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As you can read in later chapters, the Enneagram has different movements and instructors. Many of them have given names to the individual types. As a result, each type has different names in the literature. This is an attempt to express the essence of, or the most important characteristic of, a type. It can happen, of course, that different instructors each find another aspect of the type so important that they use it as a name. So the labels don’t necessarily coincide, though the descriptions mostly remain the same.

Some people may already develop an idea of their type when they recognize themselves in a certain name. You use the different names for the Enneagram types as archetypes for finding your type. In Figure 4-1, you see boxes with designations for the various types. Ask yourself these questions:

 Is there one or more box in which you (strongly) recognize yourself?

 Are there boxes in which you don’t recognize yourself, which you can exclude from the start?

FIGURE 4-1: Do you recognize yourself?