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To determine your basic personality type, start by identifying your three highest test scores and consider your upbringing and environment. Analyze the directions of integration and disintegration related to these scores, as well as the wings associated with them. Ultimately, self-awareness is key, and you will recognize your type when you resonate with its description.

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To determine your basic personality type, start by identifying your three highest test scores and consider your upbringing and environment. Analyze the directions of integration and disintegration related to these scores, as well as the wings associated with them. Ultimately, self-awareness is key, and you will recognize your type when you resonate with its description.

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If you’re still not sure about your test scores, try the following steps:

 Identify your three highest scores—one is most probably your basic type.

 Consider your family culture, the environment you grew up in as a child—does one of
these types seem to reflect that basic orientation and perspective? If so, that is part of
you, but not necessarily your primary type.

 Look at the directions of integration (security) and disintegration (stress) related to these
three highest scores. If there are high scores in one of these directions, this is an
indication that the type related to this direction may be your basic type.

 Look at the wings related to each of your three highest scores. Often, but not always, this
will also be a high score.

 Close Calls between all nine types can be explained in a variety of ways: a lot of
spiritual/therapeutic/self-development work, a lack of self-understanding, a common
mistyping of certain types.

 Common misidentifications for all 9 types can be found here, and in our book
Understanding the Enneagram (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), Chapter 6, p. 189-244.

 To distinguish between the 9 types, see the Compatibility Combinations. For example, if
you can't decide between Type 2 and 9, click on the 2/9 combination and see which one
fits better.

 For further defining distinctions between the types, you may wish to purchase our Levels
of Development Chart #4 for $5.

Ultimately, you are the only one who can decide what your basic type is. When you read the
description of your own personality type, you will know it. You may feel chills run down your
spine, or an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach. This will be your subconscious telling you
that something is hitting home

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