16 Personalities & Types
Cognitive Functions
Enneagram & Core Drivers
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How the Fawn Response Uses Pleasing to Stay Safe
A colleague asks me to take on extra weekend tasks that I do not have time for, or a friend makes a subtle, unkind…
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Why the Flight Response Keeps Us Moving and Planning
I am sitting on my sofa after dinner, and the room goes quiet. There is nothing I urgently have to do. Within thirty seconds,…
Values & Self-Realization
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You Can Never Be Too Smart Or Deep To Have Friends
Why treating friendships like intellectual sparring matches creates alienation, the problem with demanding that friends be impressive, and why real connection requires unconditional acceptance.
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You Can Never Be 100% Sure of Your Personality Type
Every personality description I read told me that a programming career was a terrible idea for someone like me. I believed it for years. Here is…
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How the Fawn Response Uses Pleasing to Stay Safe
A colleague asks me to take on extra weekend tasks that I do not have time for, or a friend makes a subtle, unkind joke at…
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Why the Flight Response Keeps Us Moving and Planning
I am sitting on my sofa after dinner, and the room goes quiet. There is nothing I urgently have to do. Within thirty seconds, a distinct…
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How the Fight Response Protects Against Vulnerability
A client tells me my design draft looks amateur, or my project manager interrupts our weekly team meeting to claim my progress is behind schedule. Instantly,…
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Why We Freeze When Emotions Feel Overwhelming
My uncle leans across the dinner table at Christmas and asks why I have not found a steady job yet. My brain goes completely blank. My…
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Pourquoi la colère et la passion sont les deux faces d’un même signal corporel
Un homme pousse son chariot de courses juste devant le mien à la caisse du supermarché, ou un collègue présente mes diapositives de projet en réunion…
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How Anxiety and Excitement Are the Same Physical Sensation
I am standing backstage right before I give a talk, or I am sitting at my kitchen table before a difficult phone call. My pulse jumps…
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How Shame and Love Share the Same Physical Response
I am having dinner with my partner and a close friend, and I make a clumsy mistake. I knock a water glass across the table, or…
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Seuls les humains peuvent être véritablement originaux
Pourquoi l’intelligence artificielle devrait nous inciter à approfondir notre art plutôt qu’à nous en détourner, la différence entre l’imitation algorithmique et l’expérience vécue, et à quoi…
The Age of Self-Realization
An exploration of what it means to live in alignment with your true values. In a world full of external noise and identity traps, this book is about overcoming internal conflict, understanding your cognitive patterns, and finding the courage to grow into who you are.