Posted by Laurence on January 30, 2000 at 18:54:14:
In Reply to: Re: A path to excellence posted by Z on January 30, 2000 at 12:17:13:
> > 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
answer : the personalities cited above are not necessarily healthy, health was'nt among Riso criteria when he picked up those names (check : a few are straight unhealthy.
And also, in order to "modellise" and rip of benefit from a good exemple, one needs either autobiographical elements or interviews, spoken or writen.