Jason Wasser, LMFT, uses the Enneagram to explain why we buy what we buy. A simple choice like picking a brand triggers competing motives: the need to research, save money, look good, or have fun. Understanding these patterns helps you decide less reactively.
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Right? I'm sure, literally, I'm sure that that happens to me. Yeah. Or decision-making on a, like, you're at the store and you're deciding, do I want this brand or I want that brand? Well, okay, which one's 30 cents more? But is it this? Is it right? It becomes that intellectual acrobatics of, right? Again, I'm looking at it maybe through an Enneagram lens of like, okay, so what are you trying to achieve there? Is it like, I haven't done enough research? Am I making sure I get the right product? Is it about saving? Is it about what is it going to look like to others? Is it going to be, is this the best thing? Is this the most fun-looking product? Right? On fun-looking experience, it's all going to be informed by one of those things as well. But that can also all be from— I mean, right? That's also trauma-informed of like, well, what happens if— right? I want to actually wrote down a question.