The Conceptual Winnie the Pooh Edition

Louis here. This weekend’s New York Times ‘Modern Love’ column was a moving tale of a husband who, after taking the Enneagram personality test, began to lash out at his family.

The test, which assigns numbers to different personality types, had revealed that the man was a Nine – “The Peacemaker.” He couldn’t handle it. I won’t spoil the ending, but things (and numbers) do get better.

I told my friend about the essay, and she asked me if I’d seen the Winnie the Pooh-Enneagram correlation. Apparently, the characters in Winnie the Pooh fit cleanly into the nine Enneagram personality styles, from Eeyore (Type Four, Individualist) to Tigger (Type Seven, Enthusiast) to Pooh (Type Nine, Peacemaker).

Why is this interesting?

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