So in trying to make sense of my current feelings, I opened up Google and I searched "Enneagram 5 regret". I thought a good place to start was reading anything written about how people like me experience regret.
I almost spit out my coffee when one of the first pages I navigated to read, "How Type Fives Cope With Regret: Research the psychology of regret instead of, you know, feeling it."
When something goes wrong, my type is known to analyze it to death and then catalogue it in a mental folder one website calls "data for later" except later never comes because feelings are chaotic and burn energy to deal with. At my core type five, I see energy as finite.
Maybe it's a sign of growth that I'm trying to name this potentially feeling as I open that "data for later" folder even if I'm still regressing to some of my core traits to analyze. One website suggests that I
Ask, “What do I want to do with this feeling?” instead of “What’s the most efficient explanation for this?”
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