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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Enneagram Personality Test (2019 rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

[Rerun] Is the enneagram personality test valid? Why is it so popular? Can it be used to help people improve their lives or is it just pseudoscience? Dr. Kirk Honda and Humberto explore these questions and more in the mini deep dive into enneagram. (Intro) The full episode is available to patrons of the podcast

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December 16, 2019

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0:00.0

So, Berto, many people have been asking us to do an episode about aniogram.

0:04.4

Lots of patrons, clinicians, laypeople, listeners, lots of excitement about anagram.

0:11.7

So what do you say we get into it, Berto?

0:14.0

Let's do it.

0:15.1

This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast.

0:17.0

I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda.

0:18.5

I'm a therapist and a professor.

0:20.1

Who are you, Wimberto? My name is Umberto Castaneda, and I grow dairy-free mushrooms. So I had never even heard of enneagram until, I don't know, maybe like a year ago when someone asked for us to talk about it. Have you heard of it before? I heard the word, and I thought it was something completely different.. I thought it was some medical, like, you know, like an angiogram, you know, like a... Yeah. Yeah. Andrograms. Isn't there also something called Ngrams or something? Ngrams. Oh, that was the other thing. I thought this maybe had something to do with Scientology. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was something like that.

0:54.4

Anyway.

0:55.5

And when I looked into it, I have discovered that Enneagram is just as popular or almost

1:01.5

as popular as Myers-Briggs.

1:03.5

I was surprised at how many people had actually known about it and had taken it.

1:09.1

Wow.

1:09.5

And I hadn't even heard about it until recently. And it's

1:13.3

only because of the listeners that I would have heard about it at all. And, you know, I've been in the

1:20.0

field 24 years, never heard of anyagram. And I've read, you know, hundreds of books on personality and none of them even mention it.

1:30.2

And yet, all these people out there are, you know, my sister, my friends, all the listeners

1:37.4

on Facebook, they've all heard about it. So let's get into a highly controversial theory.

1:43.7

On Reddit, someone asked about anagram, and they're like, so basically, for those who don't know,

1:50.8

aneogram is a, it's similar to Myers-Briggs.

1:53.1

It's a way of trying to determine your personality, basically.

1:56.5

Personality type.

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