Enneagram Type 3

Motto: “I am what I accomplish.”

Deep inside you lives the fear of being worth nothing beyond what you can accomplish, and the longing to be valued, wanted, and accepted. Early on you learned to identify what your family and your circle counted as success and to throw yourself fully into standing out, never willing to be just one more face in the crowd. Although you belong to the feeling triad, you rarely come across as sensitive: you learned to box your emotions away to move forward and to replace them with reasoning and action. The great risk is mistaking your image of success for your true identity and losing touch with what your heart actually wants. Your path of growth runs through letting the mask fall and recognizing that your essential gift is authenticity: discovering that you have worth simply because you exist, not because of what you present to others.