So what's up these lines and arrows on the Enneagram symbol?

Well, that's the topic of today's podcast on your Enneagram Coach, the podcast,

where we have helped millions of people around the world discover and explore

in order to become the person that they've always longed to be.

I'm Jeff McCord, co-founder and CEO of your Enneagram Coach,

and I'm joined today with our

director of coaching, Adam Breckenridge. Adam, good to have you. Good to be with you. Now, we're

recording this the day after the Chiefs Ravens game. That was a pretty exciting game. One by a toe.

One by a toe. But, you know, as someone told me, I just got off of another call and they said, hey, I heard that there was a Taylor Swift game last night. And I said, yeah, there was. And Taylor Swift won by a toe. So if you don't get the references, that's okay. You still belong with us. You're in the right spot. Well, for the next few episodes, we're going to be discussing the lines and the arrows of the enneagram symbol. Now, you may have wondered if the enneagram symbol itself has any significance, or did someone simply just choose a geometrics figure? Well, these lines, and sometimes they're shown as arrows, they mean a lot.

And not only are we going to help you to understand what they mean,

but in future episodes, we're actually going to go walk through and help you to learn how to practice self-coaching or leadership

based upon your understanding of the two lines and arrows that

actually extend from your main type. But you may have noted also that I'm using terms like

lines and arrows because different logos actually have, sometimes there's just a simple

line, sometimes there's an arrow. Well, the reason why that sometimes teachers use the arrows is to denote or kind of communicate the fact that there's a dynamic aspect to the enneagram is that these other numbers are actually part of us. And we move towards or begin to adopt some of the strategies, the behaviors, the

relational style of these other numbers.

So the Enneagram is not static.

So we're not just one thing.

We're a lot of different things that are happening inside of us.

So Adam, why don't you take this a little bit further because we've had some great

conversations particularly highlighting this idea, but through the idea of the movie Inside

Out, which has been very popular these days. And we've been, we've already watched Inside Out twice

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