The Good, The Bad, and The Enneagram
A not so critical review
Depending on your location, friend group, career, and spiritual leanings, you’ve probably at least heard about the Enneagram. I first heard about it on my favorite new age/comedy podcast, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes and they made a compelling case. Being a professor, I have since seen it spread like wildfire through wide-eyed college students, many of whom are freshman dying for someone to just give them an identity already. Don’t worry kids. Same.
So, as any good lover of humans should do, I decided to dive in and make sure that this wasn’t a cult… or at least, not a dangerous one? At first glance, it seemed to be no different than the other personality tests peddled by corporate trainers and leadership retreat leaders like the Myers-Briggs, Four Temperaments (Also known as the Harry Potter Houses), Strengthsfinder, VARK, and all the rest, but there’s something unique about both the Enneagram’s implementation and reception these days. Being adopted seemingly by everyone from straight-forward business professionals to Zodiac fanatics alike, there’s something, just, different about the Enneagram.
