Free Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide For Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self Drafted By Hannah Paasch Accessible As Mobi
god. This book.
Minus one star for the excruciating, try hard to be funny tone
Minus one star for her patronizing language.
Then she disclosed that she was a four, and everything made sense, Minus another star.
Plus one star for her spot on description of eights, specificallyw, “lightening up never occurred to them.
” Hence the fact that I write book reviews for fun
Spoken with the confidence of an, If youre like me, maybe youve struggled to find out which enneagram number you truly are, LOOK NO FURTHER! My family and I OBSESSED over this book this weekend, pouring hours into meaningful conversation working to better understand how we work as a family unit and how we are personally wired.
I gained so much more knowledge and appreciation for the enneagram after reading this book, It makes total sense now! Hannah, YOU ROCK! This is a hilarious and true look at the enneagram that is a MUST read! You're going to want to add this to your library as soon as possible! Thank you Harper One for my gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.
Obviously five, because its me, But also her central premise is so important, I may have cried a little reading the conclusion
YAY Well, shit,
Ya know, I think of myself as welllearned on the enneagram and then I open up Hannah's book and discover page after page of insight.
Millenneagram is some sort of bedazzled, cursefactory of gemstudded wisdom, I started learning this inwith Ian Morgan Cron amp Suzanne Stabile's The Road Back to You and then shortly after through a maze of websites and YouTube.
Then Suzanne's The Path Between Us I love Suzanne's teaching, I've learned so much. I was sobered to read Hannah's hardwon reflections on selfdiscovery and understanding, Absolutely worth reading, as a primer for the enneagram or as ancillary to what you already know,
I want to put some quotes in the review below, but before I selectively pull out some of my favorite bits I want to say a little about Hannah's writing style.
I've seen it critiqued in reviews, and that's precisely why I feel like I should say something, If you aren't familiar with Hannah, go look at her Twitter, If that's too much for you, you'll probably have complaints with the book, But, and I can't fucking stress this enough, you really shouldn't, The book is brilliant. The writing style is authentically the way she communicates and she doesn't tone it down, It's Hannah teaching as Hannah, As she writes towards the end: "Do you really think you exist only to reject your
urges and dreams Honestly, what would be the point of you being born so wildly unique, just to be tamed and homogenized and beaten down to size"
I'm reminded of something from a Levi the Poet poem "Resentment" he wrote: "Someone will love it because it's honest, and someone will hate it because it's crude" and I think that fits here.
But if that's a complaint, I hope you can get over it and see all the sparkle in this thing.
It shines.
Some favorite quotes:
"We cannot be fully seen and fully known by anyone else if we cannot fully see and fully know ourselves.
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"Coming home can be a rather long journey when you've never been there before, "
"Maybe there's no one right way to be a good person, and maybe there's no advisory board signing off on who does and doesn't deserve badges.
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"You cannot earn the love you need, " I loved this one. Its unflinching and frank, its hilarious and honest, and its SO GOOD, Its like the enneagram and Urban Dictionary got blended up together and this book came out, or like an old personality type got a new makeover, complete with tattoos and piercings and a sassy new outfit.
I have loved following Hannah on Twitter for a while, and am just so, so, so glad she poured her heart and soul into these pages for us to have and learn from and love forever.
I mean, anyone who calls enneagram Ones “The Machine” is someone who GETS IT, This one isnt for your grandma or your preteens, but its definitely for anyone who wants to dive deeper into who they are and how to be the best version of that self and who isnt afraid to get hit hard with the truth in the process.
Its feisty and fiery and fun and fresh and I loved it, loved it, loved it, reading vlog sitelink be/cJMTlJzI There were some good insights, I did like the breakdown of the wings and the instinctual variants, but the overall tone was too offputting.
I got a bit tired of the author talking about herself, And Im a, so I kind of get it, But it felt like she was leaning too hard into that stereotype,
Then towards the end the author ironically gets way too preachy about her own views on the divine and her issues with religion, and while her story is her story, it was an outofplace diatribe.
no rating Dumb profiteering courtesy of a tryhard, wouldbe hellraiser, Most annoying book of the year, Oh noooo I think the kindest thing I can say about this book is that it reads like a first draft that went completely unedited, directly to print.
I actually stopped during my reading to double check that it had not been selfpublished, Nope, HarperCollins put this out! The author seems like a nice and genuine person whose publisher completely dropped the ball although the book itself looks gorgeous and features beautiful graphic design.
In the space of two pages, ALL CAPS, asterisks, and italics were all used for emphasis, If we're going to take an overly familiar tone with the reader, are we going to spell it "henny" or "honey" I have addressed elsewhere the trend of randomly placed swears in selfhelp, which this book also suffers from.
The unedited, conversational tone made the book physically difficult to read, It's like the brain dump of a highly caffeinated person, That may work great on a blog but not apage book,
I think this is also a great lesson in not every concept needing to get a book deal.
I think in retrospect I can kind of see how this got pieced together, Paasch starts a hashtag about the enneagram, has a merch store, I think it's all really charming, Then the book deal gets offered, But where does it fit It's almost like the book was written to justify the merchandise But the book also has a completely different tone.
It can be selfserious but it almost seems like the author felt the need to shoehorn in these merch phrases in certain places.
It often comes out of nowhere and takes on an almost condescending, mocking tone as a result, which I don't think is intended.
And of course, when you get past all the surface issues and down to the meat, . . I just don't think the author has a very good understanding of the enneagram outside of her own number! I think she is really good at coming up with funny memes and jokes about the numbers.
I think this could have been a very entertaining book if it didn't take itself so seriously, It could have been a nice little gift book, As it stands, you're probably better off just following the author on Twitter which might just be the Millenneagram's intended purpose anyway.
I've been following Hannah on Twitter for years now, and I remember when the Millenneagram hashtag first emerged, If I'm totally honest Hannah, if you happen to read this, just know that I'm aand much harsher with myself, I was put off by how "onbrand" and buzzwordy a lot of it was, but I also couldn't miss that underneath that was some really poignant articulations of the Enneagram.
And not just poignant, but in some ways truly fresh and new, even to someone who's done a somewhat embarrassingly deep dive into it all.
Soon enough, I was eagerly awaiting new posts under the hashtag, but shortly after that gave up Twitter for a while and was surprised to see when I returned that a book deal was in the works! I happened to check Amazon a week or two after it was published, found a surprisingly good deal, and ordered it on a whim and I'm really glad for that!
As I mentioned, I've spent a good bit of time reading about the Enneagram both online and in books, and what I really appreciate most about Paasch's book is that it genuinely feels like it adds something vibrantly unique and worthwhile to the conversation.
While it's marketed as a sort of lay expression of the Enneagram so simple and straightforward that even a millennial can understand it, I don't think that's where the need is the fact that it's exploded in popularity among millennials in the pastyears speaks to its longstanding resonance or the impact.
But don't get me wrong, I think it's got a really powerful impact! Sure, the language is certainly less academic and much more colorful and she makes a point to include personal anecdotes and pop culture references, but I would say rather than that making it feel simpler or more accessible, it makes it feel more relatable and intimate and human.
An interesting phenomenon when reading other Enneagram writers is that their level of formality makes for a weird contrast you feel exposed but kept at a distance.
I would argue that the power of Paasch's hyperpersonal writing style down to the frequent secondperson narrative is that it shifts the aforementioned reading experience to help you feel seen and understood rather than just exposed because someone is holding your hand/peptalking/slapping you in the face.
And I found some real power in that! In fact, because of it, I feel like this book on its own has the potential to be a bit more catalyzing than a lot of the other more reflective, impersonal material.
And honestly, I also appreciated that the approach was so distinct in its irreverence some Enneagram writing takes itself awfully serious.
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Now that I've heralded the merits of the writing style, I will confess that it also inspired frequent eye rolls and there were points where her writer's voice felt grating and seemed to get in the way of the content.
I just wanted to say, "We get it, you're edgy and hip, chill out, ". But I guess you could say that's what makes it feel like a real person, which is hopefully high praise for a.
And I suppose the book works best as a starting point I'd argue a pretty good one for many in that it follows a pretty standard format and structure, going type by type and breaking them up into triads.
She does touch on the Instinctual Variants which is a bit more rare, and I definitely think this has some of the most nuanced, empathetic, and human descriptions ofs that I've ever seen, and some really great details fors as well.
I think my biggest unmet hope or desire from the book was a lack of exploration around the Enneagram's potential power for justice work and social transformation, which only emerged because she placed a unique emphasis on that in the intro and conclusion.
It offers a framing that bookends the endeavor, in some ways justifying what can feel like navalgazing with the merit of cultivating deep selfunderstanding and compassion that bears growth and creates opportunities for collective connection.
That's a great start and I suppose a justiceoriented outcome in its own right from that perspective, but I would have really loved if she'd included a section for each type that explicitly explored ways their strengths and weaknesses play into the pursuit of social justice that would have felt both really fresh and exciting and cohesive to her stated intentions.
As a whole, though, this is a wonderful addition to the canon of Enneagram material and adds something really valuable to the conversation.
It's also genuinely fun to read, which is a plus! Some of it I really, really loved the content was solid and a few times I found myself scrambling to relisten to a section to jot down great insights.
I found the tone and especially the language wearying, . . Im not opposed to a bit of salty language and have used a word or two in print and conversation.
But it was excessive to the point of distracting, Funny, insightful. Very Millennial. Buckle up, folks. Its time to jump in, embrace your inner self, and release the things that are holding you back from wholeness.
Enter the Millenneagram.
The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system that has a sneaky way of revealing who we are and why we do the things we do.
Using nine types, it gets to the root of our fears and motivations, unveiling our innermost selves,
Millenneagram reinvigorates the Enneagram by putting a modern spin on the classic nine types, Hannah Paasch, creator of the popular millenneagream threads on Twitter, reveals how this system acts as a map toward our authentic selves.
For Hannah, the Enneagram is not about changing who we are, but rather nurturing and loving our whole selves, even the pain in the ass qualities.
“Only from this position of wholeness, rootedness in who we are, what we believe, and what kind of story we are writing, will we be able to act bravely for the sake of justice and humanity to approach our fckedup world with the grounded courage it asks of us.
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With her trademark irreverent humor and empowering affirmations, Millenneagram reframes the classic Enneagram types with a fresh perspective and new names that cut right to the chase:
The Machine
“Im an Enneagramand I Can Fix This!”
The Parent
“Im an Enneagramand Can I Get You a Refill”
The Winner
“Im an Enneagramand All I Do Is Win.
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The Tortured Artist
“Im an Enneagramand Im Deeper Than You, ”
The Detective
“Im an Enneagramand I Read an Article About That, ”
The Oracle
“Im an Enneagramand Im Loyal as Fuck, ”
The Party
“Im an Enneagramso This Might Be Vodka In My Mug, ”
The Dragon
“Im an Enneagramso Nice Try, Bitch, ”
The Wallflower
“Im an Enneagramso Lets Just All Chill Out, Dude, ”
A powerful tool for selfdiscovery that doesnt take itself too seriously, Millenneagram is an invitation for introspection and growth.
Hannahs revamped Enneagram goes beyond simply identifying with a type: it gives us permission to be our truest, enoughasis, badass selves.
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