Enneagram Personality Typing

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Enneagram personality typing is similar to other personality systems which are based on a series of questions, and places an individual into a set category. In the enneagram system there are nine types on can be placed into, and are primarily labeled by the numbers one through nine. An additions aspect about the system is its wings: while people are dominate in one type their non-dominate type is their wing. Primarily the enneagram system displays why, and how an individual may respond under various conditions. Myself being an enneagram type One has influenced my academic goals, the friendships I choose, and the cause of conflict with others.
My personality type of the reformer presents its self in my academics. To reform is to improve upon what is already there, some may consider a person who does this to be a perfectionist. When working on something, either a project or regular assignment sometimes how one aspect is supposed to be gets …show more content…

That is partially due to finding it easier not talking to new people on the off chance that I will say the wrong thing. Also at times think of several possibilities of how I should talk to them, and have none of them come to pass. Often it is the other person who inevitability starts the conversation. Other times my quiet comes off as either uninterested or rigged to others, while in actuality in most cases I feel the opposite of how I appear. Finding a way to express that to others follows the same issues as the one previously stated, either over analyzing or not wanting to say the wrong thing. Therefore the few people that do become my friends I know I can rely on because they are willing to work with my social issues. Although when I become comfortable with a group of people these problems tend to disappear. While my behavior makes it difficult to make large numbers of friends I feel as though the quality of the few I have largely makes up for that

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