From a reader regarding the enneagram personality system:
Your book was phenomenal. Maybe it's a side-effect of a good narrative, but I was slightly unnerved by how much I could identify with your behaviors and observations.
One reason why I suspect I enjoyed your story so much is not due to possible overlaps of sociopathy, but that we may share the same personality index from the enneagram.
Are you familiar with the enneagram? As a profound "7-type," or "enthusiast" the pattern of trying many things, extreme sports, professions, people to date, and then getting bored and moving on to something else is a quintessential feature. Apparently this type can exist independently of the presence or absence of a "personality disorder."
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As far as the enneagram thing goes, I believe there's a lot to unpack there with its relation to sociopathy. In short, the enneagram is a sort of more useful version of the Meyers Briggs to determine useful career paths. One of them is the "enthusiast" another monicker for a sensation seeker/ creative type. I know the enneagram seems cheesy, but after I guessed every one of my friends' type at law school (They are mostly 8s and 1s) and they took the test I was right each time. But I truly wonder how ubiquitous sensation seeking is among sociopaths. I figure there are risk averse socios out there, or maybe not? I'd like to hear what you think about this.
All being said, you strike me as an enthusiast. You hated being bored in a law office (while this should be self evident for any normal human being, everyone I worked with seemed content with their corner office lives). You did the bare minimum to pass school and the bar while maximizing your vacation time. You enjoyed sexual exploration. And you showed the creativity to write a book and lead a cool blog. Those are all qualities of an enthusiast.
Your book was phenomenal. Maybe it's a side-effect of a good narrative, but I was slightly unnerved by how much I could identify with your behaviors and observations.
One reason why I suspect I enjoyed your story so much is not due to possible overlaps of sociopathy, but that we may share the same personality index from the enneagram.
Are you familiar with the enneagram? As a profound "7-type," or "enthusiast" the pattern of trying many things, extreme sports, professions, people to date, and then getting bored and moving on to something else is a quintessential feature. Apparently this type can exist independently of the presence or absence of a "personality disorder."
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As far as the enneagram thing goes, I believe there's a lot to unpack there with its relation to sociopathy. In short, the enneagram is a sort of more useful version of the Meyers Briggs to determine useful career paths. One of them is the "enthusiast" another monicker for a sensation seeker/ creative type. I know the enneagram seems cheesy, but after I guessed every one of my friends' type at law school (They are mostly 8s and 1s) and they took the test I was right each time. But I truly wonder how ubiquitous sensation seeking is among sociopaths. I figure there are risk averse socios out there, or maybe not? I'd like to hear what you think about this.
All being said, you strike me as an enthusiast. You hated being bored in a law office (while this should be self evident for any normal human being, everyone I worked with seemed content with their corner office lives). You did the bare minimum to pass school and the bar while maximizing your vacation time. You enjoyed sexual exploration. And you showed the creativity to write a book and lead a cool blog. Those are all qualities of an enthusiast.