Most of us know we shouldn't assume others think like us—what psychologists call the typical mind fallacy. But that insight doesn't go deep enough, according to LessWrong. While personality frameworks like the Big Five make it seem like people differ only in flavors—some more introverted, others more conscientious—they're actually just surface variations on the same basic structure. Gordon Seidoh Worley argues that human minds are far more fundamentally diverse than that: not like different ice cream flavors, but entirely different kinds of dessert. He points to the Enneagram as a better lens—a framework mapping deep structural differences in how minds are wired, shaped by what he calls an inborn essence built into our neurology. The Enneagram might not predict behavior perfectly, but it's a humbler way to recognize just how wide the human mind design space really is.

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