This book, The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile, has played a pivotal role in my life since this past summer. As a crew member at Camp Glisson for the second half of the summer, I had the opportunity to have deep interactions with the other people on staff with me. As we completed strenuous jobs during 16-hour days and learned how to support one another, our individual passions began to shine through. My co-worker Will introduced me to a method of analyzing people that helped him understand people’s motives, passions, and the way they treated other people. This book categorizes people into 9 personality types. Reading this account on people’s personalities has helped me better understand the people around me and the motivations behind their actions. In everyday situations, using the enneagram mindset allows me to have much more patience with everyone because I try to actively understand their personality, which is something I have always tried to actively accomplish. I discovered the motivations of not only those around me, but also my own inner workings and why I act the way I do. I am a type 9, the Peacemaker, whose deepest desires are inner peace, for those around them to be content, and for inertia in their day to day lives. I dove deeper into the reason why I am subconsciously passive and actively reject emotional and spiritual discomfort. All thanks to my co-worker Will, I have had a fresh perspective on everyone I encounter since the discovery of this system on personality analysis, a skill that I hope will translate to both my writing skills and my interpersonal skills throughout my experiences this year.