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Jacinda Ardern: Anxiety in power. Or the power of anxiety.

A few weeks ago, Jacinda Ardern, now the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, decided to hang up her gloves. And boy did she do it with...

Hamlet and Anticipation

Hamlet isn't just a play. It has also occupied a relevant place in the world of psychology. It's a story based on the myth of Orestes....

What is there that I don't see?

Jakob Von Uexküll affirms that all the reality that an organism can perceive and with which it can interact, is the one that its sensory...

50 / 50

Our personality is around 50% nature, and 50% nurture. Our genetic heritage is like a seed, and it evolves in permanent interaction with...

Normal and abnormal are at least first cousins

Both biology and psychology have been discovering for some time now that the frontier between normal and abnormal is not as clear as we...

Your personality is not false

Personality exists because it is useful. Evolutionism understands personality as an adaptation, developed by our brain through...

Tell me how you invest your energy and I’ll tell you who you are

Our energy and time are limited. Our personality determines which aspects of our environment are presented to us as more visible or...

Grow and multiply

In the past, natural selection was understood as the "survival of the fittest". Today we understand adaptive success as the ability to...

Sitting on the wall

We, the authors of Nine Sapiens, have long sat on the wall that divides the world of the Enneagram and that of scientific research,...

The Enneagram in the ICU: the bankruptcy of scientific sustenance

Teachers who set their students to fail. It sounds horrible and unfair. The trap of the enneagram, as some have used it, is this. A model...

Beyond Change

Talking about change is often threatening. There are fundamentals and reasons to think, feel and act as we do. Some of these reasons are...