Everything Enneagram Book: Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Business (Everything (Self-Help)) [Paperback]

Susan Reynolds (Author)

Book Description

Series: Everything (Self-Help) | Publication Date: July 17, 2007

Each of us wears our personality like a disguise-but with the Enneagram, you can strip away that mask, and reveal your true self. A timeless tool used by corporate trainers, counselors, and mental health professionals, the Enneagram defines nine basic personality types. Which are you?

• Evangelical Idealist
• People Pleaser
• King of the Hill
• Creative Seeker
• Masterful Hermit
• Loyal Guardian
• Optimistic Dreamer
• The Dominator
• Peaceful Lamb

In The Everything Enneagram Book, you'll learn what your type is, how it affects your perception of yourself and others, and how you can use that knowledge to best effect. Author Susan Reynolds' Jungian approach helps you apply the secrets of the Enneagram to your relationships, your work, even your love life. With this engaging, enlightening guide, you'll gain the self-awareness you need to transform every aspect of your life-and become the person you were born to be!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Veteran journalist and author Susan Reynolds is a long-time proponent of the Enneagram. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Psychology and remains fascinated by personality theory, mythology, and archetypes. Ms. Reynolds is a Four (creative seeker) with a heavy Five (masterful hermit) wing. She lives in Pembroke, MA.

Technical Reviewer Clarence Thomson, M.A., is the author of Parables and the Enneagram and coauthor of Out of the Box: Coaching with the Enneagram and Enneagram Applications. He has been teaching the Enneagram internationally for more than years, and was a featured speaker at three International Enneagram Conferences. Mr. Thomas has a master's degree in theology and another in social communications, from the University of Ottawa and Universite de St. Paul. He lives in Louisburg, KS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (July 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598692763
• ISBN-13: 978-1598692761
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Founder of Literary Cottage (www.literarycottage.com), Susan Reynolds has been a professional author, editor, and ghost writer for 25 years. She began her career at Fairchild Publications in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. She moved on to writing and editing for magazines and was Founding Editor for a women's magazine in California. More recently, Ms. Reynolds has authored, co-authored, book doctored, compiled, or edited more than 20 non-fiction books. She currently writes two blogs on Psychology Today's website ("Prime Your Gray Cells" and "Looking Back"), and she is currently working on a memoir about a year spent in Paris, as well as a novel.

Books Authored or Edited by Susan Reynolds include:

Change Your Shoes, Change Your Life (2005)
Mr. Cheap's Guide to Wine (2006) - Edited
Everything Personal Finance for Single Mothers (2006)
Everything Enneagram (2007)
The Portable Italian Mother (2009)
One-Income Household (2009)
250 Personal Finance Questions for Single Mothers (2009)
My Teacher is My Hero (2008)
365 Ways to Boost Your Brainpower (2008) - Edited
365 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism (2009) - Edited
Monster Boss (2008) - Edited
The Only Writing Service: Grant Writing (2009) - Edited
Today I Made a Difference (2009) - Edited
Yes We Can: 365 Ways to Make America a Better Place - Collaborator
My Mom Is My Hero (2009)
My Dad Is My Hero (2009)
Woodstock Revisited (2009)
My Dog Is My Hero (2010)
Size Sexy (2009) - Edited
Sordid Las Vegas - (2010) co-authored and edited
Train Your Brain to Get Happy (2011)
Train Your Brain to Get Rich (fall, 2011)
Healthiest You Ever (fall, 2011)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best enneagram resource I have found, February 8, 2008

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jodic "Jodic" (Statesboro, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything Enneagram Book: Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Business (Everything (Self-Help)) (Paperback)

I have over a dozen books on the enneagran, and this one offeres the best explanations, in an easy to absorb format.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, October 5, 2008

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M. Patton "Shamanic Princess" (Covington, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything Enneagram Book: Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Business (Everything (Self-Help)) (Paperback)

I like the book and it is a great tool to use for getting to know yourself. I gave it 4 stars because it does come across as overly negative...however...I guess that is the punch some people need to make changes. All in all I really liked the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Self-awareness tool Ive ever come across, February 8, 2011

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This review is from: Everything Enneagram Book: Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Business (Everything (Self-Help)) (Paperback)

To begin I will say that I am a Social Psychology graduate with some graduate studies focusing on relationships and personalities. I have taken at least 30+ personality tests and they all seem the same. Then I took this. It is SCARY how accurate things become.

Format: You take the 20-30 minute test in the beginning, make sure you do it right! Read a paragraph (very bland like the other tests). Read the page long version of your number (now its a little accurate). Then read the 15 page chapter on your number. This is where it gets weird.

I have OVER 40 names of my friends (in my back cover to remember) who have taken this test, with number 6 Loyal Guardian being the least and 5 Masterful Hermit being the most. They all said it was 90%+ accurate. Most are between 20-28 and a few were parents but all agreed it fit them. Around 5 went on here and bought it because they were so creeped out.

The best part is in every chapter where it tells how your background made you develop into your number (some event specific!).

Bonus stuff in this that I couldn't find in other versions were "What it's like to love (insert your number)", "What it's like to have a (insert number) parent/child"

The best $12 I have ever spent. PERIOD.