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Creativity Gift of Enneagram Type 3 :: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. –Thomas A. Edison

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Each Enneagram type brings a distinct creative contribution to problem solving and teamwork. Here we examine the creative style of Enneagram Type 3.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. –Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration—Action

As Thomas Edison so eloquently put, the creative process requires both inspiration and action.  Enneagram Type 3 accesses these two dynamics readily along the Enneagram’s Paths of Integration and Disintegration.  Under stress, Type 3 receives inspiration along the path of disintegration (towards Type 9 dynamics) and becomes most productive along the path of integration (towards Type 6 dynamics.)

Direction of arrow is path of integration; opposite of arrow is path of disintegration

Creativity Seesaw

Alternating motion along the paths of integration and disintegration serve as an engine for each Enneagram type’s creativity.   Chapter 5 in my book Teamwork 9.0—Successful Workgroup Problem Solving Using the Enneagram describes the creativity gifts of each Enneagram type. The seesaw is an apt metaphor for the alternating motion between inspiration and action during the creative process. The underlying motivation of each Enneagram type serves as the creative drive and is represented by the seesaw’s fulcrum. Like the height of the fulcrum, the higher a person’s motivation the more variation they are likely to experience when oscillating between their paths of integration and disintegration, between inspiration and action. For Type 3, the underlying motivation is recognition for successes.

Enneagram Type 3 Motivation:  Recognition for Successes

Enneagram Type 3 is always on the alert for ideas that further their success.  They often rely on the opinions of others to determine what distinguishes a “good” idea from a “bad” idea.  This dynamic can be represented by the motion of Type 3 in stress along the path of disintegration towards the dynamics of Type 9.  Type 9 is the type that best represents taking into account the perspectives and opinions of others. In this state, the 3 can distill their multitude of ideas down to those that are most worthy of accolades from others.

Enneagram Type 3 Inspiration:  Seeking to Appease Others

Enneagram Type 3 Action: Systematically Achieving Goals

In possession of a winning idea, the 3 gets to action. Type 3s are some of the hardest working of all types, just ask my wife whose mother is a Type 3.  Both she and her sister are continually amazed and often exasperated by the boundless energy of their 80-year-old mother!  Type 3s take a very systematic approach to accomplishing tasks, resembling the dynamic of Type 6 which lies on Type 3’s path of integration.  In this state, Type 3’s work tirelessly towards realizing their goal.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things. –Larry Page

Failure is Not an Option

For Type 3, winning is imperative and failure is not an option.  If there is ever any doubt about realizing their objective, the 3 falls back into the state of stress towards Type 9 dynamics and again seeks inspiration for how to avoid failure.  Back and forth the Type 3 goes between inspiration and action on the Creativity Seesaw.

How do the Enneagram Type 3s in your life seek ideas and opportunities for success and recognition? At times do you find them attentive of others?  When are they heads down at work?  Do they ever take a break, or does one accomplishment just inspire them to pursue the next?

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For more details on each Enneagram type’s creative style, see the following series of blogs:

Enneagram Type 1 Creativity – Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. – Michelangelo

Enneagram Type 2 Creativity – Create with the heart; build with the mind. – Criss Jami

Enneagram Type 3 Creativity – Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

Enneagram Type 4 Creativity – Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

Enneagram Type 5 Creativity – Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. – Albert Einstein

Enneagram Type 6 Creativity – The creative adult is the child who survived. – Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Enneagram Type 7 Creativity – You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Enneagram Type 8 Creativity – Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury

Enneagram Type 9 Creativity – But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Creativity Gift of Enneagram Type 2 :: Create with the heart; build with the mind. —Criss Jami

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Each Enneagram type brings a distinct creativity to problem solving and teamwork. Here we examine the creativity gift of Enneagram Type 2.

Create with the heart; build with the mind. —Criss Jami

Inspiration—Action

The creative process requires both inspiration and action.  Enneagram Type 2 has a distinct process for accessing these two dynamics.  Using Enneagram’s Paths of Integration and Disintegration, Type 2 moves to Type 4 in integration (stress-free) and to Type 8 in disintegration (stressful). Motion along these paths can serve as an engine for creativity—one path tends towards inspiration and the other towards action.

Direction of arrow is path of integration; opposite of arrow is path of disintegration

Creativity Seesaw

Creativity is at the core of problem solving.  In my book on team problem solving, Teamwork 9.0—Successful Workgroup Problem Solving Using the Enneagram, I devote a chapter to how each Enneagram type can access their innate creativity. The seesaw serves to visualize the interaction between inspiration and action during the creative process as people move along their paths of integration and disintegration.  Underlying motivation forms the basis for each Enneagram type’s creative drive, and the seesaw’s fulcrum serves as a metaphor for that motivation. The higher the motivation, the more variation you are likely to experience when oscillating between the paths of integration and disintegration, between inspiration and action. For Type 2, the underlying motivation is the need for appreciation.

Enneagram Type 2 Motivation:  Needing Appreciation

Enneagram Type 2 is informed by their feelings about how others need to be helped. By helping others Type 2s receive the appreciation they need.   Type 2s are most closely in touch with their own feelings when they are experiencing less stress, along their path of integration towards Type 4.  Tapping into Type 4’s pining for what is missing, Type 2 can perceive what others are missing and needing.  This perception forms the spark for Type 2 inspiration.

Enneagram Type 2 Inspiration:  Feeling the Needs of Others

Enneagram Type 2 Action: Fulfilling Those Needs

Having an idea but yet not having received appreciation, the 2 moves to stress and action along the path of disintegration towards Type 8 behaviors.  Type 8 dynamics are those most closely associated with taking decisive action.  As the 2 fulfills the needs of others and receives gratitude for their generous acts, they move back towards integration and the ability to see again what is needed by others.  And so goes Type 2’s up-and-down motion on the Creativity Seesaw between inspiration and action.

I had a gift of rhyme and a big imagination and that’s just how I started and how I’m still a-goin’. —Dolly Parton

How do Enneagram Type 2s in your life receive the appreciation they need? Do other’s needs spark their creativity? Are they particularly adept at feeling what is missing in the lives of others?  Do they become determined to fulfill those needs?

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For more details on each Enneagram type’s creative style, see the following series of blogs:

Enneagram Type 1 Creativity – Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. – Michelangelo

Enneagram Type 2 Creativity – Create with the heart; build with the mind. – Criss Jami

Enneagram Type 3 Creativity – Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

Enneagram Type 4 Creativity – Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

Enneagram Type 5 Creativity – Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. – Albert Einstein

Enneagram Type 6 Creativity – The creative adult is the child who survived. – Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Enneagram Type 7 Creativity – You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Enneagram Type 8 Creativity – Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury

Enneagram Type 9 Creativity – But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Creativity Gift of Enneagram Type 1 :: Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. –Michelangelo

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Each Enneagram type brings a distinct creativity to problem solving and teamwork. Here we examine the creativity gift of Enneagram Type 1.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. –Michelangelo

Inspiration—Action

The creative process requires both inspiration and action.  Each Enneagram type has a distinct process for accessing these two dynamics.  Here I use the Enneagram’s Paths of Integration and Disintegration to understand movement between inspiration and action during the creative process. These paths are inscribed within the circle of the Enneagram, integration in the direction of the arrow, and disintegration opposite the arrow.  Type 1 moves to Type 4 in disintegration (stressful) and Type 7 in integration (stress-free).

Direction of arrow is path of integration; opposite of arrow is path of disintegration

Creativity Seesaw

Creativity is an integral part of problem solving.  I devote a chapter to the nine creativity gifts of each Enneagram type in my book on team effectiveness, Teamwork 9.0—Successful Workgroup Problem Solving Using the Enneagram. The seesaw serves as a tool to visualize the back-and-forth motion between inspiration and action for each type.  The seesaw is perched on a fulcrum much like each Enneagram dynamic is based on an underlying motivating force. The greater the motivating force, the more acute are the creative inclinations. For Enneagram Type 1, the underlying motivation is the need to right wrongs.

Enneagram Type 1 Motivation:  Needing to Right Wrongs

Enneagram Type 1’s intuition informs them when something is not right, not how it should be.  When alerted to something wrong, Type 1 can feel stress and movement along the path of disintegration towards the behaviors of Type 4.  Type 4s pine for what is missing in the world. Similarly, Type 1 recognizes what isn’t there but should be there. In that state, Type 1 develops a vision for how the world should be to right the perceived wrong. (Type 1s often use the words should and shouldn’t.)  Type 1’s inspiration derives from their intuition while in stress.

Having clearly identified the problem and having a vision for the “correct” world, the 1 sets out to inform others around them. A colleague once described this behavior in a Type 1 co-worker as “the town crier.”  This behavior can be likened to movement along the Type 1’s path of integration towards the talkative, enthusiastic Type 7.  Informing the community in this fashion can spur people to take action that rights the wrong.

Enneagram Type 1 Inspiration:  Identify what’s missing

Enneagram Type 1 Action: Inform others, spurring them to action

Of course, the Type 1 will often be self-motivated to take action and right the wrong themselves.  Since their particular vision for how to right the wrong may not be shared widely with others, this will cause the Type 1 to swing back into the stressful state compelling them to determine why there is a mismatch.  Once they have made that determination, using their new information they will move back to communicating and clarifying.  And, so it goes, back-and-forth on the Type 1’s creativity seesaw driving forward to righting a wrong and solving a problem.

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.    –Salvador Dali

How do the Enneagram Type 1s in your life react to perceived wrongs?  Do they see what’s not there like the Type 4? Do they communicate with others like the Type 7? Do they get others involved, or take care of problems themselves?

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For more details on each Enneagram type’s creative style, see the following series of blogs:

Enneagram Type 1 Creativity – Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. – Michelangelo

Enneagram Type 2 Creativity – Create with the heart; build with the mind. – Criss Jami

Enneagram Type 3 Creativity – Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

Enneagram Type 4 Creativity – Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

Enneagram Type 5 Creativity – Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. – Albert Einstein

Enneagram Type 6 Creativity – The creative adult is the child who survived. – Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Enneagram Type 7 Creativity – You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Enneagram Type 8 Creativity – Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury

Enneagram Type 9 Creativity – But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

What’s the difference between Enneagram and Myers-Briggs®?

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I am frequently asked about the difference between the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. First, one requires a registered trademark symbol, and the other doesn’t.  But, let’s not start there, let’s start with the origins of each system.

Origins of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

MBTI® is a personality typing system devised by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers based on Carl Jung’s work.  The system was used in America during World War II to help women entering the manufacturing workforce to land in a role most suited for them.  In other words, it was used to determine that Rosie would make an excellent riveter. The first handbook on the system was published in 1944 and the system grew in popularity thereafter.

Origins of the Enneagram

The Enneagram system has roots tracing back to ancient Egypt and Greece.  The system describes the order of dynamics that occur in nature, which is why the types are numbers.  These dynamics include but are not limited to personality dynamics.  The personality system that we understand today was developed by Oscar Ichazo in the 1950’s and the system grew in popularity thereafter.  Unlike MBTI®, the Enneagram is not attributable to any person or group of people, but represents collective wisdom accrued over millennia.

Squaring the Circle

The Enneagram system describes nine personality types, each type represented by a number, e.g., Type 4. The nine types are evenly distributed around the circle of the Enneagram diagram.  The nine types can be grouped into three groups of three types.  The three groups, or centers, are called the body-intuitive center, the heart-feeling center, and the head-thinking center.  Types 8, 9 and 1 comprise the body-intuitive center; Types 2, 3 and 4, the heart-feeling center; and Types 5, 6 and 7, the head-thinking center.

MBTI® types can be represented with a four-by-four grid, each of the 16 types falling within the grid.  The system assesses personality along four dimensions, and all combinations of the four dimensions can be represented by a square in the grid. The four dimensions are: 1) Extroversion(E)-Introversion(I); 2) Sensing(S)-Intuition(N); 3) Thinking(T)-Feeling(F); and, 4) Judging(J)-Perceiving(P).  MBTI® types are represented by letters which indicate the dominance of the type in each dimension, e.g. INFP.

Three Dimensions versus Three Centers

The Enneagram broadly classifies types into the three processing centers: Intuitive, Feeling and Thinking.  MBTI® uses these same words. For instance, the Thinking-Feeling dimension clearly speaks to the Enneagram’s Feeling and Thinking centers.  Likewise, MBTI®’s Sensing-Intuition dimension seems to speak to the Enneagram’s Intuitive center.  While both systems use similar words, it is not clear to me that the words mean the same thing.  For instance, the Enneagram’s Intuitive center consists of Types 8, 9 and 1, however the MBTI® Intuitive type descriptions correspond to those of Enneagram Types 4 and 5.  Clearly, “intuitive” has a different meaning depending on the system.  The MBTI® Judging types describe styles associated with the Enneagram’s Type 1 and 8, which are both in the Enneagram’s Intuitive center.  The Enneagram would say that judging is informed by intuition, and therefore puts these types in the Intuitive center.

Introversion and Extroversion

MBTI® puts introversion and extroversion front and center as the first dimension in that system.  Interestingly, Carl Jung was an introvert having a storied rivalry with a famous extrovert, Sigmund Freud.  It is interesting how this rivalry is memorialized by the first letter in the MBTI® system.  The Enneagram, on the other hand, takes the approach that while some types, like Types 3, 7 and 8, are more extroverted than others, each type can have an extroverted or an introverted side.  These differences within type are captured by the Enneagram’s “wing” types, the type on other side of any given type.  Also, each Enneagram type can have a sub-type—self-preservation, intimate, or social—that speaks to three points or modes on the extroversion-introversion scale.

Personality and Brain

In researching how the brain influences types, I came across Peter Savich’s work Personality and the Brain (http://personalityandthebrain.org/paper.html). Savich has developed a fascinating model tying amygdala and prefrontal cortex function to the nine types described by the Enneagram. Furthermore, based on Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst author Robert Sapolsky’s description of the brain’s influence on behavior, I suspect that the insular cortex is responsible for the behaviors described by the Enneagram’s sub-types.  Three parts of the brain may drive modalities for the Enneagram’s nine types (twenty-seven types including subtypes). I have yet to see a similar model mapping brain functionality to MBTI® types.

Matt’s Takes

Both systems provide a platform on which to understand that there exists a multiplicity of styles and that different styles serve different roles on teams and in society.  Both systems allow us to appreciate the diversity and value of the other styles.

I like the way the Enneagram describes motion and change over time.  There is the motion around the circle, from 1 to 9, as we move through problem solving—the topic of my book Teamwork 9.0.  There is the motion described by the lines within the circle, sometimes referred to as the paths of integration and disintegration as each type moves in and out of stress, maturity and security.  The Enneagram describes how our behaviors can change over time.  On the other hand, MBTI® represents a static system, more of a fixed snapshot of personality independent of time.

The Enneagram also prescribes how, why and when a specific type can access the behaviors of other types.  We may start at our core type but at times need to access the behaviors and styles other types.  By doing the interpersonal work to move yourself along your path of integration, you become increasing able to intentionally access the dynamics of the other types. I am not familiar with how the MBTI® system prescribes how one type can access the dynamics of other types.

With the advancement of brain scanning technology like fMRI, I expect that over time we will understand how each personality system maps to specific brain functionality.  The Enneagram holds promise for a simple, elegant mapping between the Enneagram types and subtypes and three parts of the brain that drive behaviors, the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and the insular cortex.

I see the Enneagram as the cumulative knowledge over millennia of humanity’s quest to understand nature, in particular human nature.  It is a balanced approach that represents each dynamic evenly. MBTI® on the other hand was designed to quickly plug people with a certain proclivity into a role at a factory.  Rather than emerging from a pursuit of truth in nature, it was conceived from the mind of an introverted man (Jung) a century ago and popularized by the need to deploy an untapped labor pool in time of war.

Finally, the Enneagram is yours—it belongs to you.  There is no registered trademark.  You do not need a license.  It is the collective wisdom of humanity, your ancestors. You are free to try it, use it, explore it, play with it, and have fun with it.  The more you study it, the more you learn.  I have been studying it for nearly 20 years, and I feel like I am just beginning to appreciate the power of the Enneagram.

The Nine Creativity Gifts: Creativity and the Enneagram

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Where does creativity come from?  Can anyone be creative? How can you tap into your own personal creativity?

I know a very smart, creative person who confided in me that they do not think that they are creative. WHAT?  I couldn’t believe my ears.  I wondered if this person had defined creativity so narrowly that they discounted and minimized certain forms of creativity, including their own.  Based on their self-perception, I am afraid the answer to that is yes.

In my book Teamwork 9.0, I explore the application of the Enneagram to team problem solving.  The Enneagram is commonly used as a powerful personality system, but it can be used more broadly than that.  Most people who use the Enneagram for personality are unaware that the reason the Enneagram types are numbers is that the numbers represent the order in which people solve problems.  In short, the Enneagram is also a problem-solving process represented by motion around the circle, from steps 1 to 9 and back to 1.

As a problem-solving framework, the Enneagram provides a direct link between a step in problem solving and a personality dynamic that is perfectly suited for that step—step 1 connects to Type 1, step 2 to Type 2, etc. It goes to reason that each step in problem solving requires a certain creative dynamic, implying that there may be nine distinct creative energies, each suited for a particular step in the process.

Necessity the Mother of Invention?

In Chapter 5 of Teamwork 9.0, I describe nine distinct creative dynamics, one for each Enneagram type.  Inspired by the saying, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention,” I thought about how “necessity” affects each type.   Looking at the Enneagram diagram, each Enneagram type is connected to two other types by what are called the Path of Integration (direction of arrow) and Path of Disintegration (opposite of arrow). These paths describe how the behaviors of each type change when we move into a stressful situation (Path of Disintegration) or into a stress-free situation (Path of Integration.)  The movement between stressful and stress-free, can serve as an engine of creativity for each type.  I characterize this dynamic like the motion of a seesaw.  Imagine the following:

Stressful See: Posed with a problem or challenge, a need arises that you must address.

Stress-free Saw: You sleep on the problem and, in your calm state, generate a possible solution which occurs to you when you awake or when you are in the shower the next morning.

Stressful See: Now you need to implement the proposal by acting on your idea.

Stress-free Saw: You are relieved that you are making progress, moving towards resolving the problem.

Stressful See: You encounter an obstacle preventing you from reaching your goal and requiring that you take a new direction.

Stress-free Saw: You sleep on the new problem, and so on.

Each Enneagram type will respond distinctly to the Stressful-Stress-free dynamic, each with a distinct creative flare.  The Enneagram provides an understanding of each creative energy.  It shows how each creativity contributes to problem solving.   Knowing that each Enneagram type brings a unique creative contribution reminds us of the value and benefit of having style-diversity on your teams.

Creativity Seesaw: Inspiration-Action

Thomas Edison famously said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”  Indeed, for each Enneagram type, one path leads more to inspiration, and the other towards action.  The seesaw is a metaphor for moving back and forth between inspiration and action during the creative process.  And while the inspiration-action ratio for Edison may have been 1-to-99, that ratio may be different for each Enneagram type (I’ll hazard a guess that Edison was a Type 3.)

Here are the nine Inspiration-Action pairs as prescribed by movement along the Enneagram paths:

Enneagram Type 1 Creativity Inspiration — Identifying what’s missing to make things right

Action — Informing others to right wrongs
Enneagram Type 2 Creativity Inspiration — Feeling how they can help

Action — Acting on those feelings
Enneagram Type 3 Creativity Inspiration — Seeking to appease others

Action — Systematically achieving goals
 Enneagram Type 4 Creativity Inspiration — Intense feelings for what is missing

Action — Self-righteous express of that void
Enneagram Type 5 Creativity Inspiration — Assimilating information

Action — Asserting knowledge
 Enneagram Type 6 Creativity Inspiration — Envisioning systems that work for everyone

Action — Anxiously working through their to-do list
 Enneagram Type 7 Creativity Inspiration — Collecting and synthesizing ideas

Action — Dogmatically promoting their ideas
 Enneagram Type 8 Creativity Inspiration — Scanning for opportunities while restrained from acting

Action — Acting to help themselves and others
 Enneagram Type 9 Creativity Inspiration — Understanding the cause and nature of discord

Action — Actively creating harmonious environments

 

Motivation is the Seesaw Fulcrum

Underpinning the creativity seesaw for each Enneagram type is the distinct motivation associated with that type.  This motivation underlies our inclinations toward inspiration and action as we move back and forth on our paths.  And like the height of the fulcrum of the seesaw, the higher our motivation, the more motion we will get back and forth between inspiration and action. I review the nine underlying motivations of each Enneagram type in this YouTube video:

 

Mother Necessity or Father Time?

Calling “necessity” the mother, does imply that there is a father.  While I do not think either necessity nor creativity is gendered, I do think that there is a duality to creativity and that the duality can be understood by the inspiration-action pairs. Also, if you look closely at each pair, you will see that some types receive inspiration along the path of disintegration while others receive inspiration in integration.  This has implications for team effectiveness.  Sometimes in problem solving inspiration comes when team members are under stress.  Sometimes inspiration comes when stress-free.  This dynamic is also true for certain Enneagram personality types. Team leaders can use this information to achieve the best outcomes for their teams.

Creativity Broadly

Before, I would have never considered myself a “creative type,” at least as I had understood the term. I associated the “creative type” with what I now understand to be the Enneagram Type 4 dynamic, the type often called “the “Artist.”  Now I understand that my previous definition of creative type is very narrow and that each of us has a creative engine within us that fires up as the need arises.  We may not even be aware of our creative abilities if we are not put into situations that trigger those creative instincts.  Knowing your Enneagram type can help you tap into and maximize you own personal creativity.

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For more details on each Enneagram type’s creative style, see the following series of blogs:

Enneagram Type 1 Creativity – Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. – Michelangelo

Enneagram Type 2 Creativity – Create with the heart; build with the mind. – Criss Jami

Enneagram Type 3 Creativity – Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

Enneagram Type 4 Creativity – Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

Enneagram Type 5 Creativity – Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. – Albert Einstein

Enneagram Type 6 Creativity – The creative adult is the child who survived. – Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Enneagram Type 7 Creativity – You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Enneagram Type 8 Creativity – Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury

Enneagram Type 9 Creativity – But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

How do you characterize your creativity?  What’s your source for ideas? What motivates you to action.  How does creativity play a role in your day-to-day life?

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