anastasiaromanova
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- Joined
- Mar 4, 2015
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- MBTI Type
- ENFP
- Enneagram
- 641
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/so
Sometimes the Internet seems like one big forum and it slips my mind that people here don't know me or the way I work with the Enneagram, or my wry 6-leading triple critical sense of humor. So I better clarify. Tritype may not be real; MBTI may not be real, the Enneagram of Personality may not be real too. And it's always good to leave open space for doubt even if only the tiniest space, in any area you delve into. Absolute certainty sucks.
But tritype comes with the package if you accept the E. of P. as almost certainly real. Each person has a type with wing within each center. True, there are people where it's not so obvious but it's very obvious with far too many people for it not to be true. While leaving always that tiny space for doubt. Therefore, not tritype may be real, but tritype may not be real is my restatement of the title of the thread. But my view, functionally and heuristically, is categorically that tritype is real. In fact, without using it, typing is often a fruitless effort. If you don't know, say, how incredibly Fourish a strong sx 9w1 with a 4 fix will be, you're likely to mistype a lot of 9s as 4s. If you don't know the effect a very strong head fix will have on a 3, you're likely to mistype a lot of 3s as head types. And so on. For instance, Kate Bush, often typed as a 4, is clearly a healthy 9 and here she is in all her glorious 9ness. Reflective Being; absolute Presence in Emptiness. Pure unembodied Embodiment: the core gut type.
The converse is also true, though. Using tritype can also convolute things--forest/trees syndrome--so it's a balancing act requiring lots of experience and care. The most important thing is when you're typing someone--whether yourself or someone you know or a celebrity 'exemplar'--to give it plenty of time and observe very carefully. With famous people, you have to do a lot of research. If you're not willing to do it, you have to be willing to accept and to state that the opinion you're offering is just a cursory impression. If you are willing to do it, there are many, many rewards. You'll even make friends with the 'exemplars' you study and they will enrich your life.
But tritype comes with the package if you accept the E. of P. as almost certainly real. Each person has a type with wing within each center. True, there are people where it's not so obvious but it's very obvious with far too many people for it not to be true. While leaving always that tiny space for doubt. Therefore, not tritype may be real, but tritype may not be real is my restatement of the title of the thread. But my view, functionally and heuristically, is categorically that tritype is real. In fact, without using it, typing is often a fruitless effort. If you don't know, say, how incredibly Fourish a strong sx 9w1 with a 4 fix will be, you're likely to mistype a lot of 9s as 4s. If you don't know the effect a very strong head fix will have on a 3, you're likely to mistype a lot of 3s as head types. And so on. For instance, Kate Bush, often typed as a 4, is clearly a healthy 9 and here she is in all her glorious 9ness. Reflective Being; absolute Presence in Emptiness. Pure unembodied Embodiment: the core gut type.
The converse is also true, though. Using tritype can also convolute things--forest/trees syndrome--so it's a balancing act requiring lots of experience and care. The most important thing is when you're typing someone--whether yourself or someone you know or a celebrity 'exemplar'--to give it plenty of time and observe very carefully. With famous people, you have to do a lot of research. If you're not willing to do it, you have to be willing to accept and to state that the opinion you're offering is just a cursory impression. If you are willing to do it, there are many, many rewards. You'll even make friends with the 'exemplars' you study and they will enrich your life.