6 or a 7? What I'm Learning About Self-Awareness at College | a conversation with Payge Wicks

Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types Bonus Episode 6-7

Two years ago, Payge Wicks sat down with her mom right after graduating high school, a 17-year-old still figuring out who she was. Today, she's just finished her junior year in college, studying psychology in Phoenix, 18 hours from home, and she has something real to say about what it actually looks like to be a Seven in the most formative years of your life.

In this conversation, Amy and Payge pick up the thread they started two years ago, including the great Six vs. Seven question that Payge has been quietly wrestling with ever since and explore what personality awareness, faith, and genuine formation actually look like when you're living in a dorm, navigating roommates, building independence, and figuring out who God made you to be without your family right down the hall.

This is a different kind of Seven conversation. Not an expert looking back from a distance, but a Seven in the thick of becoming, with enough self-awareness to name what's actually happening.

In this conversation:

• The 6 vs. 7 question what made Payge wonder, and what living independently finally clarified
• How FOMO shows up in college in ways you might not expect, including why staying connected to home is genuinely a Seven thing
• The psychology of staying: how a Seven commits to something long-term without feeling trapped
• What Payge has discovered about God in the last two years that she couldn't access at 17
• Roommate dynamics through a Seven lens and how community can actually push a Seven toward growth
• Self-awareness as a practical tool: why knowing your type matters when your day feels inexplicably awful
• What Payge would tell every incoming college student and every parent watching their kid walk across that stage