Type 1 - The Reformer

• Principled
• Purposeful
• Self-Controlled
• Perfectionistic

• They strive to be morally upstanding and virtuous in the face of external corruption.
• Their pervasive, underlying fear is that they are corrupt, and they must act virtuously to prove this fear wrong.
• Their prime motivation in life is their sense of integrity.
• They constantly aim to move away from corruption and towards virtue or the greater good.

• To be good.
• To have integrity.
• To be balanced.

• You are motivated by the need to live your life the right way, including improving yourself and the world around you.
• You strive to be consistent with your ideals and to justify yourself.
• To be beyond criticism so as not to be condemned by anyone.

• You feel that something is wrong with you.
• You feel imperfect and need to do things well.
• You develop an inner-critic.
• You think you have to do things the right way and adhere to specific standards of behavior.

• Internalizes, or focuses their anger, inwardly.
• This leads to a perfectionistic streak.
• Since they give themselves no mercy, they tend to be judgmental of others, as well.
• They are principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.

Personality Type Cross-reference

• ENFJ - The Giver
• INFJ - The Advocate

• Temperament Type - Phlegmatic
• Animal Type - Otter
• DISC Type - Influential
• Socio-Communicative Type - Expressive
• True Colors - Blue
• Color Code - Blue
• Personality Compass - West

• ENTJ - The Commander
• INTJ - The Architect

• Temperament Type - Choleric
• Animal Type - Lion
• DISC Type - Dominant
• Socio-Communicative Type - Driver
• True Colors - Green
• Color Code - Red
• Personality Compass - North

• ESFJ - The Provider
• ESTJ - The Director
• ISFJ - The Protector
• ISTJ - The Inspector

• Temperament Type - Melancholy
• Animal Type - Beaver
• DISC Type - Compliant
• Socio-Communicative Type - Analytical
• True Colors - Gold
• Color Code - White
• Personality Compass - East

Center of Intelligence

The Gut / Body / Instinctive - Anger / Rage

Traits

You are conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. You have a "sense of mission" in that you want to improve the world in various ways. You always strive to improve but often fear making mistakes. You are passionate and use convictions and judgments to control and direct yourself and your actions. You are a person of practical action and wish to be helpful in the best sense of the word.  You are well-organized, orderly, meticulous, and try to maintain high standards, but can slip into being critical and overly perfectionistic. Others often view you as highly self-controlled, even rigid. You believe that being strict with yourself (and eventually becoming "perfect") will justify yourself in your own eyes and the eyes of others. But by attempting to create your brand of perfection, you often create your hell. This makes it difficult for you to trust your inner guidance. You spend a lot of time thinking about the consequences of your actions, as well as about how to keep from acting contrary to your convictions. To stay true to your principles, you resist being affected by your instinctual drives, consciously not giving in to them or expressing them too freely. The result is a personality type with problems with repression, resistance, and aggression. You sometimes have issues with resentment and are often impatience.  You try to convince yourself that you are rational and proceed only on logic and objective truths. But, the real picture is somewhat different: Ones are activists searching for an acceptable rationale for their actions. You strive to overcome adversity, particularly moral adversity, so your spirit can shine through and make a difference. You strive for "higher values," even at the cost of great personal sacrifice.
When Healthy	When Unhealthy
Ethical Reliable Productive Wise Idealistic Fair Honest Orderly Self-disciplined	Judgmental Inflexible Dogmatic Obsessive-compulsive Critical of others Overly serious Controlling Anxious Jealous​

Focus of Attention

• Like the “superego” function of Freud’s model,
• One focuses on noticing error (in the form of deviations from an internally generated ideal), discerning right and wrong, and displaying a reliance on rules and structure.

Thinking and Feeling Patterns

• Emotionally, Ones often feels resentment and irritation or anger that is restrained.
• The communication of aggression conflicts with their belief that expressing anger is terrible, so anger and other instinctual impulses are typically held back and then leak out as resentment, annoyance, criticism, and self-righteousness.
• Ones believes there is a “right way” to do things and that we should all try to be more perfect.

Behavior Patterns

• Ones can be perceived as being rigid and highly structured in their behavior, relying on ritual and repetitive forms of doing.
• Typically, they follow the rules and are reliable, ethical, and hardworking.

Passion—Anger

• As an emotional passion, anger appears in its repressed form for Ones as resentment that seeks resolution in pursuing perfection and virtue.
• One displays hostility toward the imperfect way things are and tries to force things to conform to their ideal of how things should be.

Arrows

Wings

Type 2 – The Helper
When Healthy	When Unhealthy
Caring and personal balance your ideals with the needs of those around you mix objectivity with empathy get into the trenches to bring about the changes you desire idealism with an interpersonal focus often involved in public causes	Can have tendencies towards perfectionism and self-importance prone to anger and resentment when others do not follow your ideals can be intolerant and condescending towards those who disagree can manipulate through guilt around not being perfect enough
Type 9 – The Peacemaker
When Healthy	When Unhealthy
Objective and moderate in dealings with others sense of being an outside observer dispassionate display a scholarly quality spiritual and mystical restrained emotional expression can be perceived as elitist	Can dissociate from emotions hold opinions stubbornly can abstract yourself and others rather than dealing with the messiness of relating personally

Relationships

In relationships, one's energy can cause great complications. A one is glad to fall in love with a person who seems to be perfect. As soon as the first scratches show and the lacquer starts peeling off, one harp about the other to change them.
When Healthy	When Unhealthy
You are loyal, dedicated, conscientious, and helpful. You are well-balanced and have a good sense of humor.	You can be critical, argumentative, nit-picking, and uncompromising. You can have high expectations of others.

Addictions

• Excessive use of diets, vitamins, and cleansing techniques (fasts, diet pills, enemas).
• Under-eating for self-control: in extreme cases anorexia and bulimia.
• Alcohol to relieve tension.

Red Flags

• Taking rigidly inflexible positions
• Feeling a sense of personal obligation to fix everything
• Fixated on organizing and controlling environment
• Tense and serious
• Focus on what is wrong with things

Self-Preservation Subtype

• The perfectionist who worries a lot, wants things under control, and tries to anticipate risks and problems.
• They have a strong inner critic and are hard on themselves, with a heightened sense of responsibility.
• They are often anxious and like to be prepared, down to the smallest detail.
• This subtype avoids expressing anger but can feel deeply frustrated when disrupted.
• They express the passion of anger through working hard to make themselves and the things they do more perfect.
  
• In this subtype, anger is the most repressed emotion; the defense mechanism of reaction formation transforms the heat of anger into warmth, resulting in a friendly and benevolent character.

Social Subtype

Rigidity - “Non-adaptability”

One-to-one Subtype

• This One stands out from other Ones because of its intensity and impact on others.
• They have a romantic view of how things should be and feel entitled to reform people or society to their way of seeing or doing something.
• This One may express anger and frustration directly when these efforts to improve others are resisted.
• They focus on perfecting others; they are more reformers than perfectionists.
• The only One who is explicitly angry acts out anger through their intense desire to improve others and get what they want.
• They feel entitled like a reformer or a zealot can feel: they believe they have a right to change society and get what they want because they have a higher understanding of the truth and the reasons behind “the right way to be.”
• The countertype of the Ones are more impulsive and outwardly angry—they go against the “counter-instinctive” tendency of the One to repress anger and impulses.

Dilemma

• The search for perfection rules the lives of ones and is their specific temptation.
• Ones are conscious of duty and responsibility and are often compulsively punctual.
• They feel pressured by time, stick to a precise schedule, and often keep a detailed diary.
• Ones are serious people and seldom tell jokes, or they forget the punch line.
• They only allow themselves relaxation and recreation after thoroughly finishing their tasks.
• Ones are inclined to deny and punish themselves and to repress or even kill off their needs and feelings.
• Without the help of mediation and prayer, ones can become obnoxious faultfinders.
• Ones are angry because the world is so imperfect.
• They avoid admitting the vexation that motivates and drives them.
• Internally, they are boiling with anger because the world is so damned imperfect. Still, they do not articulate these aggressions as such.
• The defense mechanism that one develops not to show anger is reaction control. Instead of reacting immediately and directly, within fractions of a second, a process of censorship takes place with them that decides what they’ll express and how.
• Immature ones sometimes try to solve their dilemmas differently.
• They can get to the point where they lead a double life. In public, where they are known and observed, they behave correctly, morally, and blamelessly.
• But the repressed shadow shows itself when they feel unobserved in a foreign environment.
• They may live out everything they otherwise deny themselves (and others).
• This applies to, among other things, their repressed sexual wishes.
• The special gift or fruit of the spirit that marks mature persons of any type is always the reverse of the root sin.
• The fruit of the spirit of the One is cheerful tranquility.
• When one discovers their unacknowledged and repressed anger, they can deal with it better than all the other types.
• Immature ones have a hard time making important decisions because, in the process, they might make mistakes.
• All ones live close to the edge of self-righteousness.
• The pitfall that unredeemed ones have to be liberated from is their hypersensitivity.
• They must learn to accept themselves and others without passing judgment.
• Ones are inclined to understand themselves as white knights who set forth into the world to save it.

Personal Growth

• You need to realize that there isn't just one right way, but that many roads lead to Rome.
• You continually seek suitable screens to project your negative feelings and moods.
  
• You need to stop wanting all or nothing.
  
• The special invitation you hear and have to make your own is hidden in the word "growth."
• Among the lifetime tasks is to occasionally learn to ignore duty, order, and the improvement of the world and to celebrate and enjoy life.
• Learn to relax. Take time for yourself without feeling that everything is up to you or that what you do not accomplish will result in chaos and disaster.
• You have much to teach others and are probably a good teacher, but do not expect others to change immediately.
• What is obvious to you may not be as obvious to them, especially if they are not used to being as self-disciplined and objective about themselves as you are about yourself.
• Many people may also want to do what is right and may agree with you in principle, but they cannot change immediately for various reasons.
• The fact that others do not change immediately according to your prescriptions does not mean that they will not change sometime in the future.
• Your words and your example may do more good than you realize, although they may take longer than expected. So have patience.
• It is easy for you to work yourself up into a lather about the wrongdoings of others, and it may sometimes be true that they are wrong.
• Your irritation with them will do nothing to help them see another way of being.
• Similarly, beware of your constant irritation with your own "shortcomings."
• Does your harsh self-criticism help you to improve? Or does it simply make you tense, nervous, and self-doubting?
• Learn to recognize the attacks of your superego and how they undermine rather than help you.
• You need to get in touch with your feelings, particularly your unconscious impulses.
• You may find that you are uneasy with your emotions and your sexual and aggressive impulses—in short, with the messy human things that make us human.
• It might be beneficial to keep a journal or get into group therapy or group work to develop your emotions and see that others will not condemn you for human needs and limitations.
• Your Achilles' heel is your self-righteous anger.
• You get angry easily and are offended by what seems to you to be the perverse refusal of others to do the right thing—as you have defined it.
• Try to step back and see that your anger alienates people so they cannot hear many of the good things you must say.
• Further, your repressed anger may give you an ulcer or high blood pressure and is a harbinger of worse things.

Color

• The color of one is silver.
• Silver is a cool, sober, and clear color.
• It represents moonlight, which gets its brightness from the sun.​

Ones and Twos

• Ones and Twos can appear similar because both have sets of rules that they expect others to adhere to, and they become upset and reactive when others do not follow those rules.
• On closer examination, Ones have far more rules and expectations than Twos, and their expectations cover a wider array of behaviors.
• For example, Ones often have rules governing work style, work product, how things should be organized, how people should behave in various situations, dress codes that define appropriate and inappropriate attire in various circumstances, and more.
• Twos’ rules are far more focused on interpersonal relationships and how people should treat one another.
• Although Ones and Twos can be self-critical and critical of others, most Ones are more consistently self-critical than Twos and more overtly judgmental.
• For example, One’s “inner critic” or judge is activated eighty to ninety percent of the time. In contrast, the Two’s criticism of self and others is less frequent and more activated by highly distressing events like rejection and the perception of having failed others.
• Some may confuse Ones and Twos because both are dutiful and want to perceive themselves (and have others view them) as “good” and “responsible..
• However, Ones and Twos have very different meanings for these words.
• Ones believe they are “good” and, therefore, valued if they do everything right and make few mistakes, and “responsible” means they keep their commitments, do their work well, deliver it on time, and are punctual.
• Twos believe they are “good” and, therefore, valued if they are thoughtful, considerate, and selfless, and “responsible” means they are always available when others are in need. They won’t disappoint the people in their lives.
• Ones and Twos are markedly different in many ways.
• For example, Ones speak definitively, offers opinions, judgments, and ideas, and uses language that suggests they are evaluating people and situations— for instance, Ones use words such as should, ought, right, wrong, and appropriate with great frequency.
• Twos, by contrast, speak in softer tones, ask questions of others to engage them and draw them into the conversation, offer advice frequently, and focus on others in a way that makes people feel important.
• While Ones can be hot, they are rarely as consistently warm and empathic as Twos.
• A helpful way to understand the distinction between Ones and Twos is that while Ones look internally to determine whether or not they have done a good job or made a mistake, Twos are more highly affected by how others perceive them than by how they view themselves.
• In other words, Twos have a solid inclination to perceive themselves through the eyes of others rather than having a definite interior sense of how valuable they are and how well they did something.
• While they may not directly solicit the opinions of others regarding the merit of their work or behavior, Twos pay greater attention to the nonverbal cues and interpersonal behavior of others and are far more affected by their positive and negative reactions.

Ones and Threes

Ones and Fours

Ones and Fives

• Ones and Fives can look a lot alike.
• Both Ones and Fives can be reserved, logical, and task-focused, and both styles can also appear serious and withdrawn at times.
• Both Ones and Fives value independence, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency, but Fives require more privacy than Ones.
• Both seek knowledge— Fives because they believe knowledge is power and Ones so that they can be more competent, informed, and correct in the things they do.
• Both appear intellectual and knowledgeable and excel at objective analysis.
• One strives for objectivity because one wants to be responsible. They believe it is the correct thing to do, and it can prevent mistakes.
• Fives are naturally objective because they think deeply about things and detach from feelings when analyzing situations.
• Both understand boundaries and the need for them.
• Both Ones and Fives are diligent and practical.
• However, Ones are more rules-based, and Fives are more appreciative of simplicity and the conservation of resources than reliant on a specific set of rules.
• Both types apply their internal standards when judging their or others’ work.
• While Ones and Fives share some characteristics, the two styles fundamentally differ.
• While Fives can be self-critical, Ones are much more self-critical than Fives.
• Ones have an internal critic that comments on almost everything they do and say.
• Ones also tend to be more judgmental of others than Fives; they can be openly angry or irritated when others do not follow the rules or do not do things the right way (according to the One’s sense of “the right way”).
• Although neither style feels comfortable sharing emotions and Ones and Fives tend to hold back their emotions, Ones’ feelings tend to leak out more than Fives, who almost always maintain a calm, unruffled reserve, even in times of stress.
• Ones tend to experience some version of anger reasonably regularly, and though they try to restrain feelings, at times, their anger leaks out in the form of irritation, annoyance, or frustration, mainly when people do not perform as the One thinks they should.
• Fives are likelier to keep their thoughts, especially feelings, to themselves.
• Fives automatically detach from feelings, and sharing their emotions with others is scarce, especially at work.

Ones and Sixes

• Ones and Sixes share several traits in common.
• Both Ones and Sixes excel at analytical thinking, and both worry about things going wrong.
• Ones tend to feel anxious about making mistakes, and Sixes tend to experience more general anxiety related to many different things potentially going wrong.
• In response to their worry, Ones try to be perfect and avoid making mistakes, and Sixes catastrophize and imagine worst-case scenarios.
• Both Ones and Sixes are uncomfortable with success.
• Both styles create problems for themselves in completing tasks and moving toward success, Ones because they believe something is never perfect and constantly criticize themselves, and Sixes because they continually doubt and question themselves and believe that becoming successful will make them a target.
• Both styles also tend to be activists in support of social causes they care about, Ones because they feel responsible for making the world a better place, and Sixes because they identify with underdog causes and are sensitive to people in authority positions exercising power over others in unjust ways.
• Ones and Sixes also differ in specific ways.
• Ones worry about making mistakes and being wrong, according to their standards, while Sixes worry about the danger and external threats of all kinds.
• Ones are self-critical and tend to judge others, and Sixes doubt themselves and others.
• Related to self-criticism and self-doubt, Ones try—and inevitably fails—to be perfect, and Sixes either tries and fails to find certainty or finds it in a specific source of authority.
• One particularly stark contrast between Ones and Sixes is that Ones tend to obey authority, whereas Sixes tend to be suspicious of authority and may even rebel against it.
• Ones follow the rules, while most Sixes question them.
• (One exception to this is the Social Six, who adheres to an outside authority and may strictly follow the rules offered by that authority.) Both styles can procrastinate, but they do it for different reasons: One fears making a mistake and always want more time to make what they do more perfect.
• Sixes' continual doubting and questioning make it hard for them to move forward.
• In relating to people, Ones generally tends to trust people and give them the benefit of the doubt unless they break the rules or engage in bad behavior. In contrast, Sixes mistrust others initially until they have observed them enough to satisfy themselves that they are trustworthy.
• After a person has earned their trust, Sixes are loyal and supportive.

Ones and Sevens

• Ones and Sevens have similar styles in many ways.
• Both Ones and Sevens are quality-oriented, with Ones displaying this in their attention to attaining high standards in their work and other things they do, and Sevens seeking to experience the best of everything, especially recreationally.
• Ones and Sevens are both idealistic and visionary.
• One wants things to be perfect and work hard to make things fit an internally generated sense of the ideal.
• Sevens are optimistic about denying negative feelings and realities and thinking about future possibilities.
• Both Ones and Sevens have a lot of energy.
• Ones apply themselves diligently to everything they do, and Sevens dedicate themselves fully to the many activities that interest them.
• While both styles can be perfectionistic, Ones are generally more consistently concerned with perfection than Sevens, who can let go of the effort to “do it right” if it becomes too onerous.
• Both intellectual and analytical, Ones and Sevens like problem-solving.
• Finally, Ones and Sevens are sensitive to criticism, though the One is likelier to show it than the Seven.
• One big difference between Ones and Sevens is that work has to come before play for Ones and Sevens; planning for play and engaging in pleasurable activities is more primary.
• It’s not that work isn’t essential to Sevens, as Sevens can be very dedicated to their work, but they may approach their job duties by doing work as an enjoyable activity rather than a responsibility.
• Although Ones are romantic, they can seem less than optimal because they look for ways to improve things, while Sevens are relentlessly optimistic.
• Ones like structure and can work within prescribed limits, while Sevens dislike limits and may have a harder time constraining organizational structure elements.
• For instance, Sevens are uncomfortable within a hierarchy and tend to equalize authority, while Ones work well within a defined authority structure.
• Further, Ones excel at managing the details of projects and tasks, while Sevens find this kind of work tedious.
• Because Ones naturally pay attention to errors that need correcting, they can seem to the Seven to focus too much on the negative—Sevens always want to focus on the positive aspects of things.
• Interpersonally, Ones can sometimes be critical or inflexible. Still, they are firmly committed to self-improvement, will listen to others’ feedback, and dedicate themselves to working on relationships.
• Sevens bring positive energy and fun to relationships but can feel challenged if difficulties must be addressed and worked through with others.

Ones and Eights

• Ones and Eights look similar in some respects.
• Both are high-energy, hardworking and like establishing control and order.
• Both types tend to get angry but experience and express anger in distinct ways.
• Believing that showing anger is wrong, Ones tend to hold back their anger. Still, because it is hard for the One to shut it off completely, it tends to leak out as resentment, irritation, annoyance, or passive-aggressive behavior.
• Eights, on the other hand, feel and express anger more readily and don’t believe it is wrong to be angry.
• Ones usually get angry when people break the rules or engage in bad behavior, while Eights become angry for various reasons.
• Both Ones and Eights engage in “black and white” or “all or nothing” ways of thinking.
• Both Ones and Eights like to be in control but may assert control differently, with Ones relying on rules, structure, and standards and Eights exercising power more directly.
• Ones and Eights are both concerned about justice and fairness and can work hard in support of a cause they believe in.
• Both styles can overwork and neglect their own needs.
• There are also some critical differences between Ones and Eights.
• Eights think about the big picture, like high-level work, and dislike dealing with details.
• Ones, on the other hand, excel at and may enjoy detail work.
• When engaged in a task, Ones focus a lot on achieving perfection, taking pains to make something as good as it can be, while Eights can be satisfied with “good enough.” Eights tend to go with their impulses, can be excessive, and dislike being inhibited. In contrast, Ones tend to over-control their impulses and delay pleasurable activities, as they are typically more focused on correct behavior than indulging themselves.
• Eights are “under-social” in that they don’t mind—or can like—going against convention, while Ones are “over-social” and almost always observe social conventions.
• Internally, Ones are highly self-critical, while Eights do not criticize themselves as much.
• On the contrary, Eights often move into action quickly, feeling freer than Ones to exercise their power and will without overanalyzing things or entertaining critical thoughts about their intentions or behaviors.
• Ones will usually apologize if they believe they’ve made a mistake (and they value apologies), while Eights are much less likely to feel apologetic for the things they do.
• Ones typically observe and obey authority figures, while Eights don’t like to be told what to do and may rebel against authority if they want or need to.
• When communicating with others, Ones tend to be polite and restrained, using words like “should,” “ought,” and “must,” while Eights can be direct, abrupt, intimidating, and even profane.

Ones and Nines

• Ones and Nines share several characteristics in common.
• In work settings, both appreciate structure and process.
• Both Ones and Nines make good mediators, Nines because they can easily see many sides of an issue and feel motivated to create harmony, and Ones because they have standards of fairness and can be objective and discerning judges.
• Both styles tend to have difficulty noticing and asserting their own needs and want, and both can be perfectionistic, though Ones are usually more perfectionistic than Nines.
• Both Ones and Nines can work well within and respect the existing authority structure, though Nines will sometimes rebel in subtle, passive ways if they feel controlled.
• Many differences also exist between Ones and Nines.
• Ones tend to be pretty opinionated, often believing they know the one right way to do something, and Nines can have a hard time locating their own opinion as a natural consequence of being so attuned to other people’s varied perspectives.
• Nines typically don’t assert a position, while Ones often assume their position is the only correct point of view.
• Related to this, Ones think in terms of black and white and believe there is “one right way,” while Nines see many shades of gray.
• Although both styles want to avoid conflict, the Nine does so more than the One, who may be unable to stop arguing when they feel strongly about something.
• Ones like to do things their way, and Nines adapt more easily to others, often preferring to follow someone else’s agenda rather than asserting their own.
• When accomplishing a task, Ones make a lot of effort to make things perfect, relying on their ideal internal standards, whereas Nines are more oriented to what other people think and want.
• Ones usually have a clear vision of the correct way to do things, while Nines seeks consensus, wanting to hear from others when making decisions about the standards.
• Ones are more observant of rules and will confront those who do not follow the rules, while Nines are more easy-going and much less likely to confront people who don’t obey guidelines.

Career Advice

• They are efficient, organized, and always complete tasks.
• The more analytical and tough-minded Ones are found in management, science, and law enforcement.
• The more people-oriented Ones are found in health care, education, and religious work.
• Since they do things in a professional, honest, and ethical manner, they can make excellent Teachers, Preachers, and Judges.
• They have an uncanny ability to smell out a lie on a gut level.