My viewpoint couldn’t possibly be in error!
That’s right. Your viewpoint is your viewpoint. You see what you see. You take in what you take in. It’s not erroneous. It’s a perspective on the world through one facet of the prism.
Your viewpoint isn’t in error — it’s just not complete!
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, through their writings and presentations on relationships, have taught us that marital and other interpersonal problems have everything to do with our failure to respect the Otherness of our spouses, partners, colleagues, and friends. “Sure, I’m quite willing to acknowledge that you see things differently than I do,” we might say, ”and I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong!!!”
Whew! We’ll never get anywhere that way. So let’s take a look at the world from the other person’s perspective. And let’s examine our own perspective, to see what the other person is having to deal with. The enneagram is one of the best tools I know to help us do just that, and the more we learn from it, the more we come to see just how limited our vision typically is. What if we could look through and truly appreciate all facets of the prism?
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