I’m in the midst of an end-of-year countdown featuring my top-5 blog posts of the year! If you missed #5, click over here. If you missed #4, click over there. And if you missed #3 . . .
PSYCHE, you didn’t miss it. Because here it is!
It’s from April 15, and it’s called “I’m an Enneagram Type 4: An Introduction.”
This past spring I wrote a four-part series on the Enneagram, a personality system that splits humanity into nine distinct types, each interconnected with all the other types. A dear friend introduced me to the concept, and I found the self-discovery process so fascinating.
This series focused on my own particular Enneagram type (Type 4, “The Individualist”). Someday, I’d like to do another blogging series on the Enneagram at large. But for now, there is this Type 4 introduction.
Check out the Enneagram excerpt below, or click over for the continuation. And stay tuned these last couple days of 2014 for my top-two posts of the year!
The first time I heard of Enneagram, I thought it was spelled “Anyogram.” I thought it was a board game. I figured the objective was to make up “any” word you could along with a faux-definition for it.
Alas, Enneagram is quite different from Anyogram, the board game currently not sweeping the nation. Enneagram is actually a personality model that defines the human race into nine particular “types.” I’ve become such a sucker for personality stuff, so I quickly set to determining which of the nine types I was. Even before taking the short test, though, I knew.
I’m an Enneagram Type 4: “The Individualist.” I am sensitive and introspective and expressive and dramatic and self-absorbed and temperamental.
I am good, and I am not-so-good. “I am both,” as Prince Charming says. Today’s post is the first in a brief series that will delve into both halves of my Type 4 being, the appealing and the awful.
You can read the rest here. And check back tomorrow for my #2 blog post of 2014!
