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).

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

I'm a 6w5, with 5w6 as a close runner-up (followed by 5w4 and 1w9 further behind). And self-preservative, of course. In other words, I'm DOOOOOOOOMED. The only thing stronger than my overwhelming hermitude is my crippling anxiety! "In the end, the house of cards can fall suddenly, leaving 5/6 in a trembling fugue of total withdrawal." (http://mindheart.org/junction/oldcj/ep/types/5/56.html) WTF!? I DO NOT LIKE THIS FORTUNE COOKIE. You know who else is a six? HITLER. (http://www.enneagram.net/type6.html)

And yet none of this makes me think the test is any less accurate.

[lilsurelybeans.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'm a type 4 (4w3) The Individualist: Identity seekers, who feel unique and different. 1w2 was a close second. I guess the description is fairly true, but it sort of paints me as a arrogant hermit with delusions of grandeur. Type 4 personalities often feel that being different is "a curse, as it so often seems to separate them from the simpler forms of happiness that others so readily seem to enjoy." I must say that I agree with that. My type's biggest vice is supposed to be envy...definitely something I shamefully struggle with.
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.