My closest friend/lover/perpetual ex is an ISTP 8w5 <--- I know that's "impossible" but he is.
So, yeah, it's possible.
After doing more research and taking every enneagram test I could find, I am definitely an 8 with a 7 wing. Once I scored 7w8 but other than that, the 8 is almost always very strong. I don't relate at all to the type 5 descriptions. Neither does the other ISTP I know for that matter. 8 sounds really accurate on the other hand. 8w7 was even called the "Maverick" on one site.
I just took the enneagram test and I scored very strongly as an 8. I don't know much about the enneagram. Just wondering if it is common for an ISTP to score as an 8.
To Ezra-
Are you suggesting I mistyped. I have typed as an ESTP. ISTP description fits better because I am fairly reserved rather than expressive. It is possible though that I am ENTJ. My brother typed as ENTJ and we are pretty much two of a kind. I just thought ISTP's and ENTJ's could look a lot alike.
You could just be a 5 that is very integrated?
This just shows you don't know much about the enneagram... 5's integrate into type 8. So an integrated 5 would naturally relate well to the 8.
Probably!
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I agree that 9w8 resonates very well with the "live and let live" and "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" kind of approach of ISTPs. I'm also an advocate of these principles but compared to my passive 7 active 5 flavour in my first two decades today I have almost nothing to do with 5 at the expense of being a 7w8 who can stand up for himself if necessary instead of being silent or tame. I got fed up with being used as an idiot tool/pet at my workplace and looked for better solutions. From a silent techie I became the mixture of an adventurer and entrepreneur/businessman. I'm a living example that in 5-10 years one can become "the oppostite" of him/herself.I did'nt know ISTPs could be 9w1, I believed evey 9 ISTPs were 9w8 actually.