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Excerpts from Enneagram Books
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Palmer -
The Pocket Enneagram
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Point Eight: The Boss
Worldview
The world is an unjust place. I defend the innocent.
What helps a Boss
- Allow others to initiate. Learn to wait and to listen before acting.
- Note that a desire to escalate the action, stir up controversy, or
polarize a conversation may be a sign of rising insecurity.
- Identify boredom or disinterest as a possible mask for vulnerable
feelings.
- Focus on the equally valid logic of other people's behavior. See the
consistency within other points of view.
- See that confrontation and physical excess can cover actual feelings.
- Note that real feelings can begin with depression. Reframe
"weaker"
feelings as a sign of progress.
- Realize that a preoccupation with justice, protection, and control
often polarizes others into being friends or foes.
- Remember to write down insights as they occur. Work against pervasive
forgetting. Review insights to combat denial.
- Learn to channel anger. Both the suppression and the expression of
anger can have negative consequences.
- Learn that compromise doesn't mean "quit."
Helen Palmer
The Pocket Enneagram:
Understanding the 9 Types of People
Harper & Row, 1988, 90 pages
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