This can make it difficult to find a career path as a Nine who can hold their own in many circumstances, and often has a tendency to blend into others' expectations and goals. Never fear, Nines have an incredible ability to find their calling and settle into a wonderful, satisfying professional career.
Bringing everyone to the table and letting others be heard is the superpower of Type 9s, which makes them the most powerful type in the Enneagram.
Type 9s are often relaxed and optimistic about the world. They can be ambitious while also feeling content with where they are in the present moment.
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Type 9s shine as leaders when they can maintain their serene nature while also engaging in and dealing with the reality of what the team is facing. At their best, they lead with a peaceful and grounded style.
Type Nine in Brief
They want everything to go smoothly and be without conflict, but they can also tend to be complacent, simplifying problems and minimizing anything upsetting. They typically have problems with inertia and stubbornness.
Enneagram Ones are known as hard workers. They carry around a belief that they must be responsible and that requires putting work before play.
(When Nines are highly intelligent, they can be as brilliant as Fives, although their intellectual prowess is compartmentalized. They are brilliant at work but unfocused and inattentive everywhere else, whereas Fives are focused and attentive everywhere all the time.)
Deepest Fear: Nines fear being too needy and thus pushing people away. They cope with this fear by submitting to the desires and agendas of the people around them: being agreeable in order to be included.
Anger is an emotionally draining experience for Nines, who often take a while to notice that they are upset. They, therefore, don't allow themselves to experience anger too often or too intensely. Nines "tune in" to the feelings and emotions of the people around them.
Nines can have the tendency of living in their own world to avoid the problems and pain of reality, which can cause them to be disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Unhealthy Nines can become indifferent by minimizing problems affecting themselves and others.
Weaknesses of the Enneagram 9
Having difficulties confronting other people. The tendency to minimize their feelings to avoid conflict. Avoidance behaviours when they find situations upsetting. Find themselves being passive-aggressive rather than facing their problems head-on.
Beneath their peaceful facades, Nines actually have a reservoir of anger and rage they hide from themselves and others. This resentment stems from their Core Fear of being overlooked, disconnected, unstable, and at the mercy of others' needs and preferences.
Enneagram Type 9 - The Peacemaker
Stability – Though it might seem like a boring superpower, your biggest strength is creating stability in every environment you're placed in, no matter how rocky.
In general, 8s, 9s, and 1s — the body type — tend to get angry when they see injustice, and when they feel like people are trying to control them, but this is expressed in different ways.
Enneagram 7
As mentioned in my previous post, Enneagram 7s are typically not COOs, but yet they are a very common number amongst CEO types because they are the dreamers. They are quite literally the visionaries, so they have big ideas and want to go on adventures and change the world.
Many Nines are introverts, in truth. They need to be, to keep themselves insulated from a world where chaos is ever present. Even when they're social and active, a part of them are kept in reserve. They are likeable, steady, tolerant and optimistic, but don't ask a Nine about their real feelings.
They become passive-aggressive.
Passive-aggressive behavior and “negative implementation” are classic tools Type 9s use to stand their ground and yet still avoid conflict. They may agree to do something they never intend to do.
The emotional drive of type 9 is called sloth which refers to a sense of inertia or laziness particularly with regard to yourself and your priorities or agenda.
Type Eights commonly pair well with Nines.
Because they don't back away from confrontation, they can come across as forceful and overly aggressive. In an Eight-Nine partnership, Eights exude dazzling high energy and competence, which can attract Nines, who tend to merge with strong personalities.
Type Fives don't pair as well with Nines
Both types tend to go into their imaginary worlds to stay safe, making it difficult for them to connect.
The Unhealthy Enneagram One – The Criticizer
They will become punitive and condemning to anything or anyone that disagrees with their position. At their worst extreme, Ones do the very things they publicly condemn.
Sixes are one of the most anxiety-prone types of the Enneagram and tend to overreact when under stress. Identifying what triggers an overreaction as well as finding space to process their thoughts in the aftermath of a crisis is crucial for their mental health and general well-being.
Enneagram Type 2, also known as "The Giver," is often viewed as one of the nicest types due to their caring and empathetic nature. They are driven by a desire to be likable and may instinctively put the needs of others before their own.
The Enneagram Nine Child – The Rejection of Their Voice
In a family where there was frequent conflict or turmoil, they learned to “tune out” the problems and try to numb themselves to the conflict inside.