WORST!*Nature (W!9N) Basic personality types of the WORST!Kind

 Everyone shares some commonality with each of the W!9 but there is a dominant type that stands out. That dominant trait is known as WORST! Nature (W!9N). Each of us emerges from childhood with one dominating W!9 personality trait, with inborn temperament and other pre-natal factors being the main determinants of our type. 

 

Identifying Your W!9N Type

As you think about your personality, which of the following nine roles fits you best most of the time? Or, to put it differently, if you were to describe yourself in a few words, which of the following word clusters would come closest?

 

Type One (I) is principled, focused, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.

Strong inner critic/ Self Sabotage	Hard working/ Driven
Frustrated by imperfection	Confident/ Precise/ Driven
High sometimes unattainable expectations of self and others	Perfectionist
Suppressor of emotions
Perfectionists/ Reluctant to show grace to self and others

 

Type Two (II) is generous, affectionate, people-pleasing, and possessive.

Resists own needs & desires/ Reluctant to ask for help/ Emotional -action through feelings	Observers/ Scan and reads the emotions of the world around them
Needs to be helpful- wanted or not/ tends to overwhelm themselves	Rescuers Anticipates the needs of others
Fears Rejection/ has a need to be needed/ Challenging to be cared for	Caretakers/ Peacekeepers/ Sharing/Engaging
Leans towards emotions of grief, sadness, and shame	Studious

 

 

 

 

 

Type Three (III) is adaptable, excelling, ambitious, and image-conscious.

 

 

 

 

 

Fear of Failure/ Has to appear successful to others	The Performer/ Go-getters/ Achievers
Need for affirmation, encouragement, & attention from the world around them/ Need for Worth- Social & professional roles	Incredibly gifted/ Practical world changers/ Hard working
Narcissistic	Legacy builders
Trouble with work-life balance/ Self sabotages- Health, relationships, family
Unauthentic/ Mendacious/ Shapeshifters/ Deceptive

 

 

 

Type Four (IV) is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental.

Self-conscious/ Awkward/ Uncooperative/ Stubborn	Creative
Overly emotional/ Feelings of brokenness/ A therapist’s dream	Emotional
Self Critical/ Emotion mining/ Overthinkers	Tends towards self-reflection
Constantly comparing self to others/ cares too much of other people’s opinions	Aspires towards authenticity
Recluse/ outsider/ Loner
Has extreme highs and lows/ Tendency to get dark easily

 

 

Type Five (V) is perceptive, innovative, mysterious, and isolated.

 

Cold/ Unemotional/ Hoards thoughts & Energy/ Hard to read	Misunderstood
Overthinkers/ Hates mundane conversation/ Short attention span	Hard Workers/ Researchers/ observers/ Worker bees
Paralysis of analysis/ High anxiety/ Greed for knowledge & information	Problem Solvers/ Curious/ Cerebral
Distracted/ Hyper active/ Annoyed by chit-chat
Inconvenienced by emotions

 

 

 

 

 

Type Six (VI) is charming, responsible, apprehensive, and suspicious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debilitating Anxiety/ Suspicious/Skeptical/ Fear of being manipulated	Problem Solvers/Produces solutions to real world issues
Need for Loyalty/ Always looking for support and safety from both people and environment	Compassionate/Loyal/ Courageous/ Excellent Gatherers of people & groups
Expects disaster/ Incessantly cycles through WORST! Case scenarios	Keeps a crisis action plan
Overthinkers/ Self Sabotage/ Asks a million questions/ Ambivalent	Remarkable Faith/imagines the positives
Anxious/ Concerned/ Worrisome

 

 

Type Seven (VII) - is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and sporadic.

 

Hates Boredom/Avoids being Bored/Jokes often-sometimes too much/ Constantly looking for playtime	Fun to be around/ Spontaneous
Addiction to Anything- not necessarily substance abuse/ Insatiable/Swaps addictions regularly	Fun Seekers
Always Consuming Never Digesting/ Shallow, Impulsive, Scattered, Gluttonous	Thinkers
Fears Limitation	Problem Solvers
Easily Distracted/ Constantly moving/ Difficulty staying in the present moment	JAK of all Trades
Avoids Dealing with Emotional Pain	Avoid effecting others negatively

 

 

 

Type Eight (VIII) is self-confident, decisive, deliberate, and quarrelsome.

 

Lust/ Consumption- knowledge and influence/ Full on or Dead out	Lives life to its fullest
Forces will/ Despises feeling vulnerable/ Controlling/ For me or Against me/ Desires intimacy/respect	Conquerors/ Action oriented problem solvers
Action driven- Shoot 1st type/ 0-100 real quick/ finds love through confrontation	Protectors/ Defenders
Exhausted by inactivity/ Attracted to the weak & broken/ Likes to feel empowered	Helpful/ believes in Servitude
Sensitive BS meter/ Hard to read	Great poker face
Open expressions of anger

 

 

 

Type Nine (IX) is receptive, supportive, complacent, and submissive

 

Insecure/ Seeks love & validation/ Relies on affirmation	Warm/Relationship advocates
Unsure of themselves- who they are/ Difficulty tuning in to oneself/ Fear of being great	Magnanimous/Selfless
Fear of losing peace & harmony with others/ Puts others need far above their own	Peacemakers/ Forgiving/ Gracious
Gives more value to others voices rather than their own	Harmonious to energies around them
Tendency to fear conflict/ Unconfident/ anxiety of being exposed	Avoids conflict
Slothful to own priorities & feelings

 

 

 Subsequently, this inborn orientation largely determines

• How we adapt to our environment
• Handle authority
• Create our sense of self
• How we fit in to the world as individuals

Several more points can be made about W!9N itself.

1. People do not change from one basic personality type to another.
2. WORST!9 descriptions are unisex, and apply equally to males and females. No type is inherently masculine or feminine.
3. Not everything in the description of your basic type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly among the healthy, average, and unhealthy traits that make up your W!9N.
4. The WORST!NGRAM uses Roman Numerals to designate each of the types because numbers are value neutral— they imply the whole range of attitudes and behaviors of each type without specifying anything either positive or negative. Unlike the labels used in psychiatry, numbers provide an unbiased, shorthand way of indicating a lot about a person without being judgmental.
5. The numerical ranking of the types is not significant. A larger number is no better than a smaller number; it is not better to be a Nine than a Two because nine is a bigger number.
6. No W!9N type is inherently better or worse than any other. While all the W!9N types have unique assets and liabilities, some types are often considered to be more desirable than others in any given culture or group.
7. Not everyone is happy with their particular W!9N, some even feel handicapped by it… But as you study the philosophy and continue to learn each W!9 type, you will see how they all come with unique capacities as well as different limitations.

Thus, the overall orientation of our W!9N reflects the totality of a myriad of factors (i.e. genetics upbringing, relationships, etc.…) that influenced its development. Although unavoidable, Our W!9N types have the potential to be more esteemed in certain societies rather than others, this is derived from the qualities that a particular society rewards, and does not warrant any superiority of value in those W!9N types. The ideal is to become your best self, not to imitate the assets of another type, and to surround yourself with those that compliment and enhance that type.

 

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