This test is designed to score your results for the following 306 items, the first 27 of which scoring how closely you identify with a set of limiting subconscious beliefs for each Enneagram type (3 randomly chosen for each type), the next 27 of which scoring how closely you identify with a set of coping strategies employed as a result of having these subconscious beliefs (again, a random 3 of each type), the next 90 of which scoring you along a set of natural gifts and talents for each type (10 of each) and the last 162 of which scoring you along the three subtype descriptions for the nine types with 6 items chosen for each subtype: 3 positive items and 3 negative items. Because there are 846 items stored in the database, you will receive a random 306 of those 846 items whenever you take this test; your results are therefore subject to change upon a retest.
You can select five options per question, where the leftmost choice corresponds to "disagree/no" and the rightmost choice corresponds to "agree/yes." The three options in the middle correspond to only moderate preferences for each side, the middle option being specifically for "no preference for either side." To aid you in remembering this, "yes" and "no" have been labeled on their corresponding columns and have been colored appropriately.
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The following is a list of limiting subconscious beliefs for each type; please choose the appropriate choice for each belief.
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The following is a list of coping strategies for each type, where they focus their attention as a result of their subconscious beliefs; please choose the appropriate choice for each belief.
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#28 Repress feelings for maximum performance and results
#29 Comparing self to others and judging self and others
#30 Feeling superior (to those less deep and/or sensitive)
#31 Work exceptionally hard and compete to be the best
#32 Having a strong sense of self and being self-assertive
#33 "Mismatch," an NLP term meaning I look for and notice what is NOT present in any experience -- what is missing
#34 Fitting in to society and working for common goals
#35 Going along with others' agendas
#36 Natural Socratic method of questioning to get to truth
#37 Heightened imagination and positive, anticipatory thinking
#38 Taking control of everything and everyone
#39 Putting a positive reframe on negative experiences
#40 Manage time for maximum efficiency and productivity
#41 Tuning in to inner states and feelings to actualize the self
#42 Winning important others over with kindness, charm and seduction
#43 Having a high threshold for pain
#44 Looking for something and/or someone outside the self to believe in and put loyalty into
#45 Being dutiful and aligning with others to feel safe
#48 Pleasing, harmonizing and accommodating to avoid conflict
#49 Detach from feelings to prevent emotional overwhelm
#50 Dissociating from threatening events
#51 Seeking knowledge to explain life and feel safe
#52 "Mind reading" (you often assume you know what others are thinking and feeling)
#53 Not recognizing that you even have needs
#54 Indirectly displacing anger through correcting errors and/or championing social causes
I have these natural gifts and talents that I take for granted:
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#55 The ability to discipline myself, as necessary, to succeed
#56 The ability to win friends and influence people (it's great when I'm running for election, interviewing or auditioning for a part)
#57 The ability to work well under pressure
#58 The ability to bring people together
#59 The ability to multitask (example: ride lifecycle, watch news, read newspaper (business section first?), and network or do business on the cell phone..... at 5:00 am)
#60 The ability to pull myself up by my own bootstraps
#61 The ability to improve myself and my work over time (a commitment to excellence)
#62 The ability to inspect, scrutinize and examine something carefully and thoroughly
#63 The ability to invent new theories, models or systems to solve problems
#64 The ability to listen compassionately and allow people to feel understood
#65 The ability to focus and concentrate fully when I'm on task
#66 The ability to empathize with people and console and reassure them
#67 The ability to be touched deeply by beauty, kindness and love as well as sadness, sorrow and pain
#68 The ability to comfort, support and empathize with others
#69 The ability to set, plan, organize and achieve goals
#70 The ability to feel connected with others (and even one with the universe)
#71 The ability to inspect products, services, or processes to evaluate their quality or performance
#72 The ability to take initiative/action and get things done (and get things done quickly)
#73 The ability to bring enthusiasm, optimism, passion and fun to whatever work I do
#74 The ability to accept/appreciate differences and go with the flow
#75 The ability to build rapport and trust with anyone by being genuinely interested in them
#76 The ability to foresee problems and troubleshoot them before they occur
#77 The ability to be sincere and authentic about who I am which gives others permission to be honest and real about who they are
#78 The ability to endure triumphantly/honorably through any tragedy, misfortune, or adversity
#79 The ability to create "works of art" (term used broadly) that are beautiful, poetic, touching
#80 The ability to work long and hard on anything that captures my interest/imagination
#81 The ability to build trust with people with my strong sense of loyalty, duty and commitment
#82 The ability to move into focused action when known difficulties/problems arise
#83 The ability to read people well, build rapport, and make friends easily
#84 The ability to detect when someone is being untruthful
#85 The ability to see the big picture and develop long-range strategic goals
#86 The ability to creatively solve highly complex and mentally challenging problems
#87 The ability to follow rules, procedures and policies (as long as they are fair and ethical)
#88 The ability to create and provide stability and security for others
#89 The ability to work in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment calling for quick thinking/action
#90 The ability to protect and help those that have been taken advantage of or mistreated
#91 The ability to direct my own life and not be swayed, influenced or coerced by others
#92 The ability to work long and hard on someone else's behalf
#93 The ability to enforce policies and procedures and speak up against dishonesty/unfairness
#94 The ability to multitask and juggle many roles and responsibilities in life
#95 The ability to take control of a bad situation (a failing business or government, for example) and turn it around
#96 The ability to help other types get in touch with their deeper feelings
#97 The ability to perform and play a role well
#98 The ability to synthesize others' ideas and form my own
#99 The ability to listen well and empathize deeply with others
#100 The ability to promote honesty, fairness, righteousness and evenhandedness in others
#101 The ability to perceive, discern and mentally interpret information that escapes most people
#102 The ability to create peace and harmony between people (and even countries)
#103 The ability to endure hardships and difficult times (with my quiet strength and tenacity)
#104 The ability to praise people and make them feel good about themselves
#105 The ability to do what I say I will do
#106 The ability to beautify any environment
#107 The ability to cheer people up when they're down or just lighten the mood of others
#108 The ability to see the big picture and the implications of my actions and ideas
#109 The ability to put people at ease with my even-keeled presence, calmness and patience
#110 The ability to adapt, accommodate, "go with the flow" and "live-and-let-live"
#111 The ability to run my own business successfully
#112 The ability to see the good in others
#113 The ability to reveal deep, hidden, subtle truths about the human condition that have profound affects on people because they are experienced universally but unspoken of
#114 The ability to work hard with steady and persistent effort to achieve goals
#115 The ability to listen objectively and non-judgmentally and give unbiased advise
#116 The ability to synthesize vast amounts of information
#117 The ability to pay careful attention to details
#118 The ability to sell, promote and market myself, my services, and my products
#119 The ability to conceptually understand the fundamental principles of how anything works
#120 The ability to ensure the welfare of those I care about
#121 The ability to seek to understand myself deeply (and then help humanity do the same)
#122 The ability to take daring risks but based on practical intuition
#123 The ability to see patterns and possibilities
#124 The ability to feel things deeply and share the depths of my soul with others, warts and all
#125 The ability to nurture and cultivate love and kindness in others
#126 The ability to help people relax, see the big picture, and put things in perspective
#127 The ability to value life's simple pleasures and comforts
#128 The ability to identify and capitalize on good ideas and turn them into profit
#129 The ability to synthesize other peoples' ideas and present my own original ones
#130 The ability to act spontaneously and adapt quickly to changing situations
#131 The ability to behave appropriately and be polite and well-mannered
#132 The ability to lead discussion groups and build teams
#133 The ability to put myself in someone else's shoes and consider their feelings
#134 The ability to create financial independence (because of my strong desire not to be dependent on anyone)
#135 The ability to empower and encourage others to be strong and take charge of their life
#136 The ability to use good common sense and take a realistic, pragmatic approach to life
#137 The ability to achieve any goal I set for myself, by working long and hard if necessary
#138 The ability to listen to people patiently, attentively and nonjudgmentally
#139 The ability to sense danger and often prevent it from happening
#140 The ability to see the bright side of any problem or situation
#141 The ability to see deep underlying principles of life and universal truths that escape most
#142 The ability to sacrifice immediate, personal gratification for the greater good of all
#143 The ability to offer hospitality
#144 The ability to quickly understand computers and technology
The following is a list of statements taken from each subtype description. Please choose the appropriate choice for each item.
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#145 Are extremely loyal to and protective of people you care about
#146 Often have a strong sex drive (which helps you get involved in and stick with a relationship)
#147 Easily get bored with mundane reality so you embellish it with fantasy, imagination & wishful thinking
#148 Dislike feeling burdened by your obligations and responsibilities; wish you could escape
#149 Get disappointed when your partner doesn't share the same zest for fun and adventure in life as you do
#150 Are willing to confront people who take advantage of your kindness and charity
#151 Embody the "life of the party" type who gets drunk and disorderly, especially when young and single
#152 Are able to deal with difficult, even painful, situations by choosing to see the positive that can come from any situation
#153 Like to be seen with successful people to enhance their own social value
#154 At worst, can be an eccentric, isolated weirdo who is prone to delusional, obsessive paranoid thinking
#155 Adapt and compromise yourself to look good and fit in
#156 Are highly suggestible and if you don't have good boundaries and morals, you can be promiscuous
#157 Want desperately to be perfect and ideal in every way but can't play the different roles simultaneously
#158 Like to help others with their material and physical needs
#159 Can expect preferential treatment for love and attention given to others
#160 Want success but worry about feeling overwhelmed and overstressed by too much responsibility
#161 Able to be extremely open-hearted, compassionate and loving toward all sentient beings
#162 Obsessively think about their partner
#163 So focused on goals, mission, purpose that you can't relate to people
#164 Responsible and security conscious
#165 Have an interest in the group's welfare because you feel the group's welfare is connected to your own
#166 Great at organizing meetings, facilitating projects
#167 Loving, attentive to others, generous
#168 Your lust for life makes you prone to excess --' late nights, heavy entertaining, drinking, eating, etc.
#169 Too intense for others
#170 Tend to be lusty in love; can be competitive, impulsive and impatient too
#171 Great at saving and investing money
#172 Can appear intimidating, arrogant or callous as a way to get people to not mess with you and, thus, not threaten or scare them
#173 May deceive yourself and others by projecting an affluent image
#174 Overly concerned with getting credentials and judging people by their credentials (degrees, titles, etc.)
#175 Test limits and boundaries with your friends initially to see if they are loyal, honorable and trustworthy
#176 Intuitively know the needs and interests of others
#177 Want to make sure you always have what you need and aren't deprived, limited or constricted
#178 Take criticism very personally
#179 At worst, become completely dishonest, phony, exploitative and desperate for attention
#181 Extremely sensitive to rejection, disrespect and betrayal
#182 Would make a great teacher, mathematician, scientist, consultant or computer programmer
#183 Ambitious and hard working
#184 Seductive; desire to be valued, wanted and desired
#185 Substitute nonessential satisfactions (such as eating, watching TV, sleeping a lot, shopping, playing on the computer, daydreaming, collecting things, reading, puttering about the house) for essential satisfactions (aligning choices/behaviors with core values, inner sense of meaning/purpose, etc.)
#186 Feel drawn to anything or anyone that is unique, unusual, complex, mysterious, intense or beautiful
#187 Choose a safe career rather than risk doing what you love
#188 Can be fairly conventional and conforming; you may not like to go beyond the limits
#189 You sometimes have inner tension between wanting to merge vs. wanting to keep your autonomy
#190 Won't let down your guard or relax your control in a relationship until you know it is safe to do so
#191 Are sociable, generous, friendly and extremely honorable with those you love
#192 Often very loyal to family and friends; enjoy nurturing and caring for your own
#193 Want the best for everyone else as well as yourself
#194 Keep physically fit and healthy
#195 Can see life as a struggle; may believe only the strong survive; can be hard-hearted, anti-social
#196 Feel most alive when tempting fate; can lead to crisis situations
#197 Can be disillusioned and resentful of authority figures if they end up disappointing you in some way
#198 You like to get involved in groups that further social causes
#199 Extremely accepting of other people's individuality and right to express themselves
#200 Fastidious, picky and finicky
#201 Stand by your true friends through thick and thin; will come to their defense in times of need
#202 Always have other people's welfare in mind as well as your own
#203 Can be fickle and cancel appointments if something more exciting or promising comes up
#204 You can invite aggressive reactions to your belligerent reactions
#205 Are passionate about life
#206 Can feel lost between hope and despair and take risks to get attention or increase emotional excitement
#207 Excellent at connecting people together for their mutual benefit
#208 At worst, can be an antisocial crackpot propounding your provocative, even anarchistic views to others
#209 Careful with money and possessions, don't risk them foolishly chasing a pipedream
#210 Hypochondria possible
#211 You can occasionally act counterphobic and rebel against an
untrustworthy authority figure
#212 Can be self-deprecating, act vulnerable and bid to be rescued
#213 Since you can feel lost without a partner, you believe you find your personal identity by merging your life with your partner's; "my life" becomes "our life," but at the cost of my independence
#214 Can focus intently on work or a cause you believe in wholeheartedly
#215 Can be seductive, sexual, jealous and possessive; relationship problems cause depression
#216 Can be idealistic, sacrificing for a cause you believe in that serves something beyond just yourself
#217 At worst, can be obsessed with someone; stalking; fatal attractions
#218 You're very protective -- of yourself, your loved ones, your possessions, your friends, and others in need
#219 When your marriage inevitably hits a difficult patch, you stay positive, talk, and work through it
#220 Expressing feelings that occur in the moment is difficult without having time to think about them
#221 Sometimes you can unexpectedly leave/disappear for long periods of time without any notice
#222 Some choose work that helps others become more attractive
#223 Passionate
#224 Like to expose wrong-doing; willing to speak up and speak out
#225 You may like a partner to be strong and direct, to stand his/her ground against yourself
#226 Often compare yourself with more "normal" people and feel either more deficient or more elite
#227 You foster a sense of unity and deep connection with people you are close to (like your partner, parents, children, friends, pets, etc.), and for some your spiritual teacher or even All That Is
#228 Underlying feelings of scarcity cause you to withdraw into privacy
#229 Opinionated; believe you are the voice of the "truth"
#230 Are very loyal, dutiful and devoted to the people in your clan and work tirelessly on their behalf
#231 Can develop excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills
#232 Tend to be especially attracted to people who are distant or unavailable
#233 May aggressively pursue and overcome all obstacles/objections when you really like and want someone
#234 Try to allure and impress a romantic interest with your charisma, magnetism, success and confidence
#235 Desire to uphold and enforce rules for the good of all
#236 Responsible, willing to make sacrifices, detail-oriented, thrifty
#237 Overly concerned about how authority figures perceive you; feel the need to be well liked by them
#238 When healthy you can fight injustices courageously, especially with backing from your inner circle
#239 Excellent social skills and great conversationalists
#240 Can avoid groups and organizations altogether while still caring about your social position and how you are seen by society
#241 Can be aware of group expectations but have enough self-esteem to do what's best for yourself
#242 You may like symbols of success -- fancy car, nice big house, etc.
#243 Have a large circle of friends that you share interests, activities and enthusiasms with
#244 Tend to be a good conversationalist and advice giver
#245 Can be powerful and self-assertive
#246 Can feel incapable of meeting the same standards that others in the group are capable of meeting and fear that your defectiveness will eventually be found out and you will be rejected by the group
#247 Have hidden expectations of love being returned
#248 Some can neglect relationships and/or health due to heavy workload
#249 Know how to look attractive: you workout, eat right, pay attention to style and grooming, etc.
#250 Subconsciously believe that enough pleasureful experiences and possessions will bring you happiness
#251 At worst, you can spend out of control (possibly gambling as well), indulge their senses excessively (food, drink, drugs, sex, etc.) and push your bodies regularly to the point of exhaustion
#252 Can be a reformer, advocate and/or crusader
#253 You don't like having too many expectations or duties placed on you by the group
#254 If you feel misunderstood or rejected in any way you can become quite emotionally distant
#255 Often are a high achiever who participates in social causes; have unique talents and gifts to share
#256 Have learned to temper your impulsivity and risk taking; take calculated risks now
#257 Repress and stuff their feelings
#258 Energetic, practical, ambitious and hard working
#259 Workaholism and strong identification with their work
#260 Give their time, energy and even money to improve conditions for people and/or the world
#261 Can show healthy anger
#262 Can be so out of touch with your true self that you don't even know what you want
#263 Go after what you want
#264 Pride in ability to socially connect people and help others
#265 Always have other people's welfare in mind as well as your own
#266 Warm, friendly, pleasant, easy-going and considerate yet also dynamic and alive to yourself
#267 Stubborn refusal to give up your self-image of being someone special
#268 Can be tenacious, determined and resolute to achieve your lofty goals
#269 Want money and power to be able to insure your own well being and that of loved ones
#270 You avoid participating in group conflicts if at all possible
#271 When healthy, are concerned about eating well, exercising regularly, getting adequate sleep, paying bills on time and basically keeping yourself well-functioning
#272 Tend to worry and fret a great deal, especially about financial matters and your ability to survive
#273 Your goal is to keep your peace of mind and keep life comfortable --' at all costs!
#274 Good team players, get along well with others
#275 Get along well with individuals and groups that are very different from each other
#276 Maintain order and comfort for everyone in your home
#277 You are usually quite energetic and like to stay active
#278 Enjoy learning widely and broadly to understand what other experts in different fields have to say
#279 Like time alone. Can be balanced with regard to own needs vs. others' needs
#280 Can have unrealistically high expectations of their partner to fit their ideal fantasy of a mate
#281 Can have fixated beliefs and paranoia about anyone who is not in alignment with your beliefs
#282 Interested in physical and material well being
#283 Can have trouble setting your own goals and following through with your innermost intentions
#284 Like to be in high-profile positions; desire fame
#285 Can be excellent at investing money and creating stability/security for yourself and loved ones
#286 Tend to be assertive and confrontational in relationships; prefer intense relationships to comfortable ones
#287 Desire to find the perfect, ideal partner
#288 Can be overly protective of your time, money, space and energy output
#289 Truly want to have a partnership of equality where you don't feel the need to control and possess
#290 You can long for the ideal romantic union with a partner
#291 Often focus on maintaining your home and the stability of your home life
#292 Are goal-oriented, hard-working and energetic
#293 Procrastination
#294 Excellent material providers for your family and yourself; can be generous and big-hearted
#295 Have a lot of self-doubt about your sexual attractiveness and desirability
#296 You are easily influenced by the people around you, so you like to make people happy so that you can stay happy (and avoid any kind of conflict)
#297 Can bolster up your image to compensate for social insecurities: dressing up to the nines, having a unique social style/presentation, being glamorous but a little aloof, having elite membership, etc.
#298 Attracted to those on their way up or socially influential
#299 Like to know your partner's personal thoughts, feelings and desires, and like sharing their own
#300 Know how to get close to and intimate with people
#301 Can also be creative (somewhat like 4s) since you have a rich imagination and an eye for beauty
#302 Set personal goals regularly and don't sweep problems under the rug
#303 Want to know everything about your partner -- body, mind and soul; no secret is too sacred
#304 Self-reliant and independent
#305 Consider your home as somewhat like a castle, island, fortress or barrier of safety to protect yourself against the dangers of the outside world
#306 Like going to seminars, conferences and meetings to learn new knowledge and meet like-minded people
The following questions are optional, but recommended. Please answer truthfully.