In my last post, I shared an overture of the Enneagram personality model. But it’s time to get real and get personal. The truth is, I sometimes struggle with this tool because in studying it, I learned that I’m not who I thought I was.

In some circles, when the topic of the Enneagram comes up, people get all excited and start to rattle off numbers. With others, there’s a quizzical and skeptical look that emerges, and they might ask “Isn’t that a personality-cult-thing?” And still others respond with a blank look that tells me they have no idea what it is. So let’s give some basic info, dispel some myths, and start to build a common understanding.