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My drawing of Jeffrey Sachs.
What People Like in Cartoons
2-12-10 I just checked my cartoons on my Flickr account. I used to think my most popular one was the one called “Inocculatte,” with the guy in the hospital getting an IV of coffee latte and the nurse saying, “he’d die without his coffee, but ever since I updated a new version of the cartoon a few months ago there apparently haven’t been many visits to it. Flickr erased the old high number of visits to it and started over again. I suspect Flickr’s record-keeping a bit, but…
Today I was surprised and not surprised. My cartoons that featured breasts got a lot of attention. Not a surprise. The anti-Bush cartoon called “The Decider,” quite an original, was very popular, even though he had left office I think when I first put it up. An angry “Asserter” type girl from my book, “The Enneagram of Parenting,” saying “you’ll stay in the corner until I want my dinner!” to her cowering parents, got a lot of attention but not as much as the Peace Seeker, called “Aldercation,” about the woman taking a vacation in the woods under the “drees.” That’s what the word Aldercation means to this peaceful soul. So I guess people like extremes in peaceful and assertive personalities.
The winner of all was the cartoon in the front of “The Enneagram Made Easy” called “the Dinner Party,” with all nine types sitting around a table acting like their typical selves. Maybe Enneagram teachers upload it to show their classes or, like my doctor, to give to their dinner guests as something to build conversations around. Speaking of conversations, you might want to visit my PsychologyToday blog. I’ve found some interesting topics to talk about lately. <!— /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”“; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} —> http://bit.ly/psychtdy
The Happy Introvert
NEW BOOK by me and Ingrid Stabb,
THE CAREER WITHIN YOU
My web site
Find out about all my my books, see some of my cartoons, read some reviews and some articles I wrote, incuding my movie review of “A Heart in Winter.” Also see the short book by me and Harry Gans, “How to Survive Death,” complete on the web site.
The Enneagram
I have a “Parenting Using the Enneagram” group on Facebook. It’s gathering members quickly. The Enneagram furthers acceptance of self and others. As I think about it, every school should teach and teach by the Enneagram. I wish we would all use the Enneagram in dealing with family, big and small countries, neighbors, in schools and workplaces, as well as our relationships of every kind. It’s not at all just about children, but the best place to begin is with children. You don’t have to be a parent or a teacher to join this group.
I also have a group on Facebook called Relationships Using the Enneagram. Renee Baron and I wrote a book that tell the assets and drawbacks of every personality type with every other personality type, plus much more, “Are You My Type, Am I Yours?” It has sold thousands and thousands of copies and been very helpful to people in relationships and those looking to improve their chances. Our group will discuss problems or progress people have experienced and use the wisdom of the Enneagram.
Elizabeth’s 6 other book and CD covers. The translations are on Flickr.com.
Fr The Happy Introvert is a book I wrote with chapters on children, relationships, Jung, neurology, and more. At the end I talk about the movie, “Napoleon Dynamite,” in which the hero is an introvert.
The colored cartoon is from my Enneagram book for children, FINDING THE BIRTHDAY CAKE. It introduces them to the nine personality types by way of a fun story with a happy ending and cute characters.
