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Pros & Cons
Pros
Good info, but a little repetitive. The typos are bothersome. Informative without all the fluff.
The book is unflinching in its honesty as well as gentle and empathetic. It's straight to the point, but makes the journey there really enjoyable. It goes a long way to explaining you to yourself, and your family.
It's pithy and practical. Clear and concise. Can help those unsure of where they sit in the circle find their place.
Cons
This book introduces only about how to look at the diagram and a few basic things about types of personality that are associated with it. The ability to discern and understand the essence of truth is one of their greatest abilities, but it is also a w... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Incredibly well done intro to the system
Easy to understand lots of bullet points and greatfun illustrations
It didn’t demonstrate each types’ weakness not did it provide recommendations for playing well in the sandbox
It made me cringe made me smile and left me richer for my understanding
Shipping
Book arrived quickly and was exactly as described
Packaging/appearance
It is easy to read and follow along while still packing some great info in
Competitiveness
I especially liked how it compared the meyersbriggs types to the enneagram types
It made it easy to compare the types since they all have the same sections
A good basic book to help explain the basic 9 plus a fun comparison to meyers briggs categories
Note some enneagram names are different from enneagram institute site
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- This product had a total of 1,467 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 26 2024.
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For more detail try one of the many other more serious and thorough books
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Ive read a number of books about the eneagram but its this one that has stuck with me even 20 years later
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Moreover what is great about the book is that it is both unflinching in its honesty as well as gentle and empathetic in its assessments of each 34type
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Very self focused rather than other focused
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It starts out very good but gets very complicated
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Perhaps human types are just too complex to be simplified
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Would recommend for people just getting their feet wet in the enneagram
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Serious students of the enneagram might write this book off as too surface
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