Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test...
4- the Individualist
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")
"I am unique"
Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.
How to Get Along with Me
--Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
--Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
--Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
--Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
--Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
What I Like About Being a FOUR
--my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
--my ability to establish warm connections with people
--admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
--my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
--being unique and being seen as unique by others
--having aesthetic sensibilities
--being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being a FOUR
--experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
--feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
--feeling guilty when I disappoint people
--feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
--expecting too much from myself and life
--fearing being abandoned
--obsessing over resentments
--longing for what I don't have
FOURs as Children Often
--have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
--are very sensitive
--feel that they don't fit in
--believe they are missing something that other people have
--attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
--become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
--feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
FOURs as Parents
--help their children become who they really are
--support their children's creativity and originality
--are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
--are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
--are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
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