S2 EP27: The Enneagram Test - Understanding Yourself
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
What does your personality have to do with fitness? It’s important to understand that health and fitness are about more than just your workout, it’s about you as a whole person, and your personality is part of that. Understanding your personality traits – the good and the bad – can help you better understand yourself a whole person, and you can use that understanding in your quest for self-improvement. Listen in to today’s episode to hear about the Enneagram personality test and how you can use it to help better understand yourself and use it on your self-improvement journey.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Enneagram tests
- How self-awareness can help with self-improvement
- What happened when the CVG staff took Enneagram tests
- Identifying behaviors that are damaging to you
- Overviews of the Enneagram personality types
- Reacting to your personality type
- Building healthy traits and curbing unhealthy traits
- Getting perspectives from people with other personality types
- Testing high in more than one personality type
- Putting words to personality traits
- Minimizing negative behaviors
Related Links
The Enneagram Test
Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog.
Behind the scenes at CVG.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's not make an unbelievably beautiful healthy meal from scratch or order pizza. |
| 0:06.8 | Like there is an in-between there. |
| 0:08.7 | And when you can apply these things in your personality to your health and fitness and say, |
| 0:15.0 | like, I know this about myself and I'm going to maximize it or I know this about myself |
| 0:19.6 | and I'm going to try and work towards balancing |
| 0:23.3 | that out a little bit. |
| 0:27.9 | The big question is this. |
| 0:31.5 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:40.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:47.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:56.8 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | Welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:10.6 | We get a fun one this week. I know. It's good to have a fun episode. It's very fun and it's very useful as well. And we have actionable tips. You are going to apply this to your life. And if you don't think you are, you're lying to yourself because this is a life changer. I liked this one. |
| 1:29.4 | What we did. What we did was. We had heard about a personality test that was gaining some |
| 1:37.3 | popularity and being used in the workplace to help people categorize their personality and how to work best with one another. |
| 1:47.1 | And at CVG, we are constantly trying to improve literally everything about our business. |
| 1:52.1 | And one of the things that my husband is doing for his new year, knew him, |
| 1:58.1 | is he wants to really improve the way the company is operating with regards |
| 2:04.0 | to people in the company employees and how they, we can maximize their personalities. So it was |
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