I wonder how effective Myers/Briggs or other widely used typing systems would be percieved if they solely relied on internet questionairres?

Enneagram does indeed have a simplistic literal meaning, but then so does 'Pericarditis'.

I ascertained my own type very quickly from the course papers of somebody who had been on a weekend workshop based on Palmer's work.

I then went on such a weekend workshop myself.

Most people on one of these weekends will recognize themselves in a broad type and subtype within a short time.  I've been on several since and it's amusing the amounts of each 'type' stays faily constant with certain types being conspicuously absent.

I'd recommend Helen Palmer's book:

The Enneagram
Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life

which was written back in '88 for a fairly easy introduction into the subject for anyone who was interested.

Here's an Enneagram based article on itself and other systems including DiSC

http://www.theenneagramin...enneagram1/others.html

mike_mccue


The test at one of the links you posted was described as shortened while the site offered a $10 test that was described a scientifically accurate.

The notion of "forced choice" testing seems distasteful to me at face value.

I declined to answer all the questions.

It occurs to me that there must be some sort of classification for someone who adopts my position.

Just curious.


Disc seems different, it relates that people utilize varying degrees of the 4 traits in combinations that suit their unique character.


best regards,
mike

MBTI works from that perspective, too - it helps locate you in a range of characteristics you share with others. It doesn't seek to lock you into a rigid classification that can't take into a account that people are unique, complex individuals who may be similar to one another but are definitely not identical.  There's a good summary of this on the Myers-Briggs Foundation website - http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/.

Many of these systems claim C.G. Jung's personality typologies as their basis, so it's not surprising that there are similarities.

One of my favorite variants is the True Colors system - I'm a very visual learner, and this is appealing to the way I take in information.  http://www.true-colors.com/WhatisTrueColors.html

Have fun exploring.

There's an irony for me in considering that so much of this work is based on Jung.

I read a fairly detailed biography of Jung a few years back, and in retrospect he seems to have had a very short window where he was thinking clearly about human development and after wards he spent a lot of time invoking mysticism in a search of explanation for the notion of Archetypes via the study of alchemy as a metaphor for universal law.

Apparently his heirs are very protective of his legacy and worry that if everything Dr Jung had hoped to publish ever got published that his reputation would be very different than it is when one just considers his actual clinical work.

Never the less it seems that much of the study he inspired are observations of traits that people do actually embody and so you do not have to seek universal truths or spiritual answers simply to use the knowledge to understand the mechanics of interpersonal relationships a bit better.


best regards,
mike

I suppose.

But I may just want to use the knowledge of the Enneagram to excel at poker.



best regards,
mike

mike_mccue


There's an irony for me in considering that so much of this work is based on Jung.

I read a fairly detailed biography of Jung a few years back, and in retrospect he seems to have had a very short window where he was thinking clearly about human development and after wards he spent a lot of time invoking mysticism in a search of explanation for the notion of Archetypes via the study of alchemy as a metaphor for universal law.

Apparently his heirs are very protective of his legacy and worry that if everything Dr Jung had hoped to publish ever got published that his reputation would be very different than it is when one just considers his actual clinical work.

Never the less it seems that much of the study he inspired are observations of traits that people do actually embody and so you do not have to seek universal truths or spiritual answers simply to use the knowledge to understand the mechanics of interpersonal relationships a bit better.


best regards,
mike

I think that's why Jung is so appealing to both the theologically-inclined and the not-inclined - the concepts and philosophies allow one to explore the idea of having a soul/spirit and the deeper issues that accompany it without having to subscribe to any particular system of belief. On the other side of it, they are helpful to someone like myself (a theologian who treads the  mystic path) seeking understanding of the deeper connections between God and humanity.


And... if you want to be better at poker, maybe the system will help you learn to disguise all of your tells effectively...

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