Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the Enneagram is a centuries-old categorization tool that classifies human personalities into nine interconnected personality types. It is a powerful tool for self-observation, maximizing your strengths, and improving your relationships.
Learn—through in-depth descriptions, illustrations, and more—how to assess how you think, feel, and experience life, so that you can correctly identify which of the nine types you are.
- Type 1: The Improver/Reformer/Perfectionist (Life Strategy: "I must be perfect and do what is right.")
- Type 2: The Helper/Giver/Befriender (Life Strategy: "I must be helping, caring, and needed.")
- Type 3: The Achiever/Performer/Motivator (Life Strategy: "I must be impressive and look accomplished and successful.")
- Type 4: The Individualist/Romantic/Artist (Life Strategy: "I must be understood uniquely as I am.")
- Type 5: The Investigator/Observer/Theorist (Life Strategy: "I must be knowledgeable and equipped.")
- Type 6: The Loyalist/Skeptic/Guardian (Life Strategy: "I must be secure and safe.")
- Type 7: The Enthusiast/Optimist/Epicurean (Life Strategy: "I must be enjoying myself and avoiding pain.")
- Type 8: The Challenger/Protector/Advocate (Life Strategy: "I must be strong and outside the control of others.")
- Type 9: The Peacemaker/Mediator/Reconciler (Life Strategy: "I must maintain peace and calm.")
Authors Liz Carver and Josh Green, creators of the hugely popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype, help you discover how knowing your type—and the types of those around you—can affect your daily life, your decisions, and your relationships with others, and how to use this wisdom to live life with more clarity, peace, and insight than you ever thought possible.
So what's your enneatype? Find out today and get started on the journey to better understand your world, yourself, and your place within it.
Liz Carver and Josh Green run one of the most popular Enneagram accounts on social media, @justmyenneatype (justmyenneatype.com). Liz is a designer and the director of communication at Eastbrook Church in Wisconsin, and Josh is a campus minister for InterVarsity USA.
The Enneagram: What It Is and What It Isn't
Type ONE: Improver/The Reformer//Perfectionist
Type TWO: The Helper/Giver/Befriender
Type THREE: The Achiever/Performer/Motivator
Type FOUR: The Individualist/Romantic/Artist
Type FIVE: The Investigator/Observer/Theorist
Type SIX: The Loyalist/Skeptic/Guardian
Type SEVEN: The Enthusiast/Optimist/Epicurean
Type EIGHT: Challenger/The Protector/Advocate
Type NINE: The Peacemaker/Mediator/Reconciler
The Way Forward
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index