Quote: it's helpful when you can see that they enneagram type or the Myers-Briggs type is just a costume, a role, a suit of clothes... that there is more to you than this, that this role can change, that YOU can change.
this is not what I'm reading at all. Every desscription says that these traits are based on innate preferences, with which we are born, and can NOT be changed. If you're talking about choosing a suit, based on its fit, and not a subjective style...it "fits" because of its size and shape relative to your own, and that is something over which we have little or no control. If you are talking about "styling", well...I certainly wouldn't have chosen the one I've got, that's for sure. I would say these tendancies are more akin to a leopard's spots. There is no right or wrong number or distribution of spots. But you're unique combination might make you better suited to say...do most of your hunting at night, rather than in the daytime. As a tool, it helps to identify and leverage your strengths, and work around your weaknesses, and relate with others. Thats not to say that there can't be "growth", as no one is a pure "I" or "E" or "whatever". but a complete change? I don't think so.
