What Drives Each Enneagram Type
The Core Fears and Desires Beneath the Nine Personalities
There is a single engine running beneath everything you do -- a fear you are always quietly steering away from, and a desire you are always quietly steering toward. You feel it in the moments you can't quite explain: why you can't let a thing go, why you brace before a phone rings, why praise lands warm one day and hollow the next. The Enneagram's deepest gift is that it names that engine. This book takes the nine types down to their root: the core fear and the core desire that organize a whole personality. You'll learn how a single fear and its matching want quietly shape a life, then walk all nine drivers in turn -- grouped by the body, the heart, and the head -- each rendered vividly enough that one of them will feel uncomfortably like home. And you'll see why naming your own "why" is not just self-knowledge but the first loosening of its grip. This is the book that shows you the motive under the behavior -- yours, and the people you love.