Ennegram

[JackOfHearts]

With the ennegram stuff i'm curious that apart from some awareness have you noticed it helping you to make concrete changes as compared to other things?

I've never really got into this stuff because in my mind they are generalizations and how can these things really predict what a person is like.

They can't, it's all just mind masturbation. Unless you believe it can help you, then you will get something out of it, how much of something? Well, depends on how much belief you have in it helping you.

All these are very generalising, but lots of kids online take all these things as facts and live by them as their identity and keep their self in quicksand by believing this is who they are, when it is just a self fulfilling prophecy.

But of course, everyone is free to believe what they want to believe, if it genuinely helps you in some way, then what does it matter?

It only matters, when the things that you believe are not serving you in a positive way. Take Shannon's "cycle" for example, a self fulfilling prophecy.

You are thinking in Black and white term.
In every field most of the guys just scratch the surface of the field then say the field its BS.
EX: "Low quality subliminal tapes doesn't work so all the field doesn't work and subliminal is evil due to that. And all the guys who swear by subliminals are insane"

Ex: "Hypnosis doesn't work because my cousin who learn it yesterday in a magazine couldn't put me in a trance"

Sure they are fields which are filled with BS and are complete BS but not all of them are.

A lot of field of study are thrown to the dirt because some half minded half stupid individual thought it was possible to learn something in just a day or a week and become an expert in that field.