The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge

by Beatrice Chestnut

In addition to noticing when and how often they criticize themselves, Ones need to allow for more time for pleasure and play.

If you are a One, by focusing on serenity as a goal, and honestly observing the ways that anger, criticism, and the need to judge reassert themselves, you can consciously travel the path from being driven by the unconscious activity of your anger to having more frequent experiences of living from the Virtue of serenity that is your higher state of being.

Not viewing the end goal as the most important piece of the task process, Ones can tend to procrastinate for fear of making a mistake, where Threes, in contrast, tend to want to find the fastest, most efficient path to the goal and do not place as much attention on the possibility of making a mistake.