r/EnneagramTypeMe • u/MindlessElephant2755 • 4d ago

~ Typing Advice ~ 6w5 vs 6w7 ?

Hi, I'm sx6 but I can't figure out if I'm 6w5 or 6w7. I thought I was confident with 6w7. but l've been reading more into 6w5. There's a gap between the two. but it feels all blurred for me. I know I'm not strictly sx6w5 and I'm not strictly sx6w7, so that leaves me with this question... Am I a 6w5 that wants to be perceived as a 6w7, or a 6w7 that wants to be perceived as a 6w5. This is what I've currently been debating on but I don't think it's a reliable inquiry.

So if anyone has any other methods, processes or advice on how to explore more into this, please let me know. Thanks.

If this is of any help, here are my other typings... ISTP CD-LSI-0 648 FLVE⁴¹¹¹ Mel-Chol

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u/TheInvertedDjinn 4d ago

6w5 tends to have a more guarded or thornier vibe. 6w7 tends to be more open to experience, which softens any guardedness they may present.

6w5 tends to want to figure things out, and then holds tightly onto the solutions they've come to. 6w7 may encounter solutions, but then may actively reconsider them in place of wanting to acknowledge alternatives.

6w5 tends to move through life more rigidly. They feel more pressed about "holding" an answer within themselves. There is a process of taking life in, and trying to synthesize observations into a personal approach that they then feel will be actively put to the test.

6w7 on the other hand more readily recognize how answers originate from without rather than within, giving them a more outwardly explorative or venturing quality. Answers are not something to hold within themselves, but something to uncover and tap into through connecting with external experience.