hey guys it's Hillary welcome back to my channel Enneagram and coaching today we are going to be
discussing the enneagram versus myers-briggs when we think about personality like typologies that
are out there these are the two that most people relate to and talk about i get so many comments
from you guys about okay i know your enneagram type but what is your myers-briggs and i would
say you know people do use both systems you know so like today we're going to talk about well what
what do they have in common and what makes them different which one is the better one which one
is the right one it's gonna depend on what you're looking for and that's gonna depend on which one
you would most need in your life and some people they use both systems some people only use one i
mostly just use the enneagram why i'm certified in the enneagram i understand it thoroughly and
i really believe the enneagram helps us change helps us move forward helps us look at some great
things of our personality but then some not so great things of our personality and i really
believe we need to be balanced in that because that's the only way change and growth happens
and so i teach the ideogram but then you have the myers-briggs and my son ethan he's probably more
into the myers-briggs than the enneagram the myers briggs to him he's a type 5 on the enneagram and
he knew his myers-briggs before he knew his enneagram number and i think he understood the
myers-briggs a little bit better and so like i said some people use both some people know
this is my enneagram type this is my myers-briggs type um some people only use one some people don't
even use either right so which is totally okay but that's what we're gonna be discussing today so
let's get started so the myers-briggs this is how you perceive the world how you judge the world how
the mind functions the behaviors this this one really dials in on that and then the enneagram
this is the why of your personality right and enneagram never changes and i actually have a
question for you guys i read i think i read some conflicting things on the myers-briggs
can your myers-briggs change um let me know in the comments below what you think and i'm
not certified in the myers-briggs so i honestly don't know that answer but i do know the enneagram
your enneagram type the one that you most use the dominant one that type never changes and that is
the why behind what you do the myers-briggs is about cognitive function which is how you receive
and process information and make decisions the enneagram is about why you do what you do what
are your motives what are you running towards and so it actually it's definitely on the
why um and so internal the heart and when i say the heart it's the basic fears basic desires core
longings core weaknesses it really focuses on that and if you learn about those four things you'll
usually know which type you are in the enneagram the enneagram mainly focuses on the three centers
of intelligence which is the heart the head and the gut one of these is your go-to emotion so
the head is thinking you know and then the emotion is fear the heart is feeling and the go-to emotion
is shame and then the gut is instinct so you have that gut instinct and the go-to emotion is anger
and you have types two three and four in the heart triad types five six and seven in the thinking
triad and then eight nine and one in the gut triad and so the enneagram really kind of focuses there
and then the myers-briggs they are it's about thinking it's logic it's pros it's cons i've
actually heard that the myers-briggs can help you find like the best career you know it could help
you make choices in your life the one the career that would be best for your myers-briggs type
myers-briggs helps us to know how someone prefers to interact with the world and the enneagram
is like i said it's what you're running towards it's what you're running from
for example i'm a type 9 on the enneagram which is the peacemaker my childhood was filled with lots
of chaotic-ness lots of fighting um around me and it was a very chaotic world that i grew up in so i
tried to blend in not assert myself not to be seen or heard that was my personality it was like oh i
you know withdrew into myself and my coping mechanism was numbing out um and for me it
was books and so i love to read and i would just get lost in these books and that's it that's my
coping mechanism that i developed as a child and that is um what the nine does that's the nine the
peacemaker that's one of their coping mechanisms is numbing out and trying to find your inner peace
in here versus when your whole world is kind of chaotic and that is uh one way that i developed as
a child to cope the Enneagram deals with childhood wounds right kind of like what i just described
and the goal of the Enneagram is to make sure that you're not taking those same coping
mechanisms into your adult life because you're not a child anymore and so it helps you see those
coping mechanisms and change and the enneagram helps you with knowing what drives you what are
your core fears what are your core desires you know and that is what's driving you and i would
say that myers-briggs it does a really good job at exposing our weaknesses it does but the difference
is the enneagram it'll expose our false self which is that coping strategy we used as a child and
you know we've taken it to adulthood so now this enamel is going to help you expose that and kind
of deal with that and make better choices and not use what you developed as a child
so myers-briggs they have four sets of choices so the first choice is an e and an i which just means
extrovert introvert the next choice is s and n which means sensing and intuition the third
choice is t and f and the t is thinking and the f is feeling and the last choice is a j or p
which is judging or perceiving and so usually your you know a combination of each of those two
in the four rows does that make sense and then the enneagram is nine types you got the peacemaker i'm
sorry you have the perfectionist type one type two the helper type three the achiever type four the
individualist type five the observer type six the loyalist type seven the enthusiast type eight the
challenger and type nine the peacemaker and so that one you know starts with those nine types
versus uh the myers-briggs like i said it has those four um choices and then two letters in
each choice and what those mean and honestly it's way deeper than what i'm explaining right now but
i'm just trying to simplify this is a very let's simplify as much as we can to understand the basic
concept of the myers-briggs and the enneagram that's all this this is supposed to be doing right
now so in the end i would say both typologies are very useful in helping you understand different
parts of yourself they both can go hand in hand you can use one you can use the other you could
use both i think they're both very useful and i think anything we're doing um for self
awareness and self-improvement and to you know not ignore the hard parts or the bad parts of our own
personality and expose them and deal with them and make better choices is always good growth is
the goal let's keep growing and becoming our best self right and so i guess to wrap this whole thing
up because i wanted to keep this video just short and sweet today what are your thoughts do you know
your myers-briggs do you know your enneagram do you like both of them do you only prefer one of
them what are your guys's thoughts i would say i know way more about the enneagram but i like
i said earlier i could see value in both because i think sometimes certain personalities understand
the myers-briggs a little bit better or understand the enneagram a little bit better but that's all i
have for you guys today i hope that this helped you just kind of understand just a little bit
more about the enneagram and the myers-briggs and what they're both for and i probably taught
a little bit more about the enneagram i've certified in that and i do understand that a
little bit better than the myers-briggs but like i said i can see value in both and if you want
to know my myers-briggs ask me in the comments below and i'll let you know and don't forget to
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media at @hillary_mccaskey_coaching and that's all i have today guys so until next time bye guys