The Enneagram: What You Need to Understand About the Nine Personality Types While Finding Your Path and Unlocking Your Full Potential on the Journey to Self-Discovery to Become Your True Self.

By Sania Mohan

UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF YOUR PERSONALITY AND EMBARK ON A TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY WITH THIS GAME-CHANGING BOOK!

 

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by your own reactions?  

Do you want to understand why you and others respond disproportionately to various situations?  

Are you seeking a way to identify your reactive behaviors in times of stress and gain control over your emotional responses?  

 

"The Enneagram" is just the guide you'll need to understand the 9 personality types, use them to find your path, unlock your full potential, and become your true self. Discover the power of the Enneagram, a dynamic personality system that unveils the intricacies of human behavior.   

 

If you're looking to kickstart your personal growth journey, become more self-aware, and navigate life's challenges with grace and authenticity, this guide is for you!  

Here's what you'll learn:  

• Self-Discovery: Uncover your true self as you explore each of the nine personality types, their strengths, and their potential pitfalls. Gain a deep understanding of your own motivations, fears, and longings, allowing you to make conscious choices that align with your values and aspirations.  
• Emotional Mastery: Identify your reactive behaviors and patterns, particularly in stressful situations. Learn effective strategies to regulate your emotions, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and transform your responses into ones that promote harmony and growth.  
• Relationship Insights: Understand how different personality types interact and influence one another. Discover the dynamics that can lead to conflicts and learn practical tools to navigate personal and professional relationships with empathy, compassion, and effective communication.  

And so much more!  

 

Imagine a life where triggers lose their power over you, where you respond to challenges with grace and resilience. Envision understanding yourself and others on a deeper level, forging meaningful connections, and navigating conflicts with wisdom and compassion.   

 

With "The Enneagram", you can embark on a transformative journey towards self-mastery and create a life of authenticity, purpose, and fulfillment.  

 

Begin the journey of self-discovery and start living a life that aligns with your true self by grabbing your copy today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sania Mohan
• Release date: Jul 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223019558

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The Enneagram

What You Need to Understand About the Nine Personality Types While Finding Your Path and Unlocking Your Full Potential on the Journey to Self-Discovery to Become Your True Self.

Sania Mohan

Copyright ©️ 2023 by Sania Mohan

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Contents

Introduction

1.How the Enneagram Personality System Works

2.The Helpful and Giving 2s

3.The Performing and Achieving 3s

4.The Artistic, Romantic, and Individualistic 4s

5.The Thinking and Investigative 5s

6.The Loyal and Skeptical Guardian 6s

7.The Enthusiastic and Optimistic 7s

8.The Challenging and Leading 8s

9.The Peacemaking and Mediating 9s

10.The Perfectionist and Reformer 1s

Afterword

Introduction

We are all unique. Categorizing us into personality types seems reductive and generalizing, even pointless. But personality systems don't need to tell us everything about ourselves. They need to give us a framework through which we can analyze our inclinations, understand our strengths and weaknesses, and chart a course toward self-discovery and realizing our potential.

Most human interactions are cordial, so it's rare to see certain sides of ourselves and others. We all have a major blind spot that can only be illuminated if we understand personality types. The ability to decipher personalities gives us a near-supernatural vision into the souls of those around us, but more importantly, into our own darkest, most hidden propensities.

Understanding personalities helps us see past the lies, defense mechanisms, and veils that we all wear, giving us the ability to truly connect with empathy and boldness.

Personality systems reveal human nature. We can use them to understand others and ourselves if we approach everything with curiosity as opposed to judgment.

There are dozens, perhaps more, personality systems that developed over the centuries (some date back millennia). The Enneagram of Personality is just one of them, but it's exceptional for reasons we will get into.

The word Enneagram is from the Greek ennea (nine) and gramma (meaning something that's either written or drawn). It is represented by a nine-point figure which serves as a visual diagram of this personality system.

The Enneagram of personality is rooted in antiquity, although scholars have been unable to pinpoint its precise origins. Evidence of its use has been found in ancient philosophical as well as spiritual writings of Buddhism, Sufism, and the Kabbalah.

Our modern understanding of the Enneagram was pioneered by the Bolivian spiritualist and philosopher Oscar Ichazo in the 1960s and 70s. It has since spread, and it's widely used today in self-improvement, coaching, corporate training, spirituality, and even in non-academic psychological analysis.

Ichazo strongly believed that spiritual development was only possible through understanding one's own motivations. The core idea that our motivations can be deciphered from our patterns of behavior is what distinguishes the Enneagram from other more academically inclined personality systems.

The Enneagram of personality may not be as cerebral or as scientifically based as other well-known systems like Myers-Briggs, The Big Five, or the HEXACO Model, but its simplicity makes it profoundly beneficial to regular people. When you understand it, you'll know why you behave as you do. You'll have better relationships because you'll see loved ones for who they truly are and keep your own rough edges in check. You'll put a face to your core fears and crippling weaknesses, and you'll conquer your limitations.

So, welcome to this journey of self-discovery – Let's learn everything about the Enneagram of Personality.

Chapter one

How the Enneagram Personality System Works

As humans, we are hardwired to survive and thrive. We, therefore, form personalities in response to the environment to which we are introduced as children.

Personalities are amalgamations of defensive, reflexive, coping, and other innate behavior or proclivities that we exhibit with the goal of survival. Our attempts at a young age to gain attention and to fit in often blossom into complex adaptive strategies that we employ later in life on autopilot.

Personality systems (in this case, the Enneagram) are meant to map out these proclivities in adherence to a meticulously constructed organizing principle.

Structure of the Enneagram

The Enneagram of personality is organized as follows: there are 9 basic personality types, grouped into 3 sets of 3, called triads. It's depicted as a circle with the numbers 1 to 9 listed equidistantly along its circumference. The number 9 is at the apex, and it's believed to represent the most common personality type.

Within the circle are straight arrows pointing from various numbers to other specific numbers.

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The 9 Basic Personality Types

The nine personality types are represented by the numbers 1 to 9. They are as follows:

Type 1: The Perfectionist, or the reformer. Idealistic, rational, dedicated, and reliable. Driven to do the right thing and make the world better,