🌿 Type One vs Type Six
TL;DR: What’s the Core Difference?
Type One is driven by a need to be good and do what’s right, with a strong inner critic and personal sense of duty.
Type Six is driven by a need for safety and support, often scanning for danger and seeking certainty through loyalty or preparation.
✍️ In-Depth Comparison
Ones and Sixes can look alike on the surface — responsible, hardworking, rule-following, and often anxious when things feel out of control. They’re both highly principled and tuned in to potential problems, which makes them easy to confuse. But they’re scanning for very different things.
Type One is primarily guided by moral clarity — a strong internal compass that tells them what’s right, what’s wrong, and what needs fixing. When they feel anxious, it’s usually tied to a fear of being bad or doing something incorrectly. Their self-control is rooted in guilt, and their structure comes from a need to live with integrity.
Type Six, by contrast, is scanning for external threats. Their radar is focused on what could go wrong and who they can trust to help them through it. Their anxiety often centers around uncertainty, betrayal, or instability — not moral failure, but danger (real or imagined). Sixes seek support systems, while Ones rely on their own inner structure.
Your notes phrase it perfectly:
“Ones plan for control. Sixes plan to feel safe.”
Ones are more linear in their thinking and actions. Sixes often loop in doubt, checking and re-checking whether something is safe or supported.
Sixes tend to test loyalty; Ones tend to test standards.
In stress, Ones often get critical — either toward themselves or others — because something feels out of alignment. Sixes become more reactive or suspicious, spinning out in worst-case-scenario thinking.
If you’re stuck between these two types, ask yourself:
Do I feel more unsettled when things are morally off (One), or when things feel unpredictable or unsupported (Six)?
Is my inner voice focused on being good, or being safe?
✅ Quick Spot-the-Difference Table
Question to Ask Yourself📌 Type One📌 Type SixWhat drives me?A need to be right, improve, and do what’s justA need to feel safe, supported, and preparedWhat kind of anxiety do I feel?Guilt about failing moral standardsFear of unpredictability, danger, or betrayalHow do I make decisions?Based on internal principlesBased on loyalty, security, or trusted systemsWhat do I fear most?Being wrong, bad, or corruptBeing unsafe, unprepared, or abandoned
🌱 Reflect & Explore
Are you more tuned into what’s right, or what’s secure?
Do you lean on inner principles (One), or seek reassurance from others (Six)?
When you anticipate problems, is it because something’s not ethical... or something might go wrong?