tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post2090149053778209347..comments2023-08-09T11:43:13.629-04:00Comments on COFFEE RANDOMS: personality surveysSarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539133854675715353noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post-26523773887367746262008-12-10T11:12:00.000-05:002008-12-10T11:12:00.000-05:00Erin, I had never heard that we are "most ourselve...Erin, I had never heard that we are "most ourselves" in adolesence, but it makes a lot of sense to me intuitively that as adolescents we would test most truly. The Meyers-Briggs questions, as I read them, are really written and aimed toward what the enneagram guys would call average levels of health. As we mature and integrate, the stark black and white of those inidicators is less and less appealing and I double-think my answers a lot more. I don't think that I'm any less INTJ/5 than I was as an adolescent . . . but I do think, by God's grace that I'm a healthier one . . . I don't think it's necessarily adapting to come to the recognition that there are other valid personality types out there . . . that they have valuable strengths and things to bring to the table.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16539133854675715353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post-61712826597748035702008-12-10T09:57:00.000-05:002008-12-10T09:57:00.000-05:00I have to agree with you Sara that for me, learnin...I have to agree with you Sara that for me, learning about my types made all the difference in the world in my life. Suddenly I wasn't broken anymore, when I discovered that I am who I am because I'm made that way. And everything made sense....because I've gone through most of my life thinking I was broken and just not normal...I'm an INFP/4 but for most of my life sinca adolescence I was certain that there was something really wrong with me and so I would test as an ISTJ/9 because I was trying so hard to not be who I was. It's only in the last two years or so I have begun to get back in touch with my 4.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if I read this or what...but doesn't it say somewhere that the type we are in adolescence is most true to who we really are? That as we grow in to adulthood we adapt more and more?Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post-44782915113009779732008-12-10T06:06:00.000-05:002008-12-10T06:06:00.000-05:00I went looking to see if I had written a book revi...I went looking to see if I had written a book review of the Enneagram, and I had nearly three years ago! <BR/><BR/>Here's the <A HREF="http://abooklook.blogspot.com/2006/01/enneagram.html" REL="nofollow">link</A>.Susan Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07673626395112361592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post-90645788148979742292008-12-09T22:39:00.000-05:002008-12-09T22:39:00.000-05:00Hmm . . . interesting theory. :) I think that if...Hmm . . . interesting theory. :) I think that if Jesus displayed all nine types it had more to do with his being God . . . I think that in our humanity that each of us can only show facets of God, but as a body we reflect God's image--Christ is indeed the head of the body and it is completely beyond any of us hands or feet or eyes or ears to transform ourself into an alternate head. :)<BR/><BR/>But it reminds me of a book I saw one time lining up the gospels to each of the four major Meyers Briggs types. Matthew was SJ, Mark SP, Luke NF and John NT. The book typed Peter as an ESFP and John as an INTJ and had some interesting things to say about the fact that Jesus's two closest friends were exact opposites, and then went on to talk about how to use this all in prayer. (My kind husband ran a search and informs me that it is "Sacred Pathways" by Gary Thomas. Both it and the enneagram book you recommend are now on my Amazon wish list.)<BR/><BR/>Wholeness, of course, is a worthy goal . . . but I think that it might very well be one of those things that cannot be necessarily achieved by direct pursuit. That as we seek to follow Jesus, we may achieve wholeness, but that if we try to determine for ourselves how we "ought" to be whole and set about constructing our own pathways, we'll probably just make things worseSarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16539133854675715353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372822982648717620.post-46652764877772949292008-12-09T21:58:00.000-05:002008-12-09T21:58:00.000-05:00You mention that these secular psychologists don't...You mention that these secular psychologists don't have much use for Jesus...<BR/><BR/>In the original Enneagram book by M. Beesing, R. Nogosek and P. O'Leary they certainly did, devoting a chapter to Jesus. They explain why Jesus had all nine personality types but because he was without sin none of them became extreme in Him, like they do in us. Meaning Jesus displayed wholeness and the book encourages people to grow towards the wholeness Jesus' displayed.Susan Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07673626395112361592noreply@blogger.com