Russ Hudson
Co-founder, The Enneagram Institute · 1 appearance on the record.
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Russ Hudson is an Enneagram scholar and the co-founder of The Enneagram Institute. Alongside Don Richard Riso, he co-developed the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator and co-authored bestsellers including The Wisdom of the Enneagram.
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Hudson: 1960s infant study mapped nine temperaments exactly matching the Enneagram
“There was a major study of temperament in infants done at New York University back in, she was early 19 sixties by two famous psychologists, Thomas and Chess. And in that study, just Looking at it empirically, they boiled it down to nine basic patterns of temp…”
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Hudson: Core Enneagram temperament is established in infancy or earlier
“What we can say is that, that the basic template Is there in temperament? Meaning it's, we're born with it. We don't know if it's genetic or if it's forms while we're still in the womb, but it's very early. In other words, we're sort of set on a certain track …”
Hudson: People cannot change their dominant Enneagram type
“I don't think people can do anything about what their dominant type is, but what we can do is work at freeing ourself up from the scary parts of it and opening to the beautiful parts of it.”
Hudson: Eliminating Ego Is a Mistake; Over-Identification Is the Real Problem
“The problem is not that we have an ego, and I am not one of those people who goes around saying, you gotta get rid of your ego, you gotta kill the ego. I think that's nuts. I think that, you know, even the people saying those kind of things have an ego. The pr…”
Hudson: Enneagram explores deeper core motivations than Myers-Briggs
“And the Enneagram, in a sense, we're going into the core motivations. So it goes very deep. It's not like Myers-Briggs or some of the others, which is no diss to those systems. It's just that the Enneagram is looking at a deeper Layer of human motivation.”
Hudson: Unlike North Americans, people in Asia avoid Enneagram Type Four
“This is not true, by the way, in Asia. They don't want to be fours in Asia.”
Hudson: People Have an Enneagram Type, but Are Not Their Type
“You have a type, most definitely, but you are not a type. It's not who you are. It's not what you are.”
Hudson: 1960s infant study mapped nine temperaments exactly matching the Enneagram
“There was a major study of temperament in infants done at New York University back in, she was early 19 sixties by two famous psychologists, Thomas and Chess. And in that study, just Looking at it empirically, they boiled it down to nine basic patterns of temp…”
Hudson: Environmental trauma determines how rigidly people stick to personality defenses
“How much I'm wedged into my type, how much I'm stuck in that stuff is a function of nurture, because if I'm growing up in a crazy, difficult, scary, heartbreaking environment, and that's always going to be true to some degree, but if it's a lot, then, of cours…”
Hudson: Breaking Personality Fixation Unlocks the Capacities of All Enneagram Types
“As we get liberated from being Identified with the pattern. As we get less stuck in it, the good sides of all of the nine points, which also represent human capacities or talents or gifts, start to come into play more and more.”
Hudson: True confidence arises organically from being somatically embodied
“Organically, confidence arises out of our relationship with our body. Like, the more I feel embodied, the more I feel I'm here, I feel like I belong here. Like, it's, in a sense, right for me to be here, or I have a right to be here, and it's not an inner deba…”
Hudson: Brain scan research shows mindfulness reactivates neuroplasticity
“What they discovered in doing these brain scans was something they did not expect, was that
The group that was practicing mindfulness had good results in terms of their OCD, but also that it seemed to reactivate what psychologists call neuroplasticity.”
Hudson: Human minds run on idle nonsense 98% of the time
“I think people would quickly realize no one's thinking. No one's thinking about anything. Our minds are on idle, just running and regurgitating the same nonsense
Over and over and over, 98% of the time, and I'm being kind.”
Hudson: Meaning is felt in the heart rather than reasoned intellectually
“Meaning is not cognitive. You can argue endlessly in your head about what's meaningful, but if it doesn't land in your heart, you don't get it.”
Hudson: Enneagram Type Fives seek control over social interaction duration, not isolation
“It's not true that fives don't want any human contact, but they want to be in control of the duration and amount of it.”
Hudson: Real freedom is overcoming egoic impulses, not maximizing endless choices
“We will be dissatisfied by what looks like freedom to us, which on the ego is having more options, having more choices, being able to do whatever I want, which is, I call that lovingly my inner two-year-old, you know. But real freedom, as one of my teachers us…”
Hudson: Present Anger Lasts Seconds While Repressed Anger Lasts a Lifetime
“So anger, if we're present with anger, it only lasts a few seconds. When we're not present with anger, it can last our whole life.”
Hudson: Violent Outbursts Indicate Lack of Connection With Underlying Anger
“The people going around smashing things and attacking people are not in touch with their anger. It's going instantly into a behavior, and that's how they've learned to control it, but that's not the same as being with it.”
Hudson: Processed Anger Transmutes Into Empowerment and Truth-Telling
“When anger is presence, it transmutes into empowerment and confidence and the ability to take a stand, to have a voice, to speak your truth. People who can't be in touch with their anger have trouble with all of those things.”
Hudson: Presencing Anxiety Transmutes It Into Heightened Awakeness and Focus
“When we presence anxiety, and we're with it in the body, with the heart, with the mind, to whatever degree we can, it transmutes into awakeness, into paying attention.”
Hudson: Narcissism Functions as a Defensive Inflation Against Deep Heartbreak
“People are more narcissistic, have big wounds and heartbreak around their lovability, their value, their sense of worth, and so they need to create an inflation as a defense against that.”
Hudson: Masterful communication requires developing rational, reassuring, and authentic styles
“If we're going to be skillful in human communication and working with people, we need to develop two other languages. We might kind of, usually people are really good at one and kind of okay at another, and one, they just don't know that language. So if you, y…”
Hudson: People Want Partners to Support Them How Their Own Type Supports Others
“People, when they're having difficulties, are always hoping that someone will show up for them in the way they would for us when they're at their best.”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| #91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence | Sep 1, 2020 | 1h 25m |