Podcast - Episode 0241 - Your Personality Type Fixation (FIRM Model)

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  • Bradley
  • September 4, 2018 at 12:20 am

  Hi! I’m Bradley. I’m 31, male, and was raised as part of a white minority. I’ve listened to PH since 2014, and have benefited immensely from doing so.

  Three assorted thoughts on the FIRM model:

  1. It’s interesting that FIRM highlights the similarities between the EJ functions, whereas a list of eight cognitive functions can instead paint the difference between extroverted feeling and extroverted thinking as equal to the difference between any other two given functions. Obviously the car model negates some of this effect as the co-pilot necessarily has specific differences to the pilot and so on.

  2. What is the intended purpose of the FIRM model? Is its primary role a tool for coaches to use? I can see the emphasis on fixation being highly useful in the real world of coaching, and less alluring for the casual observer who would possibly be more strongly drawn to finding their super-power.

  3. The last two pod topics have been related to understanding energies. I am currently trying to better understand the enneagram concept of moving to another number in times of health – is there a parallel in FIRM? Do we generate another, healthy fixation when our basic fixation is sated? Similarly, do we change God-energies in times of health and times of stress?

  Fascinated to hear everyone’s thoughts, although I will try not to fixate upon them. :)

  Bradley