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The Enneagram Assessment Page

This is going to be fun and could actually change your life, so first let me welcome you, and applaud your sense of adventure and curiosity.

Our assessment system strives to avoid some of the pit-falls and extraneous information that can sidetrack, distract, or misdirect you from an accurate choice (and it's fast!).

For example, using labels or names for the Types (at the beginning) sets you up for pre-conceived judgments or unconscious triggers that can create misdirected assessments.

Optimized Results uses a combination of a “Flash Cards” approach to reduce the amount of reading you need to do, and a "Three Criteria Rule" for an accurate assessment.

That said, keeping a few general principles in mind while doing your assessment, will help guide you down a slightly narrower and more focused path; easier and with more accurate results.

General Principles

Sure you can relate to all of them.

We can reflect all Nine Types, but five of them are what I would call "indigenous" and the other four reflect learned survival strategies. One Type is your primary core lens, even if we can see ourselves thru several if not all of them.

If you threw a rubber ball into a box, it would likely bounce off of every wall, but it would hit one wall first. That would be your Primary Type. From there, we are an amalgam of those five indigenous types: your Primary (how you usually take in the world around you), your two adjacent Wings, (which have differing levels of influence) your lens in Stress (you know how you see the world differently when you are totally stressed out?) and your lens in Security (once again the world looks very different when you feel confident and secure). Obviously, your own blend is what makes you unique, and yet allows for deeply shared experience.

Age and Experience – Think of yourself as you were at age 25 or younger.

As we progress through our lives, we take on and learn coping strategies from those around us. We are sort of like a giant snowball rolling downhill picking up more and more snow, and yet that core in the very center (which is still you) hasn’t changed. It can be hard to sort out what your own original strategies are unless you place yourself at the age before this process got under way. If you are 25 or younger this is a breeze, but for many of us it’s kind of a stretch. This is the age that most people really take their original coping strategies “on the road,” and the “cross-contamination” that can confuse the assessment usually begins.

Motivation not Behavior – Don’t focus on what you do. Focus on why you do it.

The real magic of the Enneagram is how it addresses who you are on a much deeper level than defining yourself by what you do. You and I could do the exact same thing for completely different reasons, thus the behavior itself doesn’t tell us nearly as much.

One more time: what you do doesn't matter. What matters is why would you do that? What motivates you? What feelings or thoughts you might stuff down in order to do "whatever" is what really counts.

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