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Authors' Notefor the Second EditionAt the time of this writing, Personahty Types has established itself as a fundamental source book and as a classic in the field of Enneagram studies. It is one of the best-selling and most-translated Enneagram books in the world, having sold over 150,000 copies in the United States alone. Therefore many might wonder why we have wanted to revise it.The principal answer is that the Enneagram is a work in progress, and as such, both the breadth and the depth of our understanding of this remarkable system are constantly expanding. We are continually finding better terminology, making new discoveries, formulating more profound questions, uncovering new areas for investigation, and seeing more fertile connections with other bodies of knowledge. The possibility for deeper insight into human nature is always present: human nature is open-ended, and so our work with the Enneagram is ongoing.The Enneagram is a work in progress also in the sense that we are approaching the material in the spirit of scientific inquiry there is no "Enneagram bible" or "sacred scripture" that has been passed down to us to which we can refer. Unfortunately, the first edition of Personality Types was perhaps a source of the mistaken idea that there was a body of knowledge about the Enneagram