Corporate HR

4/4/2025 10:48 am

I was speaking with Paul Hedderman the other night on one of his Zoom meetings and was reminded of a funny story about working in a coporate sales job. The HR team had bought into the Enneagram program. If you’re not familiar, it’s a personality typing system that describes nine interconnected personality types, each with unique motivations, fears, and behavioral patterns, offering insights into understanding oneself and others. Everyone in the company had to take this test in order to “learn about ourselves and each other.”

Of course, you’re not learning about the infinite, limiteless, actual Self, but rather the limited egoic self. Upon completing the test, everyone was eager to tell everyone else about themselves. Imagine a corporate software company where everyone is going cubicle to cubicle discussing themselves as a series of numbers derrived from a handful of situational questions.

This was about 10 years ago, and back then, I found it comical that we even needed a test to tell us about ourselves. I mean, who should know ourselves better than ourselves? That blew my mind. Now, after years hearing the nonduality message, it is even more hilarious to think about. A bunch of non-ego’s running around telling each other about their ego.