Posted by RoTtEn ApPlE on May 30, 2001 at 16:43:56:
In Reply to: Re: Conscious motivation posted by Riv on May 30, 2001 at 15:11:19:
True, but don't forget that they haven't learned the details of the Ennearam. We who do understand our motivation aren't special from those who aren't aware of personality typing. Before I discovered Enneagram and MBTI, I was just a lost soul on a Florida street corner watching Flamingos stroll by. Come to think of it, I still--------
So we who know our motivation also try to know others motivation. Now I think that the Flamingos are 3 or 7 packages looking to impress or for good times and I as a 5 think I'll go to the book store for a better package and know why it never worked with Flamingos. But more importantly for this reply, if we can read other types then we can call them as we see them.
[You’re losing my attention… seems like a lot of writing in order to say nothing.]
> Personality may or may not be taught in infancy. We all are born with tendencies. What pushes out a prime motivation? It might be genes or it may be conditioning. What makes you an artist? Genes or some favorable stimulus that may look unrelated but actually started you off as an infant?
> Maybe some nice music playing on a beautiful day the first time that crayons were dropped off in your crib?
In your crib? Nah. You probably would have eaten the crayons. But maybe when you were about 3 years old?
[Um… that was your paragraph, Riv… not mine. As I’m sure we all know (because it’s bleedingly simple and obvious) these things occur because there was a predisposition and then the environment/circumstances were present to facilitate development of that predisposition.]
I thought you were a 4. Sorry.
[Hahahaha… Ya know, in all the time I’ve posted on these boards this is the first time I’ve been mistaken for a 4. Especially funny since I start many of my posts like ‘Not a 4 but…’ or ‘I’m so glad I’m a 5!’… I’m a 5w4, IXTP. I’m lazy. You’re a space cadet.]