Originally Posted by
FreelancePoliceman
As I said, I don't really think tritypes are useful. I don't think the Enneagram itself, actually, provides any notable insights in itself, though people might make something from it in the sense they make something from astrology or Tarot. That is, you can present a number of flaws people tend to be inclined towards, but I've never read any explanations for why that number is 9, or why those flaws in particular. Still, by describing these kinds of flaws people can make something from it and work toward avoiding them. Tritypes just seem a way of making the Enneagram an identity -- "I'm not someone who has only this flaw, but this flaw and this flaw as well!" Everything the Enneagram describes is I think relatable to some degree to most everyone, and when people search for a tritype they're just finding smaller and smaller pieces to relate to, when what they ought to be doing is recognizing the unhealthy patterns the Enneagram describes (at least the old-school Enneagram) and avoiding them all.
But if I were to give a 'tritype' it would be 5, 9, and...4, I guess, though there's a wing system, and I don't understand what the difference is supposed to be between a 4 wing and 4 as part of a tritype.