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A review by bickleyhouse
The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self by Ian Morgan Cron
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
3.0
In some ways, this book is better than its predecessor, The Road Back to You, and in some ways it is not. The fact that I've only given it three stars is not necessarily the book's nor the author's fault.
After reading The Road Back, I was pretty sure that I was a 4w5 on the Enneagram scale. Not too long into The Story of You, I wasn't so sure, any more. The problem is, the water just got muddier, the more I read.
The things that are better about this one is that Cron takes what he wrote in the first book and expands on it, so its not just a regurgitation of the same information, as I feared it would be. In fact, had it been that, I would have DNF'ed the book.
This book has more stories by many people representing all of the different numbers on the scale. Some of the people I am familiar with, some of them I am not. Quite a few of them seem to be musicians and/or actors. Cron, himself, is a Dove award winning songwriter, which I did not know before reading these books. I've looked up some songs that he wrote and don't recognize any of them. But that's neither here nor there.
Just as in the first book, he begins with number eight and ends with number seven. It seems to me that different aspects of each number are highlighted in this volume, which may be what confused me a little bit. But I came away from this reading thinking that I'm more of a 9w1. 9 is the peacemaker, and 1 is the perfectionist/improver. Oh, yes . . . he also calls some of them by different names in this book. But that's okay, because, if you look up the enneagram diagram online, you will find a variety of names for each number, and different names for the triads, as well.
And that's the thing about enneagrams, anyway. It is, at best, "psuedo-science."
But the bottom line of Cron's writing is improving or healing ourselves from a false story that we have come to believe about ourselves, over time. There's nothing wrong with that. What I do struggle with, though, is that the issue always seems to come from our parents, and I cringe whenever I hear that. For those of us who have been parents, we are well aware that we have made mistakes with our children. I mean, there is no real "handbook," is there? Babies don't come with owner's manuals. We do the best we can with the tools that we have been given.
But the truth is, those tools are faulty. Maybe blame Adam and Eve. They're the ones who messed everything up for us.
I plan to spend just a little more time on this subject, and then probably be done with it. It was probably a mistake to read two books in a row on the subject, especially by the same author. But I have learned some things, and that's good.
After reading The Road Back, I was pretty sure that I was a 4w5 on the Enneagram scale. Not too long into The Story of You, I wasn't so sure, any more. The problem is, the water just got muddier, the more I read.
The things that are better about this one is that Cron takes what he wrote in the first book and expands on it, so its not just a regurgitation of the same information, as I feared it would be. In fact, had it been that, I would have DNF'ed the book.
This book has more stories by many people representing all of the different numbers on the scale. Some of the people I am familiar with, some of them I am not. Quite a few of them seem to be musicians and/or actors. Cron, himself, is a Dove award winning songwriter, which I did not know before reading these books. I've looked up some songs that he wrote and don't recognize any of them. But that's neither here nor there.
Just as in the first book, he begins with number eight and ends with number seven. It seems to me that different aspects of each number are highlighted in this volume, which may be what confused me a little bit. But I came away from this reading thinking that I'm more of a 9w1. 9 is the peacemaker, and 1 is the perfectionist/improver. Oh, yes . . . he also calls some of them by different names in this book. But that's okay, because, if you look up the enneagram diagram online, you will find a variety of names for each number, and different names for the triads, as well.
And that's the thing about enneagrams, anyway. It is, at best, "psuedo-science."
But the bottom line of Cron's writing is improving or healing ourselves from a false story that we have come to believe about ourselves, over time. There's nothing wrong with that. What I do struggle with, though, is that the issue always seems to come from our parents, and I cringe whenever I hear that. For those of us who have been parents, we are well aware that we have made mistakes with our children. I mean, there is no real "handbook," is there? Babies don't come with owner's manuals. We do the best we can with the tools that we have been given.
But the truth is, those tools are faulty. Maybe blame Adam and Eve. They're the ones who messed everything up for us.
I plan to spend just a little more time on this subject, and then probably be done with it. It was probably a mistake to read two books in a row on the subject, especially by the same author. But I have learned some things, and that's good.