I keep feeling like I'm talking about the Doctors

[icepixie]

Because I feel like using some time unproductively, tell me what enneagram type you are!

I'm a Type 5 (more here, here, and here), and more specifically a 5w4: in other words, observant, knowledgeable, bookish, imaginative, obsessive, stubborn, high-strung, and reclusive. NO ONE IS SURPRISED. (In fact, according to the other test on that site, I am all of that with a "self-preservation instinct," which basically means a completely unscientific internet test thinks I am the introvertiest of introverts. Again, no one is surprised.) On lists of Five-ish fictional characters, Mulder shows up a lot, which I find fairly hilarious and maybe a touch horrifying. I also get Joyce, Rilke, Buddha, Jean-Paul "Hell is other people" Sartre, Nietzsche, and several other people I'm sure took this test back in the early twentieth century or, you know the fifth century BC.

I do think these personality typing systems are sort of pointless, because really, what is sorting myself into an arbitrary box with some adjectives that are vague enough to describe a lot of people really going to do for me, but they're fun time-wasters. (I guess they're also supposed to tell you what you should improve about yourself, but hell, I already know my people skills need work, and my life would be easier if I could take a break from obsessively planning and imagining worst-case scenarios. Not gaining much self-revelation here.) Some of the longer descriptions are a bit uncanny in their accuracy, but I wonder how much of that is due to confirmation bias.

Anyway, your type and your feelings about it (you know, if you want to), go!

Comments

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Oh, interesting! I've never taken the version with "wings," actually.

I'm a 5w6 (http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/type6.php), although only off 5x4 by a few tenths of a point. (And then, with equal scores: 9w1, perfectionist peacemaker; 1x9, same but with more emphasis on the perfectionism; and 6w5, which is 5x6 with more emphasis on the craziness fear?)

I... am pretty sure that I got the 6 because I'm ~existentially ambivalent~ and All About the Anxiety, not so much because of the paranoid or "generally looking for something or someone to believe in" parts. (because, ahaha, SO MUCH NO.)

My favorite statement was "I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence." I was like, ...Wait. Some people DON'T DO THIS? :D

In conclusion, the test is very sure that I am not a 6w7 (http://mindheart.org/junction/oldcj/ep/types/6/67.html).

[icepixie]

I seem to vacillate between 5w4 and 5w6, though I tend more to the 4 side. I get some diversions into 4w5 territory. I've seen 1w9 and 9w1 pop up at the bottom of potential types, but they only half-fit. I could possibly be a really introverted 7, though. (I am really, really not a 2 or a 3, though.)

The people behind these tests seem really biased against 6. It seems to have so few positive qualities compared to the other types.

My favorite statement was "I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence." I was like, ...Wait. Some people DON'T DO THIS?

Hahaha. Yeeeeeeah, me too.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

The people behind these tests seem really biased against 6.

Right? Some of them actually warn that an "unhealthy"/maladaptive 6 or [#]x6 can turn deluded, psychotic, and then violent. Ahahaha.

I also get 9s and 1s, both of which are fairly applicable to me. And I am definitely not a 2 or an 8!

I love this kind of stuff, simplistic though it may be.

[icepixie]

Yea, at least the 5s only get suicide and schizoid personality disorder!

I feel like I could be an 8 sometimes, but that's apparently what "healthy" 5s go to, so that's not surprising. 2, though...yeah, no.

I love this kind of stuff, simplistic though it may be.

Me too. It's pointless, but somehow compelling.