Test

This test makes easier the recognition of your own Type. The purpose is to understand your way to act toward people in the different situations of your life, trying to make your usual attitudes emerge on the ones due to a transitory period. To make this happen you must answer with much calm and concentration, choosing among the given answers the one you feel closer to you ; you can choose two answers, giving the order..

THE  IMAGE I HAVE ABOUT MYSELF

 I am always ready to help everybody
 I am a successful person
 I am different from others in everything
 I am perspicacious and understand things in the right way
 I am a diligent person and I always make my duty
 I am a person that is looking for happiness
 I am strong and live with authority my relationships
 I am satisfied about my life
 I think I am always right


I FEEL REALIZED WHEN I AM

 Original		Polite			Learned
 Wise			Shrewd	  		Receptive
 Observant		Disciplined		Reliable
 Optimist		Joyful			Pleasant
 Impartial		Strong			Superior
 Calm			Armonic			Well-balanced
 Frank			Careful			Precise
 Extrovert		Open-handed		Obliging
 Winner		Expert			Skilled


WHAT I THINK ABOUT MYSELF WHEN OTHERS DON’T UNDERSTAND ME

 I am a trustworthy person and I respect the rules even if others don’t do
  it
 I am happy, but I look for new things as I want to be happier
 I have to struggle every day to earn some room ; I have to do it otherwise 
  the others will take advantage of me
 I leave my world to go the way it goes, even if others would like me to do
  something to change it
 I am often right and things would work better if people would listen to 
  what I say
 I love others even if they don’t give me as much love as I give them
 I am superior to others and this makes others envious
 I am different from others and I feel I can’t completely adapt myself to
  the world around me
 I understand things better than the others and none knows as many things
  as I do


THE THING I MOST AVOID

 To show my weakness
 To argue with someone
 To be carried away with anger
 To need someone’s help
 To show I am wrong
 A life without emotions
 The sensation to be empty inside
 To act in the wrong way
 The wearyness to live


WHAT I THINK IF I AM CHARGED TO DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT

 I do not rest till I have done it
 I feel pleased they looked for me and I will do more than they asked me
 They couldn’t have done anything better choosing me and I advertise it
 It depends on the way I feel
 Why did they look for me ? Anyway I will do it
 I’m afraid they choose me as there wasn’t anybody else ; I will ask for
  help to do it
 I will do it if I like it, otherwise I will lay the responsability on
  someone else
 I will do it in a very good way if it depends just on me
 As soon as I fell like I will do it


HOW DO I ACT IN AN ARGUE

 I will hardly  admit I am wrong
 I won’t allow the other to disturb my interior balance
 I try to get time to meditate a reaction
 I fight, but just to defend myself from the strength of the person I am
  facing
 I try to avoid the argue, most of the times it is not worth to quarrel
 I don’t allow to the other to take advantage on me
 I let the other to relieve his anger
 I fight to defend my reasons
 I don’t allow the other to see my anger


I’M HAPPY TO USE MY FORCES TO...

 know what is around me
 collaborate with the  persons near me
 enjoy the delights of life
 fight for justice
 live quietly
 look for perfection
 serve who is around me
 achieve my objects
 know myself


WHEN I AM WITH MY FRIENDS...

 I always look for new stimuli to share with many others
 I stay with people that allow me to speak
 I am expansive and I like to be fondled
 I like relationships clean and sharp
 I like it very much but if there are too many persons I don’t know who to
  choose
 I immediatly find something of what I did to show them
 I feel at my easy just with the persons that feel the thing the way I do
 I listen carefully to them but without saying to much of what I think
 I feel secure and I say and do more than I am used to

This test means to be an indication to help you to find your Type in the Enneagram.
For dispatch it to us, send a Mail with your "responses" to vassallo@split.it
As you can imagine it is difficult to individuate a Type from few answers, but this means to be an attempt to get closer to this system.
We should like you to communicate to us if the indications we gave you has shown themselves to be useful and, first of all, correct: thanks for your observations ; we hope to eliminate any error in the identification.


Good work in knowing yourself,

Stefano


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