Instinct Zones

In David’s theory of the instincts, each instinct has three zones. These zones run in a cycle, but they also get “stuck” the way our instinct stacking does.

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Joseph Simone
Trifix Nicknames

As an addendum to my post on Trifix Overlay theory, I wanted to write a list of my favourite trifix nicknames. Some of these are from BHE’s trifix roast, some of them I’ve created, and some are derived from Katherine Fauvre’s original Tritype work.

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Joseph Simone
Trifix Overlay + Layers

What is Trifix overlay? Essentially this is just a synergistic way of looking at the fixes on each wing. Up to now, in terms of trifix synergy, we didn’t look at wings together.

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Joseph Simone
Trifix Cheat Sheet

Determining your full Trifix can often take years of study and introspection. However, once you do, the richness of information revealed is revelatory. Enneagrammer coach, Emeka Okorafor, put together a cheat sheet as a starting point to considering what your trifix might be.

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Joseph Simone
The Many Contradictions of Type 6

Type 6 is notoriously difficult for people to catch as an energy in themselves. The main reason is because the structure of the type is built around contradictions, or opposite poles. If one is only ego-conscious of one side of this pole, they might conceptualize their type based on that one extreme.

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Joseph Simone
Type 9 + Rodney Collin + David Gray

The problem that 9s have in typing themselves is itself a confusion generator for the collective -- 9s are incidentally redefining certain enneagram types (to fit themselves), but are completely unaware (unseeing) that they're doing this.

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Joseph Simone
Misconceptions about Type 4

There is a lot of mistyping at 4 in the enneagram community, mostly due to misinterpretation of texts. This large-scale mistyping has even caused a feedback loop where the texts about 4 are describing mistyped people. Here are some of the most common misconceptions about type 4

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Joseph Simone