Best Time to Type?

[Boo]

I'll be 17 in less than a month, and I haven't been on the forums for a long time. But the enneagram always manages to pop back into my life. Anyway, I feel like I'm growing into myself which made me wonder: I'm still fairly young, so when would it be an appropriate time to type yourself? When does your personality crystalize? Thank you

 

[Glycerine]

When you're the least stressed and enjoying life the most. When you don't think you are trying to rationalise your behavior to fit into a certain box.

 

[animenagai]

When you're the least stressed and enjoying life the most. When you don't think you are trying to rationalise your behavior to fit into a certain box.

I dunno about that, I think given the nature of the enneagram, the best time may be when you're having a hissy fit... or at least, right after you've calmed down from a hissy fit, one that you have quite commonly and is almost irrelevant to external factors. The enneagram identifies a core insecurity within us, so in my mind, the best time to find yur e-type is when you're most aware of your insecurities.

 

[Glycerine]

Possibly but stress also clouds the judgment on how one truly is sometimes. Not stressed and enjoying life can typically help us figure what we are about.

 

[Hazashin]

When you're the least stressed and enjoying life the most. When you don't think you are trying to rationalise your behavior to fit into a certain box.

You know, I wonder if the reason why some people want to fit into a box so much is that they feel secure. I know that, as a probable 6, I feel more secure knowing what my type is, so that I can handle myself better because I know what the root of the problem usually is.

 

[SilkRoad]

I think that typing/personality tests could give you some good ideas when younger, but overall you'll have a more accurate idea if you look closely at what type you might be only after you're at least 20, or even 25. People just change so so much from 17-25.

 

[Speed Gavroche]

I think our enneatype is fixed at 5/7 years old. That's a right time to be typed.

 

[RaptorWizard]

7 because by then your mind has developed but has not yet been conditioned by society.