MetaType sixes are part of the head sector or thinking types. Sixes are easy to identify because they are very anxiety-ridden. They are driven by the need for security – they don’t like change. They want to live in a safe, just universe.
Sixes tend to worry a lot. They overthink things, always looking for what might upset the balance of the universe. Their main concerns are about protecting themselves from the fearful unknown.
The fear of the six is more obvious than that of the other thinking types. They are constantly calculating how to maintain their stability. They can be very heroic in protecting others but it is driven by their own personal quest for safety. You will find sixes often in positions such as police officers, security guards, network security officers – positions where they fulfill the role of ‘keeping the keys’. Such roles give them the opportunity to act out their need to believe that the world is an unstable, unsafe place that requires their protection.
The heroic quest of fighting the battle between good and evil is the journey of the six. The discovery that Luke Skywalker makes when he goes into the dark cave and finds that the evil one that he fights is really himself is something that sixes can learn through becoming self aware. Until they realize that the uncertainty and instability that they perceive is coming from within themselves, they will project it outwardly and make sure that you know about it, too. Anyone that the six cares about needs to know the dangers of living in the world: it is their job to educate and protect you from these dangers.
The anxiety of sixes produces an odd set of contradictions. In order to quell their anxiety, they look externally for something bigger than themselves in which they can put their faith. However, their anxiety makes them very distrustful, so while they seek authority figures and groups into which they can place their entire trust in exchange for security and safety, they tend to distrust and rebel against them. So they are alternately company players, political party adherents, religious devotees, and faithful spouses then hackers, revolutionaries, agnostics, and distrustful, paranoid spouses. When they lack knowledge of their own internal fear, they find salvation only to be cast out of the garden over and over again.
Sixes are some of the best comedians you will ever find -- Woody Allen, for instance, is the quintessential six. The humor of Seinfeld is another example of the six's world view. Many comics are sixes, as they take their internal anxiety and spin it out into humor. The archetype of the overbearing jewish mother is a six, who wants to take care of you, love you, smother you because she is afraid of what might happen to you in the world. It is very useful to understand the inner working of sixes because once you understand these patterns, you will be better able to understand what drives their contradictory actions. They are their own best advocate and worst enemy.
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