SilkRoad
Lay the coin on my tongue
- Joined
- May 26, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INFJ
- Enneagram
- 6w5
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
Any thoughts about this famous travel writer's type? Author of The Songlines, and In Patagonia, among others.
I've just started reading his biography by Nicholas Shakespeare - brilliant.
I'd hazard a guess he was ENFP. Apparently he was magnetically attractive (to both sexes - one colleague said "that was part of his charm: he made me feel pleased with myself.") He had a huge appetite for life and experience and was a chameleon so everyone had a different idea of him.
Although his books are "non-fiction" it's well known that they are, at the least, highly embellished travel accounts. Salman Rushdie said "he didn't give a damn whether his stories were true or not; only whether they were good." He had a gift for synthesizing ideas in a way others missed.
Anyone else a fan, and thoughts on type? MBTI and/or enneagram. (Enneagram, I'd guess either counterphobic 6w7, or 7w6. Or possibly 4w3.)
I've just started reading his biography by Nicholas Shakespeare - brilliant.
I'd hazard a guess he was ENFP. Apparently he was magnetically attractive (to both sexes - one colleague said "that was part of his charm: he made me feel pleased with myself.") He had a huge appetite for life and experience and was a chameleon so everyone had a different idea of him.
Although his books are "non-fiction" it's well known that they are, at the least, highly embellished travel accounts. Salman Rushdie said "he didn't give a damn whether his stories were true or not; only whether they were good." He had a gift for synthesizing ideas in a way others missed.
Anyone else a fan, and thoughts on type? MBTI and/or enneagram. (Enneagram, I'd guess either counterphobic 6w7, or 7w6. Or possibly 4w3.)
