interesting K9 subgraph there... yeah, i'm bored shitless.
K9?
Never come across that before, though I've come across other schemes that try and classify people into nice, neat little boxes. My general view is that people are not that simple, and the deeper you delve, the less any such scheme will actually prove to be useful or accurate.
The enneagram is quite old. About two thousand years. I've read a few books on it and the good ones detail that the classifications 'meld' or 'bleed' into each other; by that, it means you show traits of one major area (for example, I'm a 3) and that makes up 80% or so, and the rest is a mish mash of the others.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think its faultless; more something to give yourself a guide on who you are and what makes you tick.
When I was younger, I thought the sun shone out of my own arse. I was 10 foot tall and bulletproof.
Then I had an illness which sent me blind for a bit. I'm still blind in one eye, but some of my vision has recovered.
Anyway, that sort of shit will change your perspective. Things that were important... Aren't so important anymore and when you have ongoing eye dominance issues that affect things like depth perception and even your ability to catch a ball, it kind of forces you to admit your fallibility.
Wow, that's an amazing story. Totally agree - things like that are life changing.
This. I have a heap of friends who are psych majors and think this sort of shit is the be all and end all. I wish people were that simple, but they aren't.
Totally agree - over reliance is destructive. But they do assist, if used wisely, in helping you learn more about yourself and what makes you tick / get upset / is earth shattering.
