Dalai Lama

Whoopi Goldberg

Ronald Reagan

The Nine's attention goes to connecting with others, maintaining harmony, peace, and comfort, and avoiding conflict. They typically enjoy the feeling of ease, harmony, and peace that they experience in nature. Coping strategy: Some Nines describe their childhood as one in which they felt overlooked or ignored and felt they had to go along with the wishes of others. Other Nines describe having had a pleasant childhood with almost no family conflict. In response to these environments, they learned to identify with others' positions, forget their own point of view, and go along to get along. As a result, while Nines can see many different points of view, they can have a hard time locating their own opinions, desires, or agendas. Major traits: Nines merge with others energetically, taking on the feel and positions of others, thus losing touch with their own internal experience and priorities. As one of the three anger types, Nines can be very out of contact with their own anger, which can leak out in the form of passive-aggression, stubbornness, and passive resistance. Typically they are more focused on others than on themselves. Strengths: Nines can be skilled mediators and loyal, steadfast partners and friends. They can also be warm, understanding and caring. Challenges: They can also have difficulty feeling and expressing anger, dealing with conflict, knowing what they want, and differentiating their experience from others in their lives.

FAMOUS NINES

Loni Anderson, the cultural aura of Bali, Tony Bennett, Ernest Borgnine, Matthew Broderick, Sandra Bullock, George Burns, John Candy, Art Carney, Julia Child, Gary Cooper, Kevin Costner, The Dali Lama, Jeff Daniels, Designer Oscar de la Renta, Dwight Eisenhower, Columbo's Peter Falk, Gerald Ford, Annette Funicello, John Goodman, Tipper Gore, Elliott Gould, Charles Grodin, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Hershey, Paul Hogan, C. G. Jung, Stan Laurel, Abraham Lincoln, Andie MacDowell, Mr. Magoo, Sancho PanzaRandy Quaid, Ronald Reagan, Psychologist Carl Rogers, Roy Rogers, Gena Rowlands, Jerry Seinfeld, Ringo Starr, James Stewart, Adam Sandler, Diana Krall, Mr. Rogers.

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