“But if somebody feels misunderstood by me attempting to understand them, that feels like a pretty big punch in the gut.” “If somebody doesn’t like a song about something that’s just kind of a theme of love or death or whatever else I’ve written about, that’s just more of a preference thing,” he says. 2019 will see the completion of Atlas: Year Two, which includes the enneagram series, captures emotions, senses and “all the stuff we’re born with.” Yet with each successive release, he worries that every new release could be a “total miss,” that his listeners may not understand it - a concern that was amplified while writing the enneagram series. Atlas: Year One, which was completed in 2014, details the origins of the universe and life. O’Neal is also constantly writing - he challenged himself to write three songs every month for a year in his Yearbook album. More than 35 of his songs and covers have also been featured on Grey’s Anatomy. A cover of “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” was featured in Budweiser’s 2015 Super Bowl Commercial and his song “ Turning Page” was featured on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Soundtrack. O’Neal is a seasoned songwriter, with more than 100 releases.
Songs are where I make sense of everything.Īnd so O’Neal found himself listening to podcasts with people who identified as each type, reading books and chatting for hours in a random New Mexico hotel’s conference room. That realization prompted him to turn the echoing thoughts into music - nine songs for nine personality types. “It kind of became the opposite of everything I had probably unfairly tossed into my disbelief in any of these typologies.” “All of a sudden it just became this really beautiful tool in my marriage and this really beautiful vocabulary for who I am and why I do what I do, kind of the shadows of who I am and the ways in which I can hopefully grow and improve,” he reflects. Those few hours of conversation echoed in his mind for years as he began noticing “little gifts and strengths” in himself and those he loved. But because a friend introduced him to enneagrams, he withheld his doubt. Ryan O’Neal, who performs under the moniker “Sleeping at Last,” is seated among acquaintances of acquaintances in this New Mexico hotel’s conference room, discussing the enneagram’s nine different personality types.Īccording to O’Neal, he’s always been “closely skeptical” of personality typologies because they “give people permission not to grow” once they find a “sense of belonging” with their personality type’s flaws.
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Singer Ryan O’Neal aka Sleeping at Last discusses Enneagram types, part of his ‘Atlas II’ series – from his initial skepticism about personality types to the self-realizations they uncovered.
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