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don’t have to deal with mood swings. They don’t show highs and lows. You can pretty much predict how they’re going to behave, and they tend to do things at an even pace, so people around them don’t get anxious.
In Shadow, however, all these wonderful things can go a little awry and what happens is they can move at a very, very slow pace and have such low energy that they have a difficult time exerting themselves and a difficult time staying focused.
If we don’t understand a Nine's unconscious motivator, which is to have peace and harmony, it’s very easy to see these folks as being purely lazy when they are in Shadow. and yes, it might look like that, but it’s really conflict avoidance as the culprit.
In Best Self, Nines are able to accept people and things the way they are. It’s really kind of nice—they’re not judgmental, they don’t make people feel that they have to change to their liking, they don’t have a lot of preconceived ideas or they don’t offer a lot of harsh criticism. It’s
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kind of nice to be around that. They also believe for the most part that things will work themselves out. When there’s a problem or an issue, they don’t feel they need to jump right in and micromanage a situation. Their perspective is more of “let me sit back and watch what’s happening and then I’ll intervene when it’s appropriate to intervene.”
When they move into Shadow, this kind of nonconfrontational style and not wanting to deal with things can go to extreme. This can be a bad thing because they can let things go way too long unattended that really did need an intervention. They really don’t take appropriate proactive initiative to deal with some things. They’re much more reactive or they don’t even act at all. They may procrastinate, they hope problems will go away, or they hope that the people who are doing the complaining will eventually go away if they ignore it long enough. This is a perfect example of the cost of Shadow behavior. When Nines ignore things, hoping that they’re going to go away, problems
unattended can get bigger and worse. A Nine then has to deal with even greater conflict and bigger problems—exactly what that they’re trying to avoid which creates even greater anxiety and the cycle continues.
In Best Self, Nines are content with simplicity. They’re down home kind of people, they don’t make life complicated, they rely on familiar solutions, they like the tried and true, and they won’t introduce unnecessary pressure in what they’re doing.
In Shadow, however, they can become too attached to the status quo and they can get into a rut, become resistant to change and just too content with things being good enough. They take the "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" mentality to an unnatural extreme when, in fact, things really are broken and do need to be fixed.