Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird is another healthy One: reliable, principled, and takes the moral high ground with humility.Īuthors who exemplify One traits: George Bernard Shaw, Twyla Tharp, Henry David Thoreau, Noam Chomsky.

Colonel Brandon in Sense & Sensibility portrays a healthy One (who, unlike Javert, feels driven to do the right thing-although an argument could be made for Type Four).

Inspector Javert in Les Miserables exemplifies an unhealthy One-rigid, bound by law, driven to do things right, as opposed to doing the right thing.

Ones naturally seek to gain love by doing things perfectly. Unhealthy ones are likely to be critical, resentful, inflexible, and repress their anger until they explode. Healthy Ones are conscientious, discerning, and strive to make things better in appropriate ways. Ones have high standards for themselves and others and a strong sense of right and wrong. The type descriptions below are adapted from my book Reading People. Ian’s book The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery with his co-writer Suzanne Stabile is-you guessed it-all about the Enneagram. But this list is a good beginning: these characters offer clues to the nature of our own lives.įor further exploration, Ian and I both wrote books all about personality: In my book Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything, I discuss seven of my favorite personality frameworks, the difference they’ve made in my own life, and how you can put them to work in yours. And it’s even harder to type actual humans, because no one can truly know your Enneagram type but you.

It’s not easy to type fictional characters, because the text usually provides incomplete information. Seeing which characters embody the various types helps you better understand the Enneagram and yourself. When you’re trying to pin down your Enneagram type, it’s helpful to see what the types look like in action-in real (or fictional) lives.

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