Nines are often referred to as "Peacemakers," but it has always puzzled me why this term peacemaker so often is viewed through a skeptical lens.
When we look all around us, the vast majority of people in the world value peace very highly. We strive for peace. We want inner peace and much hard-earned cash for seminars to ostensibly teach us the way. Politicians say they want world peace. We give out a Nobel Peace Prize.
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I guess the skepticism comes from the fact that many people in the world have claimed to be at peace but in fact weren't really at peace.
But I have a sneaking suspicion that part of it also comes from the fact that many people still have a very strong fighting and debating instinct and so perhaps they feel a little bit threatened by the idea of peace.
Perhaps they consider "peace" and think to themselves, "Who would I BE, and what VALUE would I bring in a world where PEACE — rather than conflict — is the norm?"
I don't spend a lot of time looking at the Enneagram these days. It feels as if I learned whatever I needed to learn, and I still have many of the lessons rattling around inside my brain and now it is up to me to apply them rather than continuing to study and study and study.
I am really not interested in becoming an eternal student!
That said, I do know quite a few Nines who seem very invested in always studying. Almost as if the ongoing process of studying gives them a "hall pass" to not actually engage in the real and tangible world.
Studying as avoidance. It's a thing...
