Trusting Your Self, feat. Jeff Chu (Enneagram 6) [S07-008]

Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 3 p.m.

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Sixes have excellent analytical minds, are great strategists, troubleshooters, problem-solvers, and of course, see worst-case scenarios that other people don\'t see. The passion of the Six is fear which is often experienced as anxiety\\u2026anxiety that the unexpected could happen at any time. But once they launch a mental narrative in their head of all that could go wrong, these fictional stories can take on lives of their own and can grow and crowd out what\\u2019s actually happening.\\xa0\\xa0

Today, we revisit my conversation with Jeff Chu to explore the complexities of The Loyalist, and how knowing his Enneagram type has allowed him to identify those aspects of his personality that are responses to things he\'s been through in the past and work through them.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0

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Jeff Chu is a writer, reporter, Editor-at-large at Travel + Leisure, and Teacher in residence at Crosspointe Church. His reporting and writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Travel+Leisure, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Modern Farmer. When big publishers were still starting magazines and pouring millions of dollars into them, Jeff was an editor on the launch team of the now-defunct Conde Nast Portfolio. And before that, he spent seven years at Time magazine, where he really received his journalistic education. Jeff was a London-based web producer and staff writer.

In 2021, Jeff helped turn Rachel Held Evans\\u2019 latest work-in-progress into a finished book titled, \\u201cWholehearted Faith.\\u201d\\xa0 He wove the words of her partial manuscript with other unpublished writings to create a rich collection of essays that ask candid questions about the stories we\\u2019ve been told\\u2014and the stories we tell\\u2014about our faith, our selves, and our world.\\xa0

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