Who Are You? Understanding Your Personality with the Enneagram

By D. Patrick Miller

This concise and friendly guide to the Enneagram, a popular personality typing system, helps you understand just what personality is and how it affects your everyday life for better or worse. Unlike other personality systems, the Enneagram yields information that helps you make the most of your personality style, without being pigenholed by it. Illustrations and celebrity examples help make this introduction to the Enneagram crystal-clear.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. Patrick Miller
• Release date: Jan 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452477114

D. Patrick Miller

Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous books, including The Religion of Ancient Israel. He is coeditor of the Interpretation commentary series and the Westminster Bible Companion series. In 1998, he served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature. He was also editor of Theology Today for twenty years.

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WHO ARE YOU?

Understanding Your Personality

with the Enneagram

© 2014 by D. Patrick Miller

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

What is personality?

A new perspective on personality and growth

What’s your type (and do you want one)?

Find Your Type

ONE: THE PERFECTIONIST

TWO: THE GIVER

THREE: THE PERFORMER

FOUR: THE ROMANTIC

FIVE: THE OBSERVER

SIX: THE SKEPTIC

SEVEN: THE EPICURE

EIGHT: THE PROTECTOR

NINE: THE MEDIATOR

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What is personality?

Your personality consists of all the ways you behave that are predictable (which could include being unpredictable). Your personality is what other people expect of you after they’ve known you for a while; it’s the face you present to the world, made up of all your usual behaviors. You may be moody or cheerful, determined or indecisive, sociable or private, or some combination of these qualities (and many more, most likely). What’s more, you may express contradictory qualities without even being aware of them.

It’s difficult to recognize and understand your own personality. It would be like trying to draw or describe your own face if you’d never seen it. You know your personality is there, you know it has definite characteristics, and you know that people respond to it in certain ways. But you can’t quite get a complete picture of it. You’ve probably realized that your personality is bigger, deeper, and more complex than you’re usually aware of.

Perhaps there are parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable, that you may even wish would go away. Sometimes it may feel like parts of your personality