Final Case: Put It All Together

Where you are: Module 7 · Lesson 29 of 30 · about 80 minutes (reading 10, video 0, practice 35, Final Application Check and reflection 35). This lesson teaches nothing new. It brings the whole course together in three separate parts: a connected case you work and score yourself, twenty questions on new situations, and a private look back at where you started. You can do it in two sittings.

Model case file (one good answer; other answers can meet the same criteria)

Task 1. Facts: "Wednesday 09:30. My manager asked for a figure by 12:00. I said yes at once. Not known: how long the figure takes, and what else I have before noon." Body, feeling, thought: "A tight chest. Uneasy. 'If I say no he will think I cannot cope', a prediction, not a fact." First reaction: "I said yes at once. One event, not a habit." Possible motive: "I may have been protecting how my manager sees me." Alternative reading: "I may have said yes because the figure is quick, and the tight chest was about something else. I do not know."

Task 2. "When a request arrives, I may agree at once or take on more, to protect how I am seen." Fits: E1, E2 and Fact D. Contrary event: E3, where I declined calmly and felt fine. What would change my mind: finding that I say yes at once whoever asks and whatever I expect, or that I decline calmly most of the time. Next observation: for the next two requests, note who asks, what I expect and what I do. ("Not sure. Four events, no shared cause yet" also meets the criterion.)

Task 3. Facts: "Fahad has been quiet in the last three meetings. Not known: why, and what he thinks of the meetings." Question: "How do you see our meetings?" The label does not appear in the facts or the question.

Task 4. Outcome: the dashboard, finished by Thursday at 12:00. Authority: Hana chooses the layout and may not change the source data. Check-in: Wednesday at 13:00; it stays. Early signs: Hana tells me the same day if she cannot open a file or may miss the deadline. Response to a material new risk: the lock is a new fact; the file opens 2 hours after the check-in and 21 hours before the deadline. On Tuesday, the same day, Maha asks: "A notice says the source file is locked until Wednesday at 15:00. Did you see it? How long do you need once it opens? What do you need from me?" If the wait matters, she steps in only on what Hana cannot do: she asks whoever runs the system whether the lock can be lifted earlier, as a question, not a promise. Pull: "I may be protecting the deadline and how my manager sees my team." Taking it back with no new reason: "Starting the layout myself on Tuesday afternoon before I have asked Hana anything." (Moving the check-in to after 15:00 is also valid.)

Task 5. "I do not say what Level Fahad, Hana or anyone is. One incident cannot place anyone: the authors give no way to tell from one event how much is a Level, mood or circumstance. A quiet meeting, a locked file or a hard day is not a measure of a person." Open or narrowed, Fact D: "At 09:30, when my manager asked, I said yes at once and my chest was tight. For that minute I was narrowed: one thought and one option. It says nothing fixed about me."

Task 6 (a model for a fictional learner; yours will differ). Repeat: "the question 'what new fact have I learned?' before I touch handed-over work; the five-line plan for every handover; the pull tag in my record." First checkpoint: "day 30, which is a Monday if day 1 is a Sunday; about 20 minutes to re-read and count." Recording: "'no change' and 'worse' are results, written with the facts: minutes I spent on the work myself, messages I sent; no verdict about myself." Stop or review rule: "I stop the step if it puts safety or a customer promise at risk, and I review early if two weeks pass with no comparable event."

Key. Retry 1: there is no new fact, so the work stays with Hana and the check-in stays; silence is unknown, and one short question ("Anything you need from me before Wednesday?") is fine, as is no contact. Taking it back with no new reason would be "opening the dashboard file on Tuesday, just to be safe". Retry 2: facts include "three hours needed, one free: two hours short". Open-or-narrowed: "pressed, but I paused to check my hours, so for that minute I was open." One request cannot place the Finance colleague, or Maha, on any Level. To Finance: "I cannot finish the list by 12:00 today. I can send it by 12:00 tomorrow, or earlier if you tell me which part matters most."

Answers explained

1. C. Line 1 can be checked, so it is a fact; line 2 guesses a motive, so it is a story; line 3 says what Anwar is, so it is a label. A, B and D swap the kinds. Revisit Lesson 3.
2. A. The behaviour is stated as a fact and the motive as a possibility. B turns the motive into a label. C makes the fact uncertain and the motive "probable". D says one event "proves" a motive. Revisit Lesson 7.
3. D. The course is for self-use only, and tasks are planned on real criteria. A and B still use types to decide work. C types people secretly, which is worse. Revisit Lesson 1.
4. B. "Not sure" is a complete answer, and a next observation keeps it useful. A and C type her from behaviour. D treats "not sure" as failure; it is not. Revisit Lesson 13.
5. B. One moment, with a time and what she did. A spans years and settings, so it is about a pattern. C is a mood with a cause. D claims a Level, which the course never does. Revisit Lesson 14.
6. D. The sources give no instrument, score or timescale for placing anyone on a Level. A and C still place him, now or later. B keeps a Level but hides it. Revisit Lesson 15.
7. A. These are the Enneagram Institute's own names. B swaps the Institute's terms onto Chestnut and Paes, who use self-preservation, social and sexual, which they also call one-to-one. C is not what Riso and Hudson say. D drops attribution, which the course always keeps. Revisit Lesson 18.
8. C. An order among the three instincts is a sequence question, an authors' claim. A is about the nine patterns, B about a type combined with one instinct, D about the Levels. Revisit Lesson 19.
9. D. Planning one small action and recording its effect is the test step. A is noticing what happened, B is naming a possible motive, C comes after the result. Revisit Lesson 20.
10. C. With no new fact, the work stays with its owner and the check-in stays. B takes it back without a reason. A crowds the owner. D treats silence as proof of progress. Revisit Lesson 22.
11. A. It names the situation, the behaviour and its impact, then invites her view. C and D are labels with no situation. B defends the speaker's image. Revisit Lesson 23.
12. B. He names his reaction privately, asks one test question and states his constraint. A argues instead of asking. C promises what his manager decides. D turns one remark into a personality claim. Revisit Lesson 24.
13. A. It declines the time, offers a real date inside his authority and states the trade-off. B over-gives. C blames the team. D is unclear and keeps the problem. Revisit Lesson 25.
14. D. Neutral, factual and open, with no type word. A names a feeling and is yes or no. B assumes a habit and asks for a defence. C uses type language. Revisit Lesson 27.
15. C. The record is private, with no names or confidential facts. A and B add types and Levels about colleagues, which the course never allows. D shares private notes about people. Revisit Lesson 6.
16. B. The answer shows the guess was wrong, so the step changes, and she asks the owner without promising. A repeats the old plan. C protects the guess. D adds a new label. Revisit Lesson 27.
17. A. One moment, in plain words, with no score and no Level. B names a Level. C turns a moment into an identity. D adds a score. Revisit Lesson 16.
18. D. Something heavier calls for suitable support beyond the course; nobody is diagnosed. A and B treat it as an ordinary pattern or system issue. C tries to place her on a Level. Revisit Lesson 17.
19. B. "No change" is a valid result, recorded with the counts. A is a verdict on the self. C throws away a valid result. D changes the result although the sign she fixed stayed the same. Revisit Lesson 21 and Lesson 28.
20. C. The same written criteria for everyone, recorded where others can see them. A rewards silence, B uses a type, D uses liking. Revisit Lesson 26.