The Path Between Us

Short Review: This is the third book I have read on the Enneagram this year. I have been skeptical about the enneagram, but I can see the value of it as a mental descriptive model. No personality test is perfect. Any type of people into a limited set of categories, no matter how many there are will be inadequate to describing everyone. But system that give descriptions that people find helpful are helpful to the extent that they give a language to help people both understand themselves and others.

Where The Path Between us is different from the previous two books I have read is that it is focused on relationships, understanding the Enneagram so that you can related to others better. I think that focus is helpful. It is limited because traditional Enneagram advice is to never type others but allow them to discover their type on their own. So relationships that use the advice in this book either have to try to type others or to have enough background to know other people's types. But even without specific typing of people, there is helpful advice about how you as a person (with a known type) tend to related to others (with a potentially unknown type).



My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-path-between-us/