Episode Description

Typing is one of the most critical aspects of the Enneagram, and yet, mistyping is rampant. In this episode, we explain why this is case and what we can do about it. We also explore the one Type that is more likely to mistype than any other Type, and give you a Type by Type run through of how each Type approaches the Enneagram. What we find is that how we approach the Enneagram is often very revealing of our Type.

Podcast Hosts: Rasanath Das and Hari Prasada Das

Highlights

• [1:30] Enneagram typing as analogous to going to a doctor to get a diagnosis 

• [3:00] Mistyping is rampant

• [4:00] The obstacles to typing: the ego and the casual approach to typing

• [5:30] Rasanath originally mistyped himself because he didn’t like someone who he knew that was a Type 3

• [6:30] The stereotyping that is present in the Enneagram world

• [7:00] Our Upbuild partner Michael Sloyer initially mistyping himself as a Type 8, even though he’s a 3, because of locking in on a particular feature of the 8

• [10:00] Richard Rohr’s Discovering the Enneagram

• [13:30] CS Lewis’ quote: “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth…”

• [17:00] The Type 3 as especially prone to mistyping 

• [17:30] The Type 3 propensity to mold myself to whatever is valued and to be chameleonic

• [19:30] The most common mistyping of 3s thinking they are 7s

• [20:30] The Type 9 propensity to see themselves as all types

• [21:00] The Type 6 propensity to doubt their typing and the Enneagram framework

• [21:30] The Type 4 propensity to think that they can’t be reduced to one number

• [22:00] The Type 5 propensity to think that more rigor is needed

• [22:30] The Type 8 propensity to knock down the Enneagram system

• [23:50] The importance of the body language