Tom Condon
The difference between personality functioning and malfunctioning is completely one of degree. The higher potentials of our Enneagram style include ideals, skills, sensitivities, and strengths that we deeply value and that serve us well. But when we overdo it, our best qualities warp into our worst, mutating into lower-case imitations of themselves.
There’s a story that describes this poetically. In Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, an old man is writing a book he calls “The Boo...
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