Hello and welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where your two favorite personalities talk about philosophy and its connection to everyday life.
I'm Ellie Anderson.
And I'm David Pena Guzman.
Personality tests are everywhere.
With simple Google search,
you can find a BuzzFeed quiz that will tell you which character from friends you are.
Your workplace might even require that you take a Myers Briggs type indicator test in order to determine like what kind of vibe you're going to bring into the workplace.
And I have to say, David, right here at the top of this episode,
I was completely obsessed with personality tests when I was like a late teenager to young adult.
This was this was the college era for me.
I read so many books about the Myers-Briggs personality typology or the type indicator,
we'll get into that later,
and why it may not be a personality typology, but that is neither here nor there for the moment.
Enneagram was absolutely one of my favorites.
And I would like read these books.
There was one book about the Enneagram called Are You My Type, Am I Yours?
And it was about how different Enneagram types, you know,
relate to each other and what potential sources of conflict may emerge.
And this was like my Bible