Finding the True Self, Part 9: Navigating Past Pride

Finding the True Self, Part 9: Navigating Past Pride
An engraving by Gerard de Lairesse in which Hermes appears and demands that the goddess Calypso lets Odyesseus go. Public Domain
James Sale
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We left Odysseus at type Three on the Enneagram almost totally destroyed. His ship and crew were completely so, and he himself is hanging on by a thread to life on some makeshift raft from his boat’s wreckage, drifting away from the whirlpool, Charybdis, and lost on the high seas. He has deceived himself about his own capabilities, and along the way deceived his men, and this is the result of such self-deception.

Now, Odysseus drifts for nine days until he is washed up on the island of Ogygia.

James Sale
James Sale
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James Sale has had over 50 books published, most recently, “Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams” (Routledge, 2021). He has been nominated for the 2022 poetry Pushcart Prize, and won first prize in The Society of Classical Poets 2017 annual competition, performing in New York in 2019. His most recent poetry collection is “StairWell.” For more information about the author, and about his Dante project, visit EnglishCantos.home.blog
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