Most scholars believe that a combination of your genetics and your early childhood environment determine your core personality or type. They also believe that you retain your core personality throughout your life, which leads some to consider the Enneagram inflexible or static. In actuality, other factors — such as your wing, your security point, and your stress point — create a dynamic system that describes either your ongoing growth and development toward self-actualization and unveiling your essence or your descent into dysfunction and pathological neurosis and psychosis.