Beatrice Chestnut

Things become worse, though, when one or more of these come to define too much of our lives.

Beatrice Chestnut says personality is necessary up to a point to interact safely with the world.

But, she says, it can also be the means by which we lose touch with our true selves.

This true self, she says, gets buried in the background as our false self comes to the forefront to deal with life.

Yeah.

Beatrice Chestnut would definitely be one.

She has a wonderful Enneagram podcast, Enneagram 2.0, and she does a lot of the work on the subtypes.

And so I love her because she doesn't hold back in her books.

And I just felt like, well, maybe I'm just like a really healthy four, right? Maybe it doesn't fully resonate because of just how much work I've done.

And about five years ago, I was listening to Beatrice Chestnut's book, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up.

And I was listening to it on Spotify.

And I started at the four.

So the stack in general, or sometimes...

So I come from the school of thought of Beatrice Chestnut.

And so I think of it as also more of a sequence.

In general, I just think of it as something where you use the instincts in a certain order, typically.

And I have a friend, Megan Burton, who says that she thinks the instincts are actually way more helpful than the Enneagram itself.

And you might know Beatrice Chestnut's work if you've done any research in the Enneagram.

And she talks about those as self-preservation, social, and one-on-one or sexual instincts.

And then this new book from the Art of Growth, they call them the hunter, teamer, and farmer book.