Extroverts Don’t Belong on Mars

The main finding: When selecting astronauts for your Mars adventure, you may want to choose among the strong, silent types. (Emphasis on the silent.) In isolated contexts, extroverts may be perceived as “demanding of attention and intrusive,” and “their level of warmth may be undesirable in a confined setting.”

Enneagram Type Six: The Need for Security

The quickest conversion experience for the Six is an authentic God experience. (Actually, the same is true for all nine Enneagram types.) The experience of unconditional love is the one thing that, in the long run, can be stronger than fear: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). 

.. Now the Six can move from relying on outer authority to knowing and trusting their Inner Authority. They move from needing certitude and answers to having faith, which demands not knowing and not being certain, but rather being able to hold some anxiety and ambiguity. 

Greer: Prodigal Son & Self-righteous Son

She’s not a selfish person. But she’s always at the center of everything she’s doing. “How can I witness better? How can I do this better? How can I take care of this person’s problem better?” It’s me, me, me disguised in a way that is difficult to see because her spiritual talk disarms us.

.. Jesus told this parable to outline two types of people estranged from God: amoral hedonists and the morally righteous. Both paths are spiritual dead ends.

Hedonism and heroism (doing good) are brothers, not polar opposites. Both are focused on ourselves. At their core, both are about wanting our own way. One is wrapped in good deeds and religious service, but both are empty.