I'll go ahead and steal the questions form the thread beneath mine:
1. Establish a "baseline mood"--when you're at home with nothing to do, where are you at mentally and emotionally? What do you notice in yourself? (Note, this is not a mood you inhabit "frequently", but your psychological baseline).
Left to my own devices, I'll brainstorm, read, gain knowledge to brainstorm with, rinse & repeat, if I am lucky I'll remember to write it down, presumably for the benefit of future alien archaeologists.
4. You're not good at everything--
a. What personality traits and/or ways of being are impossible for you to adopt?
b. What are qualities you'd like to have, but can't seem to develop?
I don't believe in either of those statements:
You aren't good at everything at any given time, but you can be throughout a lifetime.
a & b - The question isn't what trait you can't develop, only how extreme and unlikely are the circumstances in which you would.
5. Why have you left friends and other relationships in the past and/or why have they left you?
Most relationships just fade when lacking the context for the interaction - more often then not I am the first to march on with my life, sometimes settling as a loner, sometimes creating new social circles around me as I move along (perhaps I take the ability to make new social circles for granted). For anyone I was once close too, there is still an outline of a bridge, almost everyone I know can contact me, and I do have friends who I'll see around every few years for a cup of coffee or a glass of beer. More often then not, with lesser contacts I will end up nodding as someone I don't have the slightest memory of brings up shared experiences I can barely remember. I have had a close relationship in which the other determined the best way to keep their sense of identity is to make sure those who have been inflicted on conflicting aspects of it are disposed of and to pretend they don't exist, and eventually did the same to me. I don't think I could ever do that, the bluntness of the emotional and intellectual dishonesty appalls me. In the same time, I have little to no trouble setting boundaries for those I dislike, in fact making sure they know I dislike them and why will usually do the trick.
6. Which types do you identify with most?
a. How do you relate to these types?
b. How do you NOT relate to them?
1. I have a sense of "what needs to be said", it isn't perfectionist in practice, but demands shedding light on the imperfections.
2. I usually don't really care, but I've had periods in my life in which I've become codependent on specific people closest to me.
3. I don't particularly care for title, but I am conscious of the underlining social dynamics: the best titles don't need to be said.
4. Self exploration is never ending, but I am not envious of people who form identities - identities are fragile - the search is not.
5. I prefer learning from experiences rather then at a distance, but I am into life long learning (as is most of gen Y).
6. I don't identify, but you could argue that my rebellious relationship with authority is the counter phobic version.
7. I am not much of a party animal and never really get bored, but maybe my brain is hyperactive so I won't ever get bored?
8. Power is a mean, not an end, and can be binding all in itself, but when you need it's good to know that it's there.
9. I don't avoid conflicts themselves, but I take out it's sting - I create dynamics where the conflicts can be constructive.
8. They claim enneagram type is a hidden love need. What are your attitudes toward finding love?
Dig myself into a trench with my penis sticking out of the sand and wait until someone decides to sit on it.
10. Determine your ego ideal--the way you strive to be and want others to perceive you. (Note, you may be consciously aware of failing at this, and you will be hard on yourself if you do. If someone else tells you you're NOT this way, it may make you feel hurt, violated, or angry.)
Not really - I am fully aware that we are all agents within a larger system attempting to describe it within our subjective limits, and i judge criticism in terms of the perception of the person expressing it to unfold another set of elements of the reality in which both the other's and my own perception emerges from. I don't dismiss it or immediately agree with it, but take it to be what they experience, and start form there.
There are exceptions, when the criticism is not of me persay, but of my role in personal relationships. Discovering I am not what I am for someone for whom I opened myself to give a damn about what I am for... that can be hurtful as fuck.
p.s.
Does anyone know the original source for those? there are missing questions in the numbering.
