'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyieFu7BnHE while doing ENEG Models hw. Programming is rough.|||I agreed mostly with what you said. The problem is that core motivation can be really hard to distinguish, so I personally try to type by coping strategies foremost (which comes out a lot through...|||No offense taken. I am newish to enneagram. I think I just nailed down my tritype. (9w8 sp/sx 3w4 5w4)  I was just giving a short answer because I didn't know what else to write. I was requoting a...|||By integrating your core, you balance your wing's energy. For example, 9w8s when integrating begin to have more control over their 8 wing and can call upon that energy with more control without it...|||I wouldn't call it smothering others growth-- I would consider it ripping other people down and feeding off of their pain. Unhealthy Fe is abusive and sadistic. As an INTP with inferior Fe, I have...|||Exquis  That is how I am with people. I have friends, but I also isolate myself. It takes a lot of effort to be friends with people and actively seek them out. It got a lot better this summer for...|||I can relate to quite a bit of what you said, but on a lesser level. I am not a professional and have only been studying Enneagram for about a year, so I am not credible. It sounds like you are...|||Salmon  Wait... INTPs are stereotyped to watch tentacle porn???!!!?!?!?!?!?!   I wouldn't touch that with a 100 foot pole. Hell no!|||I think that is a question for extraverted 9s and/ or social and sexual 9s. I am a self preserving 9, so I don't need nor desire the human contact as much as so and sx 9s do. 9s want to run from...|||INTP:  1. In group settings I am quite aggressive, and can push my ideas onto other people. I usually try to take the lead. 2. I don't really feel alienated in my society. In other societies, yes,...|||Link-- INTP - Chapter 6: How to Date (and Interpret) an INTP  Really good!|||komorebi  I probably can't help you much-- I am an 18 year old INTP 9w8 sp/sx female getting into her first relationship-- so my advice is not credible. But, I can attempt.  His enneagram would...|||I find it rather irritating being called a girl. Thing is, I look like I am 12, so I can't really get offended.   I think being called a girl by those who are in my age range or younger is...|||He has it backwards.  Most type 9s are introverts. Their outer world is dull. They dissociate from reality into their inner world and into their pseudo reality. This is a really good essay about...|||So, I made this thread a few days ago. I would like to delete it because it has some very personal information I regret putting in there. I was also very stressed at the time so the information...|||periwinklepromise  Ugh. I relate to what you said about the stereotype that 4s are artists a lot, and that no other type has as much artistic talent. :dry:  I recently wondered if I was actually...|||This is a good series about each enneagram type. I spotted some inaccuracies with the type 9 guide. It is very in depth about each types motivations. See if you relate to one of the head types more....|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyWhc-CGBg  From what you wrote above, you sound like a type 4. Type 4s withdraw their emotions like 9s, but they explore unlike 9s. They obsess over all emotions...|||specofturquoise The tests are good for helping you find your tritype, but should be taken with a grain of salt. I would do more research into the types themselves. If you think you have a 4 in your...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2wL8pRDREQ|||I agree with the instincts so/sx-- You are group focused. You also seem to put meaningful experience as second place.  Socionics - the16types.info - Instinctual Stackings  To find tritype, first...|||I am thinking  4w5 or 9wX.   4 https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-4/ http://personalitycafe.com/type-4-forum-individualist/39234-enneatype-4-wings.html...|||This is a guide for ESTJ and ENFP relationships. This is based off of the cognitive functions and is pretty general. Individuals will not relate to everything written here based off of personal...|||specofturquoise https://www.qzzr.com/c/quiz/268918/enneagram-tritype-test  better test|||Found an article with links to all of the type descriptions. It is glorious.  Articles - Enneagram Article Series|||Hey y'all! I am trying to compile a list of PerC threads with useful and insightful Enneagram information. Websites, videos, and books are also welcome. Any threads in the past that contain useful...|||Marv I am saving this post for future reference. It's the friggin' truth.  #relatable|||All of the tritype discriptions if you are interested.  http://personalitycafe.com/enneagram-personality-theory-forum/73452-27-tritype-archetype-descriptions.html|||You probably have 4 in your tritype. (Research if interested) Nope, not possible, many 9s have this issue as well with thinking their wing is an impossible combination. I thought I was a 9w5 when...|||I was really suprised reading about 9w8 behaviorisms as well.   Yeah-- that is a messed up cycle.(Relateable but my 8 wing makes me a bit more clingy-- not sure if that is a good thing or not) I...|||Marv I am attempting to control my anger as well. Venting it helps, believe it or not. When I suppress it, the dam always breaks and everything comes out 10x worse then it was originally. So, find a...|||charlie.elliot Hmm... Yeah, I would agree with the emotional context of those repress vs. dissociate. If you look at how those words are used in everyday context-- repress is a violent word...|||Type 9:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QEPrkwZ-Q|||I would consider ignoring emotions or overwriting them as repressing them.  When we try to understand our own emotions, we can't because we have made a habit of not feeling them that we have...|||Yay! Responses from 9w1s! When I was first getting into enneagram and had little to no understanding of it, I mistyped myself as a 9w1. When I got into the motivations and behaviors, I realized that...|||Real Mbti: INTP 16 Personality test: ENTP Real Enneagram: 9w8 Enneagram Institute: 9w8 Real instinctual: sp/sx  Test instinctual: sp  sx 42% so 42% Alignment: Chaotic Good ? Hog warts:...|||http://personalitycafe.com/whats-my-enneagram-type/84019-enneagram-questionnaire.html http://personalitycafe.com/whats-my-enneagram-type/111173-enneagram-questionnaire.html  Is this thread in the...|||More of a lust for feeling alive. A lust to live.|||Nick5  I haven't learned about Socionics yet. I have taken quizzes on it and I got LII- INTj Alpha. I don't know what the preference of cognitive functions are though. I also got ILE-ENTp once. ...|||Just looked it up. Turns out 5 is greed. They want to have all the information. (I just looked it up. What???)  5s are actually not afraid of loosing anything, they are afraid of being useless and...|||687738  *Le me*|||How do you even write your signature?|||I have been listening to Helen Palmers The Enneagram on audiobook. Apparently the enneagram was created with a christian perspective to explain how each deadly sin compares is more dominate in...|||SilverKelpie  The profile for INTP 5w4 is similar to INTP 9. Both are both idealistic and are prone to drug use.  I have been trying to figure out if my 5 tritype has a w4 or w6, and I think I...|||Reality. Human Nature. Having my intelligence and worth insulted.|||Well if you are interested in learning, Don Richard Riso is a great author and published go-to enneagram books. Helen Palmer is another known Enneagram author, I am not sure about her credentials...|||Apparently that is rare. I wondered if I was going to run into problems like that if I did the wings and almost decided against it, but I wanted to be as detailed as possible.|||Depends on how mentally healthy I am at the time. Usually I am pretty happy. Under stress I become, well, stressed, and have pretty much have every negative emotion there is. My most constant emotion...|||So INTPs, what is your enneagram and how does it manifest within you?|||Double post :('