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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Enneagram<\/h2>\n
The Enneagram is comprised as a set of nine distinct personality types. Each number on the Enneagram symbol denoting one type. Your basic personality type stands out among the nine; but, it is normal to find your personality including a little of each of the nine types. [Note: The quotes in this post all come directly from the Enneagram Institute<\/a>.]<\/p>\n After taking the quiz, you’ll be giving a number and a one-word descriptor that helps categorize the different personality types. Those descriptors, in numerical order, include: The Reformer, The Helper, The Achiever, The Individualist, The Investigator, The Loyalist, The Enthusiast, The Challenger, The Peacemaker.<\/p>\n Type One<\/strong> is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic. You may already be able to see why having a better understanding of your basic personality type may give you insight into your musical career not to mention your day-to-day life.<\/p>\n What is so helpful about the Enneagram is the nuance and subtlety that it is able to parse out in each personality type. The 144 question test goes beyond just putting you into a specific dominant personality. It helps answer questions about the emotional center, the dominant emotion of each center, and the two personality types adjacent to your basic personality type.<\/p>\n As part of your results, there is a section devoted to levels of development for your personality types. “That structure is the continuum of behaviors, attitudes, defenses, and motivations formed by the nine Levels of Development which make up the personality type itself.”<\/p>\n The Levels of Development provide a framework for seeing how all of the different traits that comprise each type fit into a large whole; they are a way of conceptualizing the underlying \u201cskeletal\u201d structure of each type. Without the Levels, the types can seem to be an arbitrary collection of unrelated traits, with contradictory behaviors and attitudes often part of the picture. But by understanding the Levels for each type, one can see how all of the traits are interrelated\u2014and how healthy traits can deteriorate into average traits and possibly into unhealthy ones. As pioneering consciousness philosopher Ken Wilber has noted, without the Levels, the Enneagram is reduced to a \u201chorizontal\u201d set of nine discrete categories. By including the Levels, however, a \u201cvertical\u201d dimension is added that not only reflects the complexity of human nature, but goes far in explaining many different, important elements within personality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n After that section, you’ll read a bit about your direction of integration (growth) or direction of disintegration (stress.) This part helps us discover the shift in our personality when we’re experiencing growth or stress.<\/p>\n Finally, you’ll look at your subtypes. The subtypes are split into three categories: self-preservation instinct, sexual instinct, and social instinct.<\/p>\n Which Instinct is in each of these three places\u2014most, middle, and least developed\u2014produces what we call our \u201cInstinctual Stack\u201d (like a three-layer cake) with your dominant Instinct on top, the next most developed Instinct in the middle, and the least developed on the bottom).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I was blown away with the results after taking my own\u00a0Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator<\/a>. As I was taking the questionnaire, there were certain questions when I felt, “ugh, these are the same to me. I can’t pick one over the other. I bet this won’t be very spot on when I finish.” Boy, was I wrong! The Levels of Development for my type was such an eye-opening process. One in which I kept saying, “Yes! Exactly!”<\/p>\n Divas, your inner work invitation for the day is to simply set aside the time and the $12 (I am not an affiliate or otherwise connected to this organization) it takes to go through the\u00a0Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator<\/a>. Please feel free to share your thoughts and your types in the comments below. Or, as always, hit me up on Twitter! I’m @mezzoihnen<\/a>.<\/p>\nRiso-Hudson Type Names<\/h3>\n
\nType Two<\/strong> is generous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, and possessive.
\nType Three<\/strong> is adaptable, excelling, driven, and image-conscious.
\nType Four<\/strong> is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental.
\nType Five<\/strong> is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated.
\nType Six<\/strong> is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious.
\nType Seven<\/strong> is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered.
\nType Eight<\/strong> is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational.
\nType Nine<\/strong> is receptive, reassuring, complacent, and resigned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLevels of Development<\/h3>\n
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The Subtypes<\/h3>\n
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Show Your (Inner) Work<\/h3>\n
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