The Dilemma

In his book, The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles, author Jerome Wagner presents a list of each Enneagram style’s strengths paired with their neurotic, distorted counterparts, showing how they are versions of each other. Threes, for instance, possess a “natural organizational ability” but when distorted, they can become “overly efficient, machine-like and ultra-programmed.” Fours are “highly individual and value originality,” but when neurotic they can become “an e...

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