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I am number one?
When I first encountered the Ennegram eight years ago, I was told that I was probably a type two, the helper. This made sense as I like to help people and I cared a lot about what people thought of me. My type was confirmed six years ago when I took my first Enneagram profiling test. And confirmed again three years ago when I took the test once more and had a week of Enneagram training. In fact, every time I have ever taken any Enneagram test the results have indicated I was a type two. So, I, naturally, thought I was a type two, and I have applied myself to spiritual and psychological growth through the Enneagram with that understanding.
But, in recent years, as I learned about myself and the different Enneagram types, I began to have some inklings of doubt. The first was learning about the Enneagram instincts. The instincts connect with the Enneagram types to produce subtypes, but I didn’t really seem to fit any type two subtypes. Plus, my daily Enneathoughts - https://subscriptions.enneagraminstitute.com/subscribers/create – were fairly hit and miss. While I certainly had, and have, plenty of issues, I didn’t seem to have some of the key issues of most Enneagram twos.
Yet, I was still settled on my type. I know that nobody fits all of the descriptions for a type, and I assumed I was an outlier, but still a type two. However, the more I grew in self-awareness, the more the doubts and questions continued.