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Point Three: The Performer
The preoccupations of Point Three include:
- Identification with achievement and performance.
- Efficiency.
- Competition and the avoidance of failure.
- The belief that love comes from what you produce, rather than for who
you are.
- Selective attention to whatever is positive. Tuning out of negatives.
- Poor access to personal feelings. Emotions are suspended while the
job gets done.
- Presentation of an image that is adjusted to gain approval. A high-profile
public persona.
- Confusion between one's real self and the characteristics that are
appropriate to one's role or job.
- A way of paying attention that is called convergent thinking, in which
a multitrack mind is focused upon a single goal.
- Intuitive adjustment of self-presentation, often to the point of believing
that the image is one's true self.
Helen Palmer
The Enneagram:
Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life
Harper & Row, 1988, 392 pages
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