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Type Three: The Performer
Personality Identification
What do I want most?
- I want to be noticed, to be admired for doing things well.
What is most important to me?
- It is important that others see me as being successful.
What is the worst thing that could happen to me?
- The worst thing that could happen to me is that I fail at something
and other people find out.
How do I see myself (on a good day)?
- I am self-confident, competitive, attractive, a winner.
Path of Peace: Three (Performer) looks to Six (Defender)
A healthy Three accepts the burden of its innate goodness and assimilates
into society, becoming committed to others like a healthy Six, becomes
sensitive to others' feelings like a healthy Four, becomes cooperative
like a healthy Nine, and selflessly generous lik a healthy Two.
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I am loyal.
[6. Defender] |
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I am loving.
[2. Caretaker] |
I am industrious.
[3. Performer] |
I am empathetic.
[4. Symbol Maker] |
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I am cooperative.
[9. Peacemaker] |
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Path of Storms: Three (Performer) looks to Nine (Peacemaker)
An unhealthy Three loses all sense of self like an unhealthy Nine, becomes
elitist ethically -- exempting itself -- like an unhealthy Four, becomes
cruel like an unhealthy Six, and develops the arrogant, manipulative selfishness
of an unhealthy Two.
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I am cruel.
[6. Defender] |
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I am manipulative.
[2. Caretaker] |
I am acting.
[3. Performer] |
I am exempt.
[4. Symbol Maker] |
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I am lost.
[9. Peacemaker] |
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A Counseling Approach
- Yes, true security is having good friends and to be loyal and honest
with them, otherwise we get lonely and scared.
- Yes, when we "join the human race" and come to accept ourselves
as ordinary human beings, we come to understand and appreciate how others
feel.
- Yes, we feel much better about ourselves when we are honest with ourselves
and others instead of taking shortcuts to success and pretending that we
are different than we really are.
- Yes, being an honest and generous person feels much better than pretending
and being selfish.
- Yes, you have great gifts and others will look up to you and try to
imitate you, so it is very important that you see success as being a hardworking,
caring, and honest person. This is what will make you a truly admirable
person.
Rev. William J. Callahan, S.J.
The Enneagram for Youth
Counselor's Manual
Loyola University Press, 1992, 156 pages
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