The New Me: Personality according to Jung and Enneagram

To inaugurate a new blog, I am declaring a new personality. Thanks to Seth, I have taken a personality test that gives Jung results (somehow similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator) and Enneagram results.

First, the Jung results:

Introverted (I) 57.14%	Extroverted (E) 42.86%
Sensing (S) 58.33%	Intuitive (N) 41.67%
Thinking (T) 62.07%	Feeling (F) 37.93%
Perceiving (P) 55.56%	Judging (J) 44.44%

ISTP - "Engineer." Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

Here is more information from the ISTP article on Wikipedia:

ISTPs excel at analyzing situations to reach the heart of a problem so that they can swiftly implement a functional repair, making them ideally suited to the field of engineering. Naturally quiet people, they are interested in understanding how systems operate, focusing on efficient operation and structure. They are open to new information and approaches. But contrary to their seemingly detached natures, ISTPs are often capable of humorously insightful observations about the world around them, and can be closet daredevils who gravitate toward fast-moving or risky hobbies (such as bungee jumping, hang gliding, racing, motorcycling, and parachuting), recreational sports (such as downhill skiing, paintball, ice hockey, and scuba diving), and careers (such as aviation and firefighting).

The text is pretty accurate, I'd say. I think when I took the Myers-Briggs test back in high school, my Thinking and Feeling were much closer. I suppose continuous exposure to school and engineering work has turned me into a emotionless, thinking machine.

Next, the Enneagram results:

Type 1	Perfectionism	||||||||||||	46%
Type 2	Helpfulness	||||||||||||	46%
Type 3	Image Awareness	||||||||||	40%
Type 4	Sensitivity	||||||||||	36%
Type 5	Detachment	||||||||||||||	56%
Type 6	Anxiety	||||||||||||||	60%
Type 7	Adventurousness	||||||||||||	50%
Type 8	Aggressiveness	||||||	30%
Type 9	Calmness	||||||||||||||||	66%

Type	Score	Type behavior motivation
9	20	I must be peaceful and easy to get along with to be happy.
6	18	I must be secure and safe to be happy.
5	17	I must be knowledgable and independent to be happy.
7	15	I must be high and entertained to be happy.

The summary of the types follows:

1. Type One is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.
2. Type Two is demonstrative, generous, people-pleasing, and possessive.
3. Type Three is adaptive, excelling, driven, and image-conscious.
4. Type Four is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental.
5. Type Five is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated.
6. Type Six is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious.
7. Type Seven is spontaneous, versatile, distractible, and scattered.
8. Type Eight is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational.
9. Type Nine is receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent.

Another way to name the basic personality types is the Riso-Hudson method:

For more on the meaning of the diagram, read how the Enneagram system works.

Here's more detail on Nines from the Enneagram of Personality article on Wikipedia:

The Nine's attention goes to connecting with others, maintaining harmony, peace, and comfort, and avoiding conflict. They typically enjoy a feeling of ease, harmony, and peace.

Coping strategy: Some Nines describe their childhood as one in which they felt overlooked or ignored and felt they had to go along with the wishes of others. Other Nines describe having had a pleasant childhood with almost no family conflict. In response to these environments, they learned to identify with others' positions, forget their own point of view, and go along to get along. As a result, while Nines can see many different points of view, they can have a hard time locating their own opinions, desires, or agendas.

Major traits: Nines merge with others energetically, taking on the feel and positions of others, thus losing touch with their own internal experience and priorities. As one of the three anger types, Nines can be very out of contact with their own anger, which can leak out in the form of passive-aggression, stubbornness, and passive resistance. Typically they are more focused on others than on themselves.

Strengths: Nines can be skilled mediators and loyal, steadfast partners and friends. They can also be warm, understanding and caring.

Challenges: Nines can have difficulty feeling and expressing anger, dealing with conflict, knowing what they want, and differentiating their experience from others in their lives.

Ego fixation: indolence

Holy idea: love

Passion/Vice: laziness (sloth)

Virtue: patience

Interestingly enough, there is a lot of truth in describing me as a Nine.

Unlike many of the silly personality tests out there (e.g. Which breed of dog would you be?), I think this one is potentially useful. What are your results on this test?