Tom Condon
Learned Behavior
Often people ask whether Enneagram styles are genetic or environmental: Are we born with our personality style or is it learned in childhood?
The answer is “yes.” Our personality style seems to be determined by some combination of genetic inheritance and environmental influence. It’s clear that babies are born with distinct temperaments and geneticists estimate that about fifty percent of our psychology is innate. However, there are remarkably consistent...
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