Spotify finally tried to guess my Enneagram type.
Oh my, Spotify/
I’ve been waiting for this day. I heard about this Spotify feature a few months ago, but it wasn’t available on my account yet. Yesterday, at long last, I was scrolling around Spotify, and there it was. What’s my Musical Enneagram?
Seeing the Enneagram applied in contexts like this sometimes gives me (metaphorical) hives – mostly because it spreads more bad information as companies or influencers try to make a quick buck or get new followers.
But I also think things like this are fun, as long as people don’t actually believe that things like your playlist, or your design tastes, or your preferred coffee drink are solid ways to find out your core Enneatype.
Humans love to hear about themselves, and stuff like this probably actually gets some people interested in the Enneagram. From there, they might find a good resource and go deeper. But at this level, things stay superficial. And that is antithetical to doing real work with the Enneagram. That’s also why Enneagram critics who haven’t done the deeper work think it’s shallow, pigeon-holing, and fake. Hence my mixed feelings.
So yes, it’s fun. Whoever wrote this copy included the phrase “playfully guess my Enneagram type.” If this does get a few people into deeper work, it’s probably worth it. The danger is stopping here, or thinking this is an accurate way of typing.
If you want to hear more about the typing process and find out about the Embodiment Tradition I teach, there are still spots available at this Saturday’s workshop. And as a bonus, I’ll even share my own playlists I created for the types with attendees.
Plus, if you join Saturday, your registration fee will be applied to the next Level 1 Certification, which starts this summer.
So…how did Spotify type me?
