I've got to say though, that I keep answering these from the perspective of 'how I behaved in my last workplace' rather than, say, how I behave in my personal life, with family abs friends, &c.
Doing these tests, my mind goes first to my 'external workplace persona' rather than my inner life, for some reason; but then isn't enneagram behavioural and not cognitive anyway?
Putting too much english in it
When you have a moment take it again, clear your mind and relax, empty your work persona and then read each with what you perceive fits best in
any situation...how you believe you are. I say this because we often put on a personality
mask with certian aspects of life and individuals we feel or think we need to be guarded with for whatever reason. We seldom get to our
core persona, the I or self.
Similar to MBTI, we take the test answering how we want to be instead of how we believe we to be. And, depending on conditioning, upbringing, sense of internal values, our moral compass, or lack of
, life events, stage of life, etc., we may derive different answers repetively each time we test ourselves.
I'm a believer that all of these sort of tests are in constant flux throughout life and we should revisit them every couple years, even 2x's a year perhaps, just to see if there are fixed attributes of functions, or with more knowledge do they change. (?)
I'll use myself as an example...there is truth in my being the so called "rare" INFJ, but under pressure or stress, especially in a work environment I morf into a focused ENTJ. Going from the comforting mom-type of here, let me fluff your pillow, comfy? Good, have some thing to drink, here's a cookie...to laser-like analytics of this, this, and that stays, this and this need to go, no questions? Good, out the door and I'm on to the next thing. LOL
Fluctuations in mindset and theory
(with the exception of being triggered). Logically and spiritually impossible at this point, but it probably does sort of make it easier to see myself critically, from afar.
Except that I am a core 4. I hear it's quite a rare tritype.
