I agree that no typing system will ever completely explain the diversity of human minds, nor is this an argument I would make. I think I disagree about it being not very predictive, but would rather say that the tool is so hard to use that it becomes non-predictive in the hands of most users, and so the Enneagram ends up looking like it doesn’t work to many people because it’s so hard for most people to understand how to use it that they misuse it and this leads to confusion. This is especially not helped by the fact that lots of Enneagram people try to use the Enneagram to prove too much, and I wish such personality theory-of-everything formulations of it didn’t exist or at least weren’t so popular, as they make the Enneagram into something more like astrology than astronomy.
That said, the pointer I mean to leave in this post (though I admit I don’t provide an in-depth argument for my point, because it’s basically a claim about what value I found in learning the Enneagram) is that it can break down the typical mind fallacy by learning it, and the only real test of that claim is to try learning it for yourself and see if you less suffer typical mind bias.
I agree that no typing system will ever completely explain the diversity of human minds, nor is this an argument I would make. I think I disagree about it being not very predictive, but would rather say that the tool is so hard to use that it becomes non-predictive in the hands of most users, and so the Enneagram ends up looking like it doesn’t work to many people because it’s so hard for most people to understand how to use it that they misuse it and this leads to confusion. This is especially not helped by the fact that lots of Enneagram people try to use the Enneagram to prove too much, and I wish such personality theory-of-everything formulations of it didn’t exist or at least weren’t so popular, as they make the Enneagram into something more like astrology than astronomy.
That said, the pointer I mean to leave in this post (though I admit I don’t provide an in-depth argument for my point, because it’s basically a claim about what value I found in learning the Enneagram) is that it can break down the typical mind fallacy by learning it, and the only real test of that claim is to try learning it for yourself and see if you less suffer typical mind bias.