Psychology Behavior Personality Adaptation Re: personality type
From: Wayne Tyson (landrestcox.net)
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
Am I to understand that egocentrism is universal? If so, is it inevitable? If it is inevitable and universal, is it more adaptive than maladaptive?

WT


----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah" <welcome [at] olympus.net>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ personality type



My experience (20+ years into RoseWind in Port Townsend WA) is that
any system of typing will surface the essential concept that there ARE
different types. Whether you say it's because Joe's a Three, or an
Initiator, a kinetic learner, or an Aries Rising, the lesson is that
we have diverse gifts. The best thing for community is to recognize
that (a) these differences are real, and (b) they are all potentially
gifts to the community.

I resist most forms of categorization and multiple choice questions as
imperfect (which I think makes me a One....), so when we gave over
some retreat time to Enneagram training I was kind of gritting my
teeth. But then I thought the trainer did something brilliant. We'd
already decided what type we were. Then we gathered by type. The
assignment for the groups was first to identify which OTHER type most
tried our patience/ made us nuts sometimes. Each group quickly agreed
that a particular other group was that. We did that quickly and with
some smugness. THEN the trainer said, "Now describe what value those
people bring to the group." Hmmm! That took a bit of reflection.

Then in the whole group we reported out. "We like to plunge right
ahead with projects. We appreciate that we don't have to think about
details like whether it's ok with our insurance coverage, because the
(Threes) will always think of that and check it out. " "We have lots
of good ideas, but without the jump-in-and-do-it (Sevens, or whatever)
things wouldn't really get done." That was really good consciousness
raising, that even while it annoyed us sometimes that others weren't
like us, we acknowledged that each brought value to the group.

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
www.rosewind.org to see photos of 2 homes for sale ($215K and $385K)
with still shirt-sleeve late summer/autumn weather, vegetables in the
garden, and lots of dahlias for my daughter's upcoming marriage (being
Port Townsend, nobody is surprised it's a potluck!)
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