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Enneagram Type 7, 8 or 9?

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The enneagram type 7 is termed as an enthusiast, 8 as a challenger and 9 as an enneagram peacemaker. They are related to each other and may express some common characteristics while handling their environment.

Enneagram Type 7; the Enthusiast

Wings

The enneagram types six and eight work as your wings. Sometimes, you may show behaviors of a challenging enthusiast. At other times you may support other with the same level of enthusiasm.

Active Enneagram Type

You are abnormally active enneagram type. You love to make new experiments, visualize big dreams and make them happen. You have lot of talents and skills. Your activity may lead you to a workaholic and you may forget your priorities.

Optimist Enneagram Type

You are a born optimist leader. You can visualize and plan for long periods and wait patiently for the results.

You believe in your visions. But you tend to ignore positive criticism. When you listen well, you may perform the best in any given situation.

Your curiosity helps you to see the world as a playground. Every new experiment and skills adds your optimism to change the game positively.

Spontaneous Enneagram Type

As an enneagram personality type seven, you are spontaneous in your words and actions. Your practical approach and novel experiments help you to select the best goals. You are versatile. However, your versatility may result in complete disorganization.

Lucky Type

The enneagram personality type seven is considered a lucky type. However, it is neither luck nor your stars but your attitude to your environment. You plan solidly and wait anxiously for new opportunities. And when they come, you are ready to receive them.

Enneagram Type 8, the Challenger

However, when your left wing (enneagram type seven) is stronger, you confront with enthusiasm. Otherwise, when your right wing (enneagram peacemaker) is stronger, you become a protector.

Your Fear

The biggest fear for the enneagram type eight is control of others. You prefer to control your environment and the people around you. You hate to flow with waters.

Your challenge to environment is your way to handle your fear. You know that once you get control of the situation, you can maneuver as you like. You plan to control not only flow of your life but also your destiny. However, you tend to be reckless, opportunist and ego-centric, at times.

Protector

It depends upon your stronger wing whether you become a challenger or a protector. However, in most of the cases, you prove a protector while dealing with your family members.

Man of Crisis

This enneagram type shows the best talents in crisis. You feel every bad situation a challenge to your control. To have a control, you assert yourself forcefully. You express your opinion very strongly and love others to respect it. You prove yourself a man of crisis in any organization and for any job.

Decisiveness

You make forceful decisions. You are considered the toughest enneagram personality type for your straight forward approach. You love those people who decide the same way as you do. However, you don’t want them to interfere in your independence.

Advice

You need to concentrate upon your development consciously. Each new challenge should add to your experience and not to your fear. You need to build a habit to forget the bad things quickly. You should also think to give a part of your control to your subordinates. It shall help you to focus upon the big picture.

Type 9; Enneagram Peace Maker

The enneagram peacemaker not only understands but also makes conscious effort to bring harmony in his environment.

When your right wing is stronger, you harmonize the environment with your reforming behaviors. However, when your left wing is stronger, you may challenge the environment for the same purpose. Your main characteristics include:

Mediator

Enneagram peacemaker is a perfect mediator. You have capability to create consensus amongst the war parties. You prove an excellent negotiator when you are asked to complete a dialogue successfully. You can reconcile the burning fires. You can visualize the solutions which are acceptable to all parties.

Adaptation

A pure enneagram peacemaker has the highest degree of adaptability to his environment. In most of the cases, you believe, that the best way to harmonize your environment is just refine yourself. You rarely try to speed up happening of things. You prefer to follow flow of the events.

Good Listener

The enneagram peacemaker is considered an excellent listener. You weigh others’ opinions before expressing your own. You fear that you may disharmonize your environment by giving a conflicting opinion.

Your Weaknesses

You have tendency to agree with others’ opinion very easily. It is just your fear for turmoil otherwise you may have a strong opinion with convincing arguments. You can sacrifice your logic even.

You often forget to assert yourself properly.

Opportunists can easily exploit you for your desire for peace and stability. They may use you as tools for their own purposes. You tend to forget your own priorities for harmonization.

Your ideas have great diversity but you often fail to focus. You tend to involve in trivial details and miss your big picture.

At times you fall to inertia.

It is positive when you are involved in some positive activity. However, it becomes a curse when you are doing nothing. Luckily, change of environment creates a fear of de-stability and helps you to break your negative inertia.

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