TO BE NOTED:
The paragraph listed herewith are only few things that can be said about the nine types of Enneagram...
The human aspects that make each of us different, are thousands and thousands; and therefore we can state that it is a presumptuous approach to say this, we wish that these few lines will be of help to find that this is only the beginning of a trip in our internal personality.
You will find later on this writing also some indication of spiritual growth. We however have always noted that it is not a simple task to judge our own personality without an outside guidance.
To be noted: the few sentences written about each type are made up by positive and negative, respectively using the "round" and "cursive " fonts. It is also obvious that any expression is not an absolute statement but needs to be analysed as a personal opinion.


The type one likes an ideal world full of truth, justice, morality; for these ideals he will always fight; however, starting from himself, he feels that this is not real. He believes to be always right on his statements, he believes that the world could be far better by following his ideals. He always look for perfection, starting from himself. He wants everybody to agree with his views; he is good telling others the way to be followed; however he is not willing to wait for the fruits to be in seasons, neither in himself; but, looking at himself he finds his own weakness. All of this is unacceptable for him, showing all of his unhappiness that clearly prove his own character. Most likely he will get very ashamed , he tries to deny this even to himself: he can punch on the table and loudly state that he is not hungry. May be sometime is afraid to take decisions he has to appeal to his own serious ideals, to his continuous engagements, this is due to fact that is knows that he can meet the target; he is also able to leave by himself, but to do this he has to be self confident.


He is a lovely person: he tries to be polite to other persons requirements ; for this reason the others are happy to be his friend. To the contrary it is difficult to get his friendship: rarely he will accept somebody else support, and even worst also in case of needs he does not want to be helped by anybody including his close friends.(he is very proud ……), he does not want anybody help. (he is prepared to do, however he would like be supported but he will never ask for help. He is always available for others, he would do anything for them , one of his major mistakes is the fact that he does not know limits. however he is doing hoping that others will reciprocate. He is a good guy that always says " yes "(… even if he would like to do more than what he is actually doing). He does not realise that by doing this the others feel overpowered. He needs to learn the lesson and to leave others more independent rather than always sacrifice himself just to be offended in case of non recognition of his efforts.


This type is very rare even if it may seems unusual, as this is the nowadays incarnation : the today west society grow this type of person, he knows very well how to fulfil his duties. He act as a leader and he measures himself with others in order to appear always the best (usually he points out that the others are Jealous of his success). He his very good in suggesting strategy to the group , while he has problems to interface himself with others . He his very good in measuring others people personality. He his very good to achieve positive results however he is not able to evaluate wrong developments: he tries to minimise the problems, he tries to prove that others are responsible for mistakes, he always stop doing things which are proven to be wrong to start with something new: whenever he has not got the possibility to hide his failure he will always try to pin point others defects. He is a teacher to find others negatives sides; he is not as good in hiding his own striking appearance.Everything that does give him lights is always changed to meet his own objectives. He is a liar. He knows very how to proceed to bring his results to the success, however frequently despite the fact that he is part of the team he tries to influence it from the outside, he never gets involved, what he likes is to be leader at any time. He is an fighter and the others require his charm to work with more motivation.


He is a very sensitive person that tries continuously the feeling of harmony and beauty; he has a difficult character, he always believes that minor details are actually very important. He often feels isolated from the group he tends to compare himself with others with a clear envy (he is jealous); he feels isolated by the group; he spends his life to remember the past, hoping in a better future, unhappy about the current situation. His life is a continuous swinging of wishes and possession ; he does not accept the reality whenever different from his imagination. He likes to enjoy positive developments but he will never mix himself with others, in getting involved in difficult subjects . Whenever rarely he may decide to help somebody then he is the real good person to support others to discover the life mission.


He is a good listener and this makes him a very patient person , he is able to spread internal peace. He often looks for a lonely life style to find the knowledge: his life is a continuous research ! The risk the one of closing himself in this personality research, without giving anything( nor transpiring feeling) for the others. He has a great interior strength that is often use has instrument to fight and defend himself, to this he applies to look at things with attention and respect: he has a great capacity to get particulars to improve his life experience. Often he looks like unconcerned , but the reasons it is only the fact that he does want to show anything of his sentiments:he is good a good listener, but he does know how to get involved: he lives picking up here and there anything, like what he has would not be sufficient: he always risk to be slave of STINGINESS ! Essentially not of consumer goods, but even of ideas. of feelings, of little and larger discovery that he makes. He never offer one of his finger, as he is afraid of others taking is harm. However is the ideal person to listen to others and that use his " snobby approach " to help others to clarify their own interior. He has a great capacity of analysing the others.


His main and principle attitude is the one of being loyal and responsible. He feels that his friends cannot be replaced and he feels protected by each of them; on the contrary he feels uncertain and in difficulties when he has not got anybody to rely on. He requires straight rules to which however he blind adhere, without being able to clearly understand them. He is always full of doubts, mainly about himself, but also on the reality where he lives: and this is why he is often pushed(or on the contrary, he fights and over react prior to being attached) from the FEAR; he risks to leave his relationship with mistrust, thinking that behind compliments there is always a trap. However he is very con-operative, he spend all of his energy to make sure that the group share problems and socialise; the real problem is that he essentially a looser and therefore makes his target nearly impossible ; whenever he is successful he prefer to think that the goal has been achieved thanks to somebody else. He always require somebody that pushes him and that present to him solutions to his problems(this "authority " could be even a significant book) and the answer also to the others. One of his major defects that he has is the fact that his always want to punish at any rate somebody that has made even the smallest imperfection; this a consequence of his ideas, and the ones that he made is life style, and those that he has made personal(but that are not his own ideas at all …).


His main function seems to be the one of bringing happiness and joy of life wherever he is normally; he can be very ironic, fanciful, playful, he can be a great bluffer as he required few details to have a full picture. Easily, however, to linger upon subjects, he prefers to enjoy things, even quick things, he does not want to go deeper, he is GREEDY (always looks for new subjects !). He knows how to resolve and overcome even very difficult situations. Unfortunately when is hart cries, others do not taking him serious, this due to the fact that they are not used to see him " SERIOUS ". He likes only a nice and not too difficult world; whenever something that makes things difficult he tend to disappear. He likes to be involved in thousands of new and different subjects; he will eventually stop only if everything gets heavy and complicated to manage. Since he cannot see shades in his world, he risks to dream too an ideal world where the commitment to construct gets second priority: the main objective is " to enjoy the life ".


Such a person is equipped with a never ending strength, he can powerful and knows how to fight with skill; in his interior there is a deep feeling of justice and truth. However whenever this feeling overtakes, he risk to force himself to be the " executioner " on any injustice. He could be a great army leader, the one that could lead a bunch of tatterdemalion to a rebellion and to the victory ; the only problems is that he must be on power : he does not want to be second and does not know how to act as a second; is main vice is indeed the LEWDNESS(that in his interior is power on the others " I do whatever I like ". Sometime he can be very rude, he is the strong in power and whoever reports or is behind him has to give away. He has great physical and mental strength, he prefers to give orders rather than receiving them, he has difficulties to admit his mistakes, this due to the fact that in his opinion this may appear a weakness. He likes clear and defined subjects, he is very direct on his statement, without any care of others reaction. He look down to craven persons and to the ones that easily give away and are too flexible. Whenever he is positive he can be a good leader.


His greatest talent is the one of being a peace maker: he is essentially a peace maker! He is a very straight person that always act in order to have justice and peace in place and to help others to rebuild what has been destroyed. His non violence talent is so radical on his personality has created in himself a sort of self defence that enable him to resolve any problems that could jeopardise his life style, this makes his character lazy, he only react whenever something disturb his status: then at that point he will take measures to resolve the problems, but he will not do anything else (he is a LAZY); he will only do whatever is required to enable himself to leave in peace. His style of talking creates trust even on enemies. For this reasons he is researched as a peace maker ; on the friendship he can overcome very difficult situations due to his talent in being calm and friendly; he looks like not being involved in the problems and in violent situations, instead he is an accumulator that will explode at a later stage may be for little subjects even not remarkable.



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