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“Social Eights are more loyal, more overtly friendly, and less aggressive. They are helpful Eights—people who are nurturing, protective, and concerned with the injustices that happen to people. Male Social Eights can look like Type Nines, and female Social Eights may resemble Type Twos. However, these Eights can be distinguished from Nines and Twos because they act in more direct, powerful ways, engage more readily in conflict, and express more power and control in seeking to protect and support other people.”

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Book:The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge
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“Social Nines can look like Type Threes because they work very hard and accomplish a lot without showing the stress of it. But they differ from Threes in that they are much more reluctant to be in the spotlight and they don’t support the group to create an image or to win admiration from others. They may also be mistaken for Twos because they are active in meeting the needs of others, but they have much less need for approval and appreciation than Twos, and are generally more emotionally steady.”

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Book:The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge
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“In the course of working on ourselves, we learn in time that when we stay on the surface of ourselves, which is to say when we are identified with and operating from our outer shell—our personality—we suffer. The more asleep we are to the reality beneath our shells, the less we feel that life is fulfilling, meaningful, and pleasurable. Or, in the language of the enneagram, the more fixated we are, the less we partake of the loving nature of reality, for we have lost our connection with Holy Love. Our suffering is not the result of being alone or of being in the wrong relationship, is not because we don’t have enough money or because we have too much of it, or because of anything of the sort. Nor is it because our outer surface doesn’t look as pretty as we think it should or because our personality isn’t as pleasant as we think it might be. We suffer because we are living at a distance from our depths—it’s as simple as that. The more our souls are infused with Being, the better we feel and the better life seems to us, no matter what our outer circumstances happen to be.”

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Book:The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul
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“To my readers, I hope this book inspires you to align your investing strategies with your core strengths while recognizing the importance of balance and growth. Whether you are a Type Three seeking achievement, a Type Nine striving for peace, or a Type Two driven by helping others, investing can reflect your highest ideals. But as Frankl and Adler remind us, financial success alone does not sate our deepest yearnings. Meaning arises when we transcend self-interest to seek something larger.”

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Book:Suit Yourself: A Portfolio Strategy for Every Personality Type
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“Matching portfolio strategies to personality types thus became a primary thesis I pursued with equal parts curiosity and passion. I felt it was my calling to marry my expertise in finance, experience with personal investing, insights into clinical psychology, and a lifelong passion for pop culture into an accessible but powerful system to help readers on their road to financial empowerment. At the same time, I wanted to develop a message with an empathetic voice that would honor individuality. That is the origin story of Suit Yourself.”

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Book:Suit Yourself: A Portfolio Strategy for Every Personality Type
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“Suit Yourself incorporates personality typing into the finance genre. Using principles from said typology, this book guides readers to understand their unconscious tendencies and how mental, emotional, and instinctual leanings can play out in investment decisions.”

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Book:Suit Yourself: A Portfolio Strategy for Every Personality Type
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“Maybe there's no one right way to be a good person, and maybe there's no advisory board signing off on who does and doesn't deserve badges.”

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Book:Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self – An Irreverent Modern Path to Authentic Transformation
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