![]() This isn’t exactly true: when I quizzed my friend (and Enneagram whiz) Leigh Kramer about this analogy, she corrected me: your Enneagram type identifies your motivations: the reasons that drive everything you do. Many people say that if the MBTI highlights your strengths, the Enneagram unmasks your weaknesses. (Read about all the types and take a free MBTI test here.) But here’s the thing about MBTI: those weaknesses don’t sound so bad. Those strengths ring true for me, as do the weaknesses, as they should for anyone who’s correctly identified their type. (Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating … but only a little.) MBTI is often described as the system that brings your strengths into clear focus: when I read about my MBTI type, I feel like a very special snowflake, uniquely and wondrously made. Knowing this about myself-and what it means for my life, my work, and my relationships- has made a huge difference in my life. I’m easily persuadable and hugely empathetic. Learning my MBTI type (I’m an INFP) has helped me understand all sorts of things about myself: I’m idealistic, open-minded, and a bit scatterbrained. In a way, it is a language: I love Myers-Briggs because it gives me a system in which to think personality, a language in which to talk about it. It’s not so hard to get the hang of it, even though it sounds like a foreign language to the uninitiated. You probably recognize the MBTI types, even if you don’t know what they mean: ENFP, ISTJ, INFP, etc. (I did it wrong-answering the questions aspirationally instead of realistically-and the results confused me for years, but I was nevertheless hooked on the idea.) ![]() The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator hooked me on personality geekery when I took my first test in high school. (For better or worse, my personality type is very comfortable with ambiguity.) A common question is this: If I only have the headspace to learn about one personality paradigm, which one should it be: MBTI or the Enneagram? I haven’t posted about personality in a good long while.ĭespite my radio silence on personality (only on the blog: I find myself chatting MBTI and Enneagram over coffee all the time) I still get frequent emails on the topic.
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