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icepixieBecause 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 hilariousand 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!
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
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!
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Date: 2011-06-29 03:11 am (UTC)Other type 4s: House M.D., J.D. Salinger, Martha Graham, and Ingmar Bergman.
As with all tests like this (or horoscopes) anyone can really identify with any of the personality types because they are vague and personality is so multifaceted.
Interesting test, indeed. Thanks for posting about it.
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Date: 2011-06-29 05:05 am (UTC)Mine gets smarty-pants hermit with crippling anxiety, so I know the feeling. The tests don't exactly paint the nicest picture of any of these types.
As with all tests like this (or horoscopes) anyone can really identify with any of the personality types because they are vague and personality is so multifaceted.
Yeah. I think it's better than a horoscope, and there are certainly some that fit better than others, but they're all of a wide enough scope to encompass a lot of people.