would put Nine as the most likely, followed by Five or Six, then Four, but that's only a guess.
Don't believe what anybody else tells you, unless you're sure that it feels right to you.
Fours, Fives, Sixes and Nines can all look a lot like each other. As a random question, which
might help, would you say you feel nervous before you think you may be criticised? Is criticism
worse in your imagination than when it actually happens? I'm a Five with a fair bit of Six, and
I find that I can get extremely worried before I meet someone, while when I'm actually talking to
them it's fine.
> Is there a way to know for sure what my type is?
Not really.
> Can someone be a mixture of two or more types?
There's a bit of difficulty about this. It depends how seriously you want to take the enneagram.
If you see it as a useful metaphor, then yes you could be. If you treat it as a genuine report on
what is going on deep down in people, then you can share adjacent types but I wouldn't think that
you could be two types which are far apart. (Although the types that are far apart are often more
similar on the surface that the adjacent types.)
Dafyd