Type Sixes are thus the prototype for that tendency in all of us that needs to find a sense of security in the world in the face of the fears that naturally arise as part of being human—fears we feel (especially) as we seek to dis-identify with our personality. All the personality types feel afraid in different ways, but the Six’s placement on the Enneagram map communicates the idea that “as long as we are identified with our personality structure, we live in fear.”1 The “acorn-self” doesn’t know a life without fear; only the “oak tree–Self” grows beyond fear and anxiety.
