Note:  I wrote this piece as a sidebar to the longer article, “Ego is Real,” intending it as a brief intro with a more personalized tone.  But it sort of took on a life of its own, so now I have two articles on the same topic from slightly different perspectives.  Instead of combining them, I decided to let each one stand on their own. 

For a long time, I’ve been calling for the enneagram community to let go of the “ego vs. Essence” model—that is, the idea that we hav...

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