🧩 Philosophy 4h ago · Gordon Seidoh Worley

The Enneagram is a Useful Fake Framework

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I’ve been getting into the Enneagram lately (recent posts). I like it because it provides a useful framework, even if a fake one, for making sense of the mental processes that generate wide swaths of human behavior, and I have several more posts planned about it. But I wasn’t always excited about the Enneagram, and in fact spent many years bouncing off it, finding its model opaque and personality tests based on it random.What changed my mind and made it useful was, first, reading, Michael Valent

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