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Like many of my contemporaries, I try to fit people into whichever boxes I can as a temporary means to an end. The 'end' here is consciousness; being aware of myself, my motivations, bringing the unconscious forward, such that I no longer rely on personality types, star signs, and even benign symbolic boxes of my own that will never be studied or written on because they're even more ridiculous than something like this, the enneagram. This 'end' towards which I am hopelessly, endlessly striving is so far away that a book like this, 'The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life' actually feels quite helpful. I would go as far as to call this book illuminating in understanding, as the title suggests, Myself and the Others in My Life. That being said, I am the type of person who gets tremendous satisfaction when I believe I have placed someone in the 'right box'. One day, I hope to see these boxes as arbitrary. I got this book for my roommate for Christmas after forcing them to take an online enneagram test and then took this book from their room the following week and read only the sections that applied to me and the negative sections that applied to my enemies. I do not recommend this book for everyone. I do not recommend this book for most people. Most of all, I do not recommend the people who love this book.