I’m an amateur tennis player. A fairly good amateur, I’d say. My career’s climax was winning my club tournament in 2000. (After the triumph, the decline).  

Long before knowing anything about the Enneagram, I used to guess my competitor’s personality from his attitude during a match. It’s not difficult. After ten minutes of warming up, one can tell if the other is modest, lazy, aggressive, competitive, mean, generous, malignant, precise, overconfident, absent-minded, optimistic...

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