If you already know and enter your primary Enneagram type at the end of the IVQ, you will receive brief bonus content about the Instinctual Variants for your specific type. The Instincts may be explored separately from Enneagram type, and knowledge of your primary type does not affect your IVQ score. The IVQ results are emailed to you in a PDF format and include your scores for all Three Instincts, as well as general information about the Instinctual Variants. The IVQ takes about 15 minutes to complete. The test will then determine your "Instinctual Stack," or the Three Instincts ordered from your most developed Instinct to your least developed Instinct. In each set of statements, you are to choose one statement that is most like you and another which is least like you. It is a forced-choice psychological test with 37 sets of 3 statements each. Threes keep driving themselves to excel until they burn themselves out and become more detached and passive when they go to Nine.The Instinctual Variant Questionnaire (IVQ v2.0), is the first online test to measure our three basic instinctual intelligences: the Self-preservation, Social, and Sexual (Attraction) Instincts. Twos keep trying to do nice things for others until they lose their patience and blow up when they go to Eight. Threes tend to be more composed, and to have difficulty accessing their feelings. Twos are openly sentimental and emote easily. Threes are extremely goal-driven, and feel they are not living up to their potential if they are not the best at what they do. While Twos can be ambitious, they feel uncomfortable going after their goals directly, feeling that to do so would be too selfish. Twos and Threes are different in several other key areas. And while Threes enjoy the attention, and want relationships, they actually fear intimacy, becoming more uneasy as the relationship becomes closer. Threes get others to like them by developing the excellence of their own "package." Threes seldom lavish attention on the other rather, they are trying to be so outstanding and irresistible that the other will want to focus attention on them. Twos are primarily motivated by the desire to please the other as a way of creating closeness or intimacy–to enhance relationship. ("How are you feeling this afternoon? You look sad.") Twos give the other person lots of appreciative attention in the hopes of being valued as a friend or intimate by the other. Basically, Twos attempt to get others to like them by doing good things for them–by focusing on the other person. Therefore, it is important to distinguish how these two types "seduce" attention from others. But clearly, all types can be seductive in their own way, and Threes can be very seductive indeed. Confusion sometimes arises, for instance, because the word "seductive" has often been applied to type Two. With the 2w3 and the 3w2, however, personal charm and the desire to be liked and to please others can make these types more difficult to distinguish. A Two with a One-wing is unlikely to be mistyped as a Three, and a Three with a Four-wing is unlikely to be mistaken for a Two. Here again, confusion about wing versus dominant type is likely to be the problem.
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