I welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm

Antonia Dodge recently we created a program with Dr. Beatrice Chestnut and Aronio Pius who are two teachers of the

any-grand personality system and in program, there was a phrase that they used a lot that I'm not sure if this is a standard part of the Enigram community or if this is just a phrase that they use, but I loved it. And the phrase was being in personality. Now, to understand what that means to be in personality, the contrast was, well they used it as a phrase, in contrast to making the unconscious conscious.

That is a major reason why a person would want to seek, say,

the Enagram personality system is to understand that it reflects back to an individual all of their unconscious patterns and behaviors,

the things that come from not only pre-wiring but also from wounding,

the elements that make them behave in a way that, I mean I guess you could say is kind of like a zombie.

You just wander around behaving the way you behave, unaware of its impact on yourself and on other people, and so all of your unconscious

behaviors stay unconscious.

They had another phrase they used too that they said it was, your personality is who you are not which I thought was another

great way of kind of saying the same thing.

Right particularly when it comes to the inigram because the inigram is not unlike say Myers-Briggs which is

effectively diagnosing the filters that your mind uses to understand

information like Myers-Brigs is is really functionally about or effectively about the cognitive functions and those are just lenses

really they're just ways of processing information and sort of understanding how your mind is going to, you know,

create certain styles of neural pathways and the kinds of things that you're pre-wired to focus on.

The Enagram is much more fleshed out about you

know vices and virtues and mental fixations and things that you overly focus on.

And so the Enagram is a really powerful personal growth tool

for turning unconscious mental patterns and behaviors

into conscious awareness. But before you do that, you are what they

what they stated multiple times, you are in personality, which means that

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