Friday, November 15, 2019

"Whole-Identity" by Dr. Jerome Lubbe

This book uses neuroscience and psychology to explain how different preferences and personalities make up one's whole identity.  People are shaped by both their genetics and their experiences--nature and nurture.  There is the left brain, the right brain, and the brain stem.  There is emotion, intellect, and instinct.  This book also goes into the famous Enneagram test.  While readers do not need to have taken the Enneagram to learn something from this book, they will get the most out of this book if they take the test.  I had personally never taken this test before and decided to about halfway through the book.  The Enneagram is available free of charge online and takes less than 10 minutes, so I'd say it's a good investment.  Lubbe has some excellent charts and art in this book, which makes it fun.  My only qualm about this book was the incredibly confusing math in it.  Enneagram scores do not add up to 100.  I figured why not just add up all the scores and do percentages that way.  However, Lubbe outlined some very confusing equations that I could not replicate.  In the next version of the book, I need the math needs to be simplified and clarified.  It was not easy to follow at all.

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