If we want to deeply understand enneatype 1, we must be clear about what their vital motivation is: the desire to feel good and fair.
To satisfy this desire, he uses as a strategy the effort to be perfect, in the sense of being “correct,” “moral,” and “ethical.”
Let’s see. Enneatype 1s are often seen as people who have a rather rigid way of seeing things in the world. But this doesn’t mean that they have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and will have a heart attack if they see a spelling mistake or a slightly crooked painting. Although there is indeed a certain tendency towards correction in 1s, these obsessive and extreme attitudes do not automatically turn a person into a One.
What really identifies Enneatype 1 is their motivation to seek their ideal of perfection, and this is generally manifested in their moral perfectionism , that is, being a good, fair person, so that no one can tell them that they are wrong, that they are not right, that they are bad, selfish or incorrect.
No. Even though they share the same Enneatype, each Type 1 person will have their own beliefs about what is moral or not. Being “perfect,” “good,” “moral,” “fair,” and “ethical” will be totally subjective, so we can find Ones with completely different values and both believe that they are right and in the truth.
In metaphorical terms, even if two people with Enneatype 1 have the same color of photochromic lenses through which they “tint reality with the color 1,” each of them will have different eyes with which to evaluate, bias and filter what they see.
Let’s take for example two people 1 with opposing ideas in the political field:
One may be a socialist and the other a conservative. And each of them will believe that they are right, that their political ideology is the right one and will defend their principles as correct.
Yes, you can find 1s who are very rigid in their approach. But not all 1s are like that. When we find balanced Ones, who bring out the best features of their personality type, they can become people with a strong sense of right and wrong. They tend to be very reliable, upright and consistent. They strive to improve things and make everything around them work properly.
Balanced 1s are also usually well-organized, precise and meticulous people (especially 1s of the conservation subtype), who try to maintain high values. They create order in their personal and professional life. They manage to get things done well, in a precise, rational and efficient manner. They are people who have a lot of common sense and are objective, realistic and noble.
Furthermore, they are generally people you can fully trust, because they try to be consistent with what they say and what they do and they are truthful, since they cannot stand lies. When Ones are calm, they can really give you excellent advice, since they draw fairly objective and sensible conclusions; and when they get the best out of their arrow to 7, they open up to new points of view and end up being much more tolerant than they seem.
But of course, one side of the coin does not exist without the other. Despite the great talents of Enneatype 1 – objectivity and common sense – they lose these qualities when they get angry or fall victim to their excessive emotions. Under stressful conditions, they begin to obsess about doing things “their way”, believing that they are right and that their way of thinking and acting is the “perfect” one, the convenient one, the best one, the most ethical and moral one.
When they let out their anger, they really become verbal machine guns , firing criticisms at anyone who crosses their path. This is due to that internal feeling of frustration that they have when they think that things are not done the way they think they should be done.
But what happens is that, after a while, some people, when they calm down and relax again, connect with that humble feeling of acceptance of reality. What in Stoicism is called ” amor fati ” – the love of facts, of reality: ” Things are as they are and that’s it. I would like it to be otherwise, but that’s the way they are . “
It all depends on the person’s level of balance, of course. For example, my father is Enneatype 1, and although as a child I thought he was very rigid about what was right and what was wrong, what was correct and what was incorrect, paradoxically, he ended up being a very tolerant man. Although my father was very firm in channeling our school and university education well, later he supported my sister and me in our decisions; and he let us do what we wanted because he saw that it was what made us truly happy.
For my father, the important thing was to become good people, responsible, with good moral values, hard-working and dignified as a way to be happy and live with enthusiasm. And these are some of the great values that the more mature enneatype 1s like my father Ángel Peña bring to our lives.
In short, the negative side of Enneatype 1 is that they can become rigid, inflexible, critical, moody and intolerant, yes… however, on the other hand they can also become a person with high moral integrity, tolerance and objectivity.
Well, in many ways: helping you realize your blind spots, develop your talents, clarify your values and virtues, reevaluate your rigid belief system, educate self-control on issues such as anger and criticism, help you balance the different areas of your life through personal development work with the arrows (the internal lines of the enneagram that connect you with the 7 and the 4)… and a long etcetera.
Personal development work is the most important, but first a proper diagnosis and analysis of what is happening to the person with enneatype 1 must be done (you also have to know their subtype and their individual temperamental and morphological characteristics).
You can do this work of self-knowledge and personal development in our
«Expert Program in Enneagram». At the AutoGnosis school we teach how to correctly identify the 9 enneatypes and 27 subtypes, in addition to offering practical keys to change aimed at each type of personality.
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