What are 10 surprising facts about the enneagram? Well that's what today's video is about and i
compiled my information from you guys yes i went through a lot of the comments that i get on my
youtube channel and looked for not only the most popular questions but the ones where my answer
seemed to surprise you so i compiled those all together today and that's what we're
going to be going over i have my coffee i'm all ready to go so let's go ahead and get started
okay maybe a little information about me might be helpful to you guys i'm Hillary i'm your certified
enneagram life coach and i love teaching you guys the enneagram in the simplest and easiest
way possible so i have 10 things to go through so let's go ahead and get started on the first thing
the first surprising fact about the enneagram is you are born with your type and this shocks
so many people a lot of people think that your environment and your parents and everything your
friends and everything um kind of has to do with what your dominant type is and that is not true
yes your type starts to show through as you get older but actually most of the teachers
will agree that you are born with your dominant type and the simplest way i can explain this
is think of um if you have siblings right you were born into the same household but ultimately you
guys are all not usually the same type so i know for myself i'm a type nine and i have a brother
who went through a very similar childhood and he is a type five and so that's the simplest way
for me to explain it it is it does emerge from our childhood right it starts to show in our childhood
and we learn to adopt to our circumstances but ultimately we're born this way so hopefully that
clears that up a little bit for you so let's move on to number two and that is you do have
a little bit of all the nine types in you and the way i like to explain this one is you know
when you take a test um i know there's some good tests out there truity has one um the enneagram
institute has a really good test and when you get your results you're gonna see all nine types a
percentage of all nine types right so you do have a little bit of all of them you have some of the
behaviors of all of them in you and sometimes this can trip us up because we're like wait but
i feel like i'm this type and really the simple explanation is it's why you can relate to other
types but ultimately you're only one dominant type and those motivations are what motivates you
and so that's what we're always looking for when typing um it's what motivates you it's what drives
you it's what's your why and so there's only one type that can explain that but you can
relate to other types number three this is not a new typing system but i know it feels new to you
because it just got mainstream in the last few years and i bet you most of you heard about the
enneagram through the book by ian morgan cron the road back to you that to me really made it
mainstream that got in a lot of people's hands and people started understanding themselves
a little better because they read that book in actuality it's a really old typing system they're
still trying to figure out where it actually comes from how many years it has been around
but it looks like it could have pieces of it could have been around for the last few thousand years
i think but we use it in a modern application today and so it is different in the way we use
it today but it looks like it has been around um bits and pieces of it for a long long long time
fun fact i did read that the cia uses it isn't that crazy i'm like this little teeny amazingly
awesome typing system the cia might be using so and in all honesty i think it's because it can
explain leadership styles really well and decision making styles and all of that and so yeah we can
use it in all areas of our life the workplace the home life your friendships and everywhere
it's just an amazing tool that can be used okay so number four the ranking of the types don't
matter at all and so a large number isn't better than a smaller number the order doesn't matter
the nine being at the top and going all around it doesn't really matter the only thing that actually
matters with that is i think they placed the nine at the top because it can feel like all types it
can merge with all types and so that's the reason why i believe they started with the nine up top
but other than that there's no number better or worse from each other there's no you know we can't
rank we can't go oh well i think this one's better than that one or this one's worse than that one
nope they all have unique strengths and weaknesses and just different things about
them it gives all of us things to work on things to celebrate giftings in ourselves that we really
should work on and utilize and stuff like that and so we don't rank the types at all
number five you can't actually type other people and i know this is really surprising because i
have discover you typing sessions where i come alongside you but there's the key i come alongside
you i can ask the right questions i can look for some things i can look for some behaviors
and ultimately we can uncover your type together but you're going to be the only one to truly know
your dominant type i just really believe it's hard to know somebody's true motivation so even
when we type celebrities and different things like that it's like all that can
be more fun in games because in the end we don't truly know what's motivating the person
we're just looking at the image they're presenting we're looking at their behaviors
and we know the enneagram looks at the y that's the root of getting to that dominant type so yes
you can speculate you can wonder you can ask you know different things like that and that's what i
do um but in the end i do believe the person is the one um that's gonna be able to truly
understand their why and understand why they do the things that they do and actually this
leads right into number six which is you have to be really honest with yourself to land on your
type um it's not as easy as it looks all the time the enneagram it's a great tool right but
it does uncover some uncomfortable things some hard things some things where we're like
oh that kind of hurts and i really believe in order for you to land on your dominant
type you have to be honest with yourself you have to really look at your core weakness and go oh
is that really my core weakness if it makes you kind of like cringe or go oh i don't i don't
want to be that type a lot of times that could be your type but in the end it just it uncovers some
not so fun things that i know like if you go on instagram the instagram just always
looks fun for the most part and it is and i love that and i love that aspect to it but
it also can be hard and it also it just shines a light into pieces of your heart and your soul
where you're like oh i didn't really know that was there sometimes we are unaware that it's even
there but it's so good to get it out and it's so good to be honest because honesty with ourselves
leads us to knowing our type and ultimately leads us to true freedom to be who we were
meant to be so for me the freedom that i ended up experiencing was because i took an honest look at
myself i looked at the core weakness of the nine i totally related to it right it's sloth and i
knew right away that what it wasn't necessarily laziness but it was am i really being who i was
meant to be am i confidently moving forward with my life am i really embracing what god has for
me am i really being who god meant me to be am i really going after my own dreams and desires
what i know to be true in my heart right and so for me that was really uncomfortable that was
a big wake-up call for me and that's what that core weakness does it can wake you up and for me
it woke me up and it made me realize no i'm asleep i'm allowing myself to numb out and do different
things like that and so that's why i say you have to be really honest with yourself because then
true growth will happen number seven the symbol of the enneagram right the circle the numbers
the lines everything you see means something even down to the name enneagram right india means nine
gram means diagram it's as simple as that it means a drawn figure with nine points the circle
i believe represents two things one it holds everything together
and two it means unity and wholeness right all of us together the lines they're you know they're
always going somewhere and meaning something so if you take for example the nine it is connected to
the six and it is connected to the three right and so the nine goes to three in health and in blind
spot and the nine goes to the six in stress and so those lines all mean something but it doesn't
mean what you think it means it doesn't mean like what i've heard is like oh is it a pentagram am
i saying that right pentagram no it's not that don't let that trip you up of thinking like well
let me think beyond that let me think deeper no it just it's just a circle with numbers and lines
and they all mean something they're all connected and the coolest part about it is they're always
i feel like the enneagram is always moving right you're always going somewhere whether it's you
know on your arrows your wings your lines of health all of this helps us be the best version of
ourselves number eight the enneagram can help us tremendously in our relationships whether they be
marriage relationships um spouses um your children your parenting your in-laws
just any your boss um the people you work with it really just can give us tools of compassion
and grace and understanding for each other and no we i really feel like we no longer need to take
everything so personally because a lot of what we do comes out of who we are and what our fears
are and what our desires are and different things like that a lot of times we aren't
trying to hurt each other we're trying to protect ourselves in different areas and so the enneagram
can help us with all of our relationships so in my family i'm a nine my husband's an eight and i
have two sons one's a three and one's a five right there you're like okay you guys are all different
types and yeah the enneagram has helped us in so many areas hear each other understand each other
uh listen to each other talk differently to each other all of that kind of stuff
has changed because of us understanding each other better it's just been life-changing in my
marriage and my parenting and everything like that i honestly stopped expecting people to show up and
make all their decisions just like i would this gives other people permission and freedom to just
be themselves and so that's one of the greatest things i think about the enneagram number nine
your type never changes and this is similar to number one where you are born with your type but
i still get questions saying well if i'm born this way can i change to a different type later
and the answer is no you can't you are born one type and you are that type for
all of your life but an example i would give you is yeah you might have more behaviors one day or
one week or a month or whatever where you're more of yours where your your type goes and stress
and so that number is showing up a lot more and that might be why you feel like well
i just feel like i used to be for example a four but now i totally look like a two and that's why
you're connected by a line um you will pick up the behaviors and different things like that
and you it will make you feel like another type of times but i always say go back to your course
what's motivating you what's your why what's driving you number 10 there are nine basic types
of people but when you add wings nine levels of health the arrows the stress and growth arrows the
blind spots the everything the three subtypes you get so many different combinations and so
this is why you might be a type six and your best friend might be a type six but you guys don't look
and act completely the same you actually feel very different from each other and the reason would be
maybe you're six with a five wing and there are six with a seven wing and your first instinct
is social and their first instinct is self-press and your level of health is more three to four and
their level health is more five to six right there you guys are going to look so different so that's
why i say don't get tripped up when you feel like well so-and-so can't be this type because i'm this
type and we are nothing alike don't let that trip you up because you actually can be the same type
just everything else could be different there's just so many things to consider right and so
that's all i have guys there are 10 surprising facts about the enneagram i hope you enjoyed it
i hope you learned something i hope some of these answers some questions that you've been having let
me know in the comments below um what you thought and if there's anything else that you would add
to this and so thank you so much guys for watching like i said at the beginning if you
are still struggling with your type and you'd like somebody certified to come alongside you
and help you uncover your type i offer a one hour discovering your type session with me
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