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When personality typing becomes an obsessive distraction

I keep switching between thinking I'm a 6 and a 9 on the Enneagram and I've spent two years obsessing over it instead of actually living my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The analytical mind can use psychological frameworks to avoid the direct experience of life through endless categorization and self-analysis.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Personality frameworks — Big Five MBTI Enneagram?”

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