Yesterday a friend asked me to take the enneagram test, and down the rabbit hole I went. Me being who I am, I immediately started looking into personality tests, which was something I've started looking into in the past, but never really delved too far. I recalled how I once took the classic Myers-Briggs test... or at least a free online version. I remembered being slightly unconvinced by my results, so I figured it would be fun to retake it.
This:
Which would seem to make sense... except I dug up my test results from my first attempt and they were:
You see where the confusion comes in. It almost appears as though I'm completely bonkers. That wouldn't be too shocking, but I think there might be another plausible explanation.
I've known for quite a while that certain parts of my personality are rather fluid, as I believe those of most people are. In fact, I'd say the most fluid parts of my personality are the three which have such distinctly different results - Some days I'm extraverted, others introverted; some days I think more, others I follow my feelings a bit more - though I do try to keep a nice balance of both, and I think my results indicate that I usually pull it off; and of course some days I care more about results, some day considerably less (for some reason I never find myself in the middle on that one.)
Which would seem to be a viable explanation, except the Myers-Briggs test is supposed to show more of a nature based type, and the enneagram the nurture based. I don't know about you, but I'd think the variation in my personality tend to be more based off nurture than nature.
Anyways. That's what happened to my day today, and it was rather interesting at that. And just in case you're curious, my enneagram classification is apparently rather strongly a type four with a type five wing.
If you're interested, here's a general desription of how the enneagram works. Enjoy.
-hyperbole out
p.s. - sorry for the extremely out-of-character post. (Maybe that's just my fluctuating personality going off) I just spent a coupla hours on this, so it's kinda stuck in my head.
