Do You Know Your Enneagram Type? I'm Type 7: The Enthusiast. Sevens are defined by their...

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I’m a 7️⃣ like you.

Type Seven Overview

We have named this personality type The Enthusiast because Sevens are enthusiastic about almost everything that catches their attention. They approach life with curiosity, optimism, and a sense of adventure, like “kids in a candy store” who look at the world in wide-eyed, rapt anticipation of all the good things they are about to experience. They are bold and vivacious, pursuing what they want in life with a cheerful determination. They have a quality best described by the Yiddish word “chutzpah”—a kind of brash “nerviness.”

Although Sevens are in the Thinking Center, this is not immediately apparent because they tend to be extremely practical and engaged in a multitude of projects at any given time. Their thinking is anticipatory: they foresee events and generate ideas “on the fly,” favoring activities that stimulate their minds—which in turn generate more things to do and think about. Sevens are not necessarily intellectual or studious by any standard definition, although they are often intelligent and can be widely read and highly verbal. Their minds move rapidly from one idea to the next, making Sevens gifted at brainstorming and synthesizing information. Sevens are exhilarated by the rush of ideas and by the pleasure of being spontaneous, preferring broad overviews and the excitement of the initial stages of the creative process to probing a single topic in depth.

Vivaci

Love this! 💙 Very befitting, Champs.

I’m also attracted to number 7. Where can I take the test, my friend?

Rutterman · 46-50, M

Very interesting. Based on what I've seen of you here, I'm not surprised you're Type 7.

I'll have to take the test and see where I come out.

QueenOfTheNerds · 41-45, F

I’ve never done this one before, and it seems very fitting.

FrozenWasteland · 61-69, M

I can see you being a 7.

I'm a 5, with a good bit of 4. No surprises there.

SweetMae · 70-79, F

I am a 9, closely followed by 7.

Magenta · F

Oh how interesting! It does seem to fit.
I may need to take the test.

SweetMae · 70-79, F

That makes you a very interesting person.

I haven't taken the test yet.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

Taking the test now....

MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F

What is that?

SmoothKnight · 51-55, M

I have no idea what that is 😅

Keeper · M

Strong 3 (8 was my next closest)

Jeephikelove · 51-55, F

Very interesting, I’m going to take it later. Thanks for sharing. 😁

SW-User

I've never heard of it before

SomeMichGuy · M

From the Wikipedia article:

While Enneagram teachings have attained some degree of popularity, they have also received criticism including accusations of being pseudoscience, subject to interpretation and difficult to test or validate scientifically, "an assessment method of no demonstrated reliability or validity".[37] In 2011 the scientific skeptic Robert Todd Carroll included the Enneagram in a list of pseudoscientific theories that "can't be tested because they are so vague and malleable that anything relevant can be shoehorned to fit the theory".[38]

A 2020 review of Enneagram empirical work found mixed results for the model's reliability and validity.[39] The study noted that the ipsative version of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (scores on one dimension decrease scores on another dimension) had troubles with validity, whereas the non-ipsative version of the test has been found to have better internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Furthermore, it was found that 87% of individuals were able to accurately predict their Enneagram type (before taking the test) by being read descriptions of each type.[39]

In a Delphi poll of 101 doctoral-level members of psychological organizations such as the American Psychological Association, the Enneagram was among five psychological treatments and tests which were rated by at least 25% of them as being discredited for personality assessment. Experts familiar with the Enneagram rated it with a mean score of 4.14 (3.37 in the first round of the study) which is approximately an equivalent to the option "probably discredited" (3 = possibly discredited, 4 = probably discredited, 5 = certainly discredited).[40]