Speed Gavroche
Whisky Old & Women Young
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- EsTP
- Enneagram
- 6w7
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
No of course not, I'm just reacting against the temptation to cover every possible variation in behaviour and motivation, since it's needless and tells you nothing about anyone. The enneagram is a self-help tool, first and foremost, and should be treated as such - it is not meant to be an absolute catalogue of human behaviour. I think that the wings and instinctual stackings are arbitrary, and frankly do more harm than good since they obfuscate how perceptive the enneagram can be.
Enneagram is a map of the human condition from the very beginning. The instincts are an observable natural phenomenon, and the wing truly represent the two sides of each type. The type 5w4 exist, as well as the type 5w6, and it's the same forevery types. It's not arbitrary, it has'nt be decided by someone, but observed and discovered. The enneagram is just perceptive about your acquired personality, not about what you can be when you put that acquired personality away. So it makes sense to study what wings and instincts makles you act on autopilot, your bestial nature and your emotional coping strategy to deaal with it. Instintual typology help you also to type people with accuracy, and not confuse someone who is Sp with a 5, someone who is Sx with a 4 or a 7, someone who is So with a 3 etc.
If you neglect wing and insitnct, you miss the point of enenagram and you necessarly misuse it or in an imperfect way.
Your motivations are constantly churning away inside you, regardless of how you choose to deal with them - you don't need the enneagram to tell you that.
Of course since motivations have noting to do with the enneatype. Te enneatyp is a settle of propositions wich you perceive the world through. The instinctual variant is the big sector of life where we are instinctively specialised.
Have you seen my link? It proves you wrong.