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Point Six: The Devil's Advocate
The preoccupations of Point Six include:
- Procrastination of action. Thinking replaces doing.
- Issues with work and incompletion.
- Amnesia with respect to success and pleasure.
- Authority problems: either submitting to, or rebelling against, authority.
- Suspiciousness of the motives of others, especially authorities.
- Identification with underdog causes.
- Loyalty and duty to the cause, to the underdog, and to the strong leader.
- Fear of direct anger. Attribution of own anger to others.
- Skepticism and doubt.
- Paying attention by scanning the environment to look for clues that
might explain the inner sense of threat.
- An intuitive style that depends upon a powerful imagination and
single-pointed
attention, both of which are natural to the fearful mind.
Helen Palmer
The Enneagram:
Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life
Harper & Row, 1988, 392 pages
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