Nabbed from the greatness that is the blog of “thank goodness you got a blog” Becca fame:
Profile Summary for the Enneagram Type One:
Healthy: Extremely principled, always want to be fair, objective, and ethical. Sense of responsibility, personal integrity, and of having a higher purpose often make them teachers and witnesses to the truth.
Average: Dissatisfied with reality, they become high-minded idealists, feeling that it is up to them to improve everything. Afraid of making a mistake. Often workaholics — “anal-compulsive,” punctual, pedantic, and fastidious. Highly critical both of self and others.
Unhealthy: Everyone else is wrong: very severe in judgments, while rationalizing own actions. Become obsessive about imperfection and the wrong-doing of others. Generally corresponds to the Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive personality disorders.
Key Motivations: Want to be right, to strive higher and improve everything, to be consistent with their ideals, to justify themselves, to be beyond criticism so as not to be condemned by anyone.
Examples: Mahatma Gandhi, Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, John Paul II, Sandra Day O’Connor, John Bradshaw, Bill Moyers, Martha Stewart, Ralph Nader, Katherine Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, George Harrison, Celene Dion, Joan Baez, George Bernard Shaw, Noam Chomsky, Michael Dukakis, Margaret Thatcher, Rudolph Guliani, Jerry Brown, Jane Curtin, Gene Siskel, William F. Buckley, Kenneth Starr, The “Church Lady” (Saturday Night Live), and “Mr. Spock” (Star Trek).
Well all righty then.
I have many books on the subject, if you’re interested. 🙂
I’ve always thought of 8 as the “reformer” though – and 1 as “the perfectionist”. *shrug* Different authors name them differently.
Fun Psych-Quizzes!
Leave it to Bonnie. Every time I start getting all caught up on everyone, her blog makes me wander off into quiz-addiction-land! THE ENTHUSIAST Enneagram Type Seven Basic Fear: Of being deprived and in pain Basic Desire: To be satisfied…