After conducting allot of research on what my type might be, I find myself leaning with ESFP with enneagram 8. I was wondering if anybody can give me an explanation to this personality type and if anybody can give a celebrity figure for an example..... or if you think I'm a different type, lol.
Which attitudes of yours make you think you could be a 7 ?
Which ones make you doubt about the instinctive type 8 ?
I was thinking I could be an INTJ or an ISTP many times in my life, mainly as I can isolate myself very easily...
The enneagram course I took with several teachers from different schools made me conclude I
could be type 8, type 7, or type 6 counter phobic (sx subtype). I never really knew my enneagram type. Apparently my wings are strong.
Also, we develop a second wing eventually as we grow up (around 35 generally speaking).
What I can feel is that I hate being controlled and react straight away, I always have a certain philosophy about why people are suffering and how they could have been avoiding it.
I'm a very honest person, and I fight for my independence, truths. I only trust myself. I can be very serious, critical and seem insensitive. But that's never the case underneath.
I fight for what isn't fair. I can be choleric but very much in control naturally. I am not a friend of nonsense. I like to find explanations to the chaos around me as I need to
understand my environment in the least details. I don't fear confrontation.
My social subtype is the weakest. I have always felt myself as being a sociopath (in the kind sense). I have had difficulties listening to my feelings (it can still happen under stress).
I have spent many years into denial. I'm a loner even if I love my friends and I'm faithful in friendship. I neglect and fear commitments (well I'm still working on that point actually).
I'm very precise with words.
So let's imagine I'm a 8w7 instead of a 7w8 and here you have a french celebrity figure in front of you ! :hi:
Under stress, which function do you use. Spontaneously, how do you react ? When facing suffering what do you do, tell other people ?
Which kind of joke do you make ? What for ?
Do you like to be all by yourself ? How do you spend that time alone ?
One test is for sure NOT a good reference to define your type ! Anyway I don't believe a person is purely 100 per cent from one type or another !
We got influenced by our environment, our called "wings" (which is just a new defense mechanism we use and develop to adapt/protect ourselves for/from our environment).
With more details I could give you some clues.