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The Enneagram distinguishes between nine personality structures. These can be seen as nine different prisms that are viewing the same reality — nine prisms through which reality is perceived differently. The prisms filter what is seen and what available information enters, and how it’s processed internally. In psychology, it’s called selective perception. You observe selectively. Once you realize this, you immediately understand the pointlessness of all the “is so!/is not!” conversations you may have experienced in your life (with yourself or with others). This is usually a matter of both people seeing different things due to looking through different prisms. As a result, it’s possible that what one person has perceived or experienced is true, and that what the other person has perceived or experienced is also true. The only conclusion you can then draw together is that you have perceived or experienced things differently. This is a first step toward understanding others and toward respecting them and what they have seen or experienced differently.