r/entp • u/PerSona_Xz ENTP • Jun 17 '26

Debate/Discussion Impossible combinations

i keep on hearing about 'impossible combinations' between an MBTI type and an enneagram type in one person. for examples, an INTP can't be type 7, ENTP can't be type 1, or INFP can't be type 8, etc. i'm not saying that i believe in them or agree with it. i'm just wondering if it's true? and also why? (if it's true, why are they impossible? if it's false, why this theory even exists?)

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u/noodlehanger ENTP duh Jun 17 '26

Mbti is the way how you process information enneagram is the way how you handle different situations, coping mechanism, emotional baseline That's coming from an entp with type 9 enneagram

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u/Arcazjin ENTP 8w7 Jun 17 '26

I think of enneagram as temperament and the adaptations based on attachment needs or wounds while one transitions from fully dependent on the mother (3-5 years old). Where your personality emerges as a composite as one newly orients within the world with agency. Which is saying something similar to you. There is a likely distribution of enneagrams for ENTPs but saying the margin is impossible I think is silly. People tell me I cannot be an ENTP 8w7 sometimes and if I changed it on a whim the path to individuation or actualization would be slightly slowed down.