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Summary: A workbook for using the Enneagram Personality model
Review: The Stanford Enneagram Discovery Inventory and Guide is a great book. Actually, it is more of a workbook than another extensive text of Enneagram knowledge. Before discovering this workbook I had been exposed to the Enneagram through a multi-week course and several extensive texts on the topic. I had read or heard lots of Enneagram details which never coalesced into an understanding of how to use Enneagram knowledge in my life. This workbook is helping me become aware of some of the systematic aspects of my habits. I am a 9 type and am becoming aware of my habit of putting other's agendas and priorities above the agenda and priorities that are best for my well being -- I developed this succinct understanding with 20 minutes study of this workbook. If you are a student of the Enneagram, this book will surely add somethig valuable to your understanding or use of the Enneagram model. If you are not a student of the Enneagram - check it out, its a good system for understaning yourself and others....
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Summary: Good for what it is, but...
Review: You are asked to read 9 personality type descriptions, pick 3 that could be you, then review and finally pick your specific type. Most of the book is dedicated to describing each of the nine types and so in deciding which type is yours you will probably only be looking at 3 of these detailed descriptions. This means that of the book's 100 pages, you will look at very few of those and be done with it in a couple of hours!!I had difficulty picking my type out of the set of 3 candidates, and the book is terribly indequate in this situation. It tells you to find someone who knows you well and then have them go through the same process that you just did. Good luck finding someone who knows you as well as you know yourself! Maybe if you are lucky enough to have been in a good close marriage for over 10 years. And if you can find that person, will they be willing to spend that much time just to help you determine your enneagram type? Hmmmm... For me this wasn't going to work, so I had to just put the book away for a couple of days and then came back to it fresh and went through it again. Then I found my type. But the authors should have anticipated this problem and gave more help for it. Really! There's a grand total of 3 pages describing how to use the book to pick your type! Other than my difficulty, however, the book does a great job describing the 9 types. One thing I am still a bit confused on is why some books use different names for some of the types; I guess they haven't standardized the enneagram yet.
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