"One more thing..."

A quick word of advice before you read your Enneagram test results:

Sorry to disappoint, but my short, free test does not give you a single Enneagram type that you can run and tell your friends. 🏃💨

Instead, it gives you your three strongest types based on your answers.

🧐 Your mission now is to read through the descriptions of these three types, then figure out which one is the strongest type for you.

It's totally normal to find more than one type in yourself. But for now, just focus on figuring out which Enneagram type is the "most" like you.

If you understand and accept your mission, scroll down for your results...

If you're having a hard time figuring it out, I recommend that you take the Full SEED test.

Type 3

Type 2

Type 5

Type 3

Strengths

  • Motivation: Threes help others feel inspired and find the motivation to keep moving toward their goals.
  • Focus: Threes support others to eliminate distractions and concentrate their attention only on what’s most important.
  • Confidence: Threes feel highly capable and are ready for any challenge, giving them a sense that success is inevitable.
  • Achievement: Threes keep their eyes on the prize and easily overcome obstacles, becoming highly accomplished.
  • Presentation: Not only do they get the job done, but Threes look great doing it. They present a winning image to the world.
  • Perseverance: Obstacles are only temporary speed bumps for Threes as they stay the course and keep moving towards their goal.
  • Efficiency: No time is wasted as Threes pursue the shortest, most efficient path to their goal.

Achilles Heel

  • The Achilles Heel for Type 3 is the fear of being seen as a failure, and having no value. When Type Threes succumb to their Achilles Heel, their strengths become the following weaknesses.

Weaknesses

  • Workaholism: Threes can exhaust themselves burning too bright, for too long. They can make their work a greater priority over important relationships, and even their own feelings.
  • Image Consciousness: Threes may be highly focused on their image and how they are perceived by others, getting lost in vanity. Looking successful becomes more important than *being* successful.
  • Inauthenticity: When image becomes more important than reality, Threes can succumb to the temptation to deceive others. Instead of being authentic, they present a larger-than-life persona to the world.
  • Emotional Suppression: When Threes become hyper-focused on their work, their feelings get pushed aside. They lose touch with themselves and their own hearts. They can then become quite cold and unfeeling.
  • Opportunism: When success is pursued at all costs, Threes can cast aside ethics, as well as the feelings of others. This alienates others and the people around a Three begin to lose trust in them.
Learn more in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 3

Type 2

Strengths

  • Helpfulness: Twos are amazing helpers that are able to tune-in to your specific needs and provide the exact kind of help needed to move forward.
  • Sensitivity: Twos are deeply in touch with the feelings of those close to them. This allows Twos to anticipate the needs of their loved ones.
  • Connection: Twos are great at connecting and forming bonds with others.
  • Intimacy: Twos are able to get to know people intimately, helping others feel seen and understood.
  • Selflessness: Twos can put others before themselves, focusing on making sure everyone’s needs are getting met.
  • Generosity: Twos provide others with a great deal of time, energy and attention.
  • Positivity: Twos often express a positive attitude that’s uplifting to those around them.

Achilles Heel

  • The Achilles Heel for Type 2 is the fear that they're not worthy of love. When Type Twos succumb to their Achilles Heel, their strengths become the following weaknesses.

Weaknesses

  • Manipulation: Twos can manipulate others using complaints and guilt when others aren’t returning the love that they expect to receive.
  • Neediness: Everyone has needs, but Twos can become overly needy in their search for appreciation, attention and gratitude.
  • Insincerity: Twos can display feelings that seem overly loving and saccharine sweet, leading others to mistrust their sincerity.
  • People-pleasing: In the effort to be seen as worthy of love, Twos can say things that others want to hear and lose themselves in pleasing people.
  • Possessiveness: Because Twos put so much time and energy into others, they become possessive of those people.
  • Intrusiveness: In the search for ways they can help, Twos can become overly intrusive in the lives of those close to them.
  • Self-Sacrifice: The downside of being selfless is that Twos often end up sacrificing themselves and denying their own needs.
  • Resentment: When Twos don’t communicate their needs, their loved ones naturally are unable to meet those needs. The Two can become resentful when they’re giving so much but it seems like nobody cares about their needs.
Learn more in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 2

Type 5

Strengths

  • Curiosity: People in a Five’s presence get more-in-touch naturally with the joy of discovery and learning.
  • Clarity: When a Five brings clarity to their thoughts, others also experience clearer thinking.
  • Understanding: The power of a Five's penetrable mind allows themselves to rapidly and effortlessly grasp complex subjects.
  • Simplification: Taking highly complicated subjects and simplifying them, Fives make challenging ideas less complicated, and more simplified. Thus making the ideas more accessible for others to understand.
  • Expertise: Fives will master any subject they set their mind to and become an indispensable resource to others.
  • Objectivity: While observing the truth behind issues without personal or emotional bias, Fives help others become more objective as well.
  • Perceptivity & Insight: Fives discover the hidden meaning that others miss, which in turn, helps them see more deeply into a subject or situation – or themselves.
  • Focus: The ability to become laser-like to a subject in Fives attention as the rest of the world falls into the periphery.
  • Ingenuity: Fives solve problems creatively and in novel ways to accomplish things that flood their minds.

Achilles Heel

  • The Achilles Heel for Type 5 is the fear of being overwhelmed and unprepared for life. When Type Fives succumb to their Achilles Heel, their strengths become the following weaknesses.

Weaknesses

  • Overwhelm: When Fives lose touch with their bodies, they lose touch with their vitality. Without their life force, they feel depleted. The demands of everyday life then become overwhelming.
  • Emotional Detachment: To avoid the overwhelm of their emotions, Five disconnect from their emotions and lose touch with their hearts.
  • Social Isolation: When feeling overwhelmed by the needs and demands of others, Five feel the need to escape. Distance brings temporary peace, but also leads to isolation from people they care about.
  • Lost in Thought: When Fives retreat into their heads, their minds go into the overdrive. They get lost in endless thinking, rather than taking practical action.
  • Overthinking: Their endless thinking leads Masterminds into analyzing subjects to death, getting lost in the details. They end up muddying the waters, and in effect denying themselves and others the clarity they need.
  • Stinginess: When Fives feel overwhelmed, they experience scarce inner resources. They feel like they never have enough. So they hoard their time, energy, attention and other resources.
  • Argumentativeness: To find the ultimate truth, Fives are drawn to challenging the views and ideas of others.
  • Nihilism: Fives frequently feel disconnected from others and the world around them, leading to a bleak emptiness inside and the sense that nothing really matters.
  • Arrogant: Fives can be highly intellectually arrogant, believing that their minds and their understanding are superior to that of others.
  • Minimizing Needs: Fives feel that, in order to survive, they need to be able to get by with as little as possible, leading them to deny their needs, and making them feel impoverished on the inside.
Learn more in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 5