The author finds the Enneagram personality framework useful for understanding human behavior, despite acknowledging its theoretical basis as potentially "fake." Initially skeptical, their perspective shifted after reading Michael Valentine Smith's work and applying the Enneagram to personal behavioral change. The Enneagram posits that individuals have an "essence" which becomes obscured by a "core wound" and subsequent coping mechanisms, forming a personality type. The author argues that the core Enneagram theory, focusing on types and wings, offers a predictive model and a valuable language for discussing subjective experiences and habitual behaviors. AI
RANK_REASON The article is an opinion piece by an individual discussing the utility of a psychological framework.
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