Re: A path to excellence

Posted by Z on January 30, 2000 at 12:17:13:

In Reply to: A path to excellence posted by Laurence on January 30, 2000 at 06:17:03:

> Enneagram originally was taught as a path to compassion. In order to take a little step in that direction, could any of you suggest exemples or biographies of very healthy accomplished representatives belonging to each enneatype ( at least one for each)?

Riso's "Personality Types" lists healthy examples for each type and wing. I tried to pick out familiar names. Hope this helps.

1w9: Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Thatcher
1w2: Pope John Paul II, Barbara Jordan
2w1: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi
2w3: Luciano Pavarotti, Sammy Davis, Jr.
3w2: Elvis Presley, Christopher Reeve
3w4: Bryant Gumbel, Andy Warhol
4w3: Tennessee Williams, Peter Tchaikovsky
4w5: Bob Dylan, William Blake
5w4: Friedrich Nietzsche, D. H. Lawrence
5w6: Charles Darwin, Karl Marx
6w5: Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Redford
6w7: Sally Field, Johnny Carson
7w6: John F. Kennedy, Robin Williams
7w8: Barbra Streisand, Joan Rivers
8w7: Frank Sinatra, Franklin D. Roosevelt
8w9: Charles De Gaulle, Martin Luther King, Jr.
9w8: Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite
9w1: Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart

Follow Ups:

• Healthiness is a subjective opinion. Cory [nt] 19:26:01 01/30/00 (16)
  • So they let you out of hospital then? Nt Tiggy 19:33:37 01/30/00 (15)
    • Re: So they let you out of hospital then? Nt Laurence 05:35:11 01/31/00 (14)
      • Reply to out of thread message Nt Tiggy 08:16:49 01/31/00 (13)
        • Re: Reply to out of thread message Nt Z 12:51:56 01/31/00 (12)
          • Ok, but not the Thatcher bitch! Nt Tiggy 13:28:05 01/31/00 (11)
            • Re: the Thatcher bitch! Slim 14:32:34 01/31/00 (10)
              • Yeah, so?.....NT Tiggy 17:24:08 01/31/00 (0)
              • What about Einstein? Z 17:11:10 01/31/00 (8)
                • His family life was distinctly unhealthy. NT Tiggy 17:25:34 01/31/00 (7)
                  • 'No more heroes any more' NT Tiggy 17:26:49 01/31/00 (6)
                    • You need to calm down Tiggy, get some help n/t someone 20:42:30 01/31/00 (2)
                      • Who IS this obnoxious coward? NT Tiggy 21:34:51 01/31/00 (1)
                        • Oh, come on, Tiggy, you love me! NT guess who? (tee hee) 14:16:19 02/01/00 (0)
                    • Do you have any heroes, Tiggy? NT Z 20:34:35 01/31/00 (2)
                      • No - but I like Robin Williams. NT Tiggy 20:44:11 01/31/00 (1)
                        • I love "Good Morning Vietnam." NT Z 00:02:25 02/03/00 (0)
• WHAT??!! Tiggy 19:21:07 01/30/00 (0)
• Re: A path to excellence Laurence 18:54:14 01/30/00 (0)

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