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The fact that you picked up this book and are reading it may indicate that you’re also on a quest — a quest for your own development or a quest based on your profession. Maybe you’re looking for a tool that can help you, your customer, or your organization and employees. This quest might have many different reasons or goals, but you’re reading this Enneagrams For Dummies to gain insights quickly as well as an overview of whether the Enneagram might mean something to you — and if so, how.

I tell you in the main text what the Enneagram is and what it has to offer — the model and method side, and the psychology and spiritual side. Those are the perspectives from which I wrote this book.

The Enneagram is nothing more or less than one of the many means of transportation on the journey to development. It’s a tool for self-management. For me personally, this tool has helped me so much that I enjoy helping other people benefit from it as much as I do. Everyone is different, however, and what works for me might not for work for someone else. Perhaps the most important advice is to go discover what works for you!

The path that the Enneagram offers is learning to relax your type and welcoming your true self and the higher virtues you have within. At the end of the path, your ego or your type is no longer in charge. The Enneagram provides a path to life based on awareness. You then have knowledge of yourself and your own limitations and qualities, and with knowledge of others, but also becoming more receptive to what is there and what’s present in you and in your life — a life with more balance, more tranquility, more joy, more wisdom, more peace, and more love.