Jerry Wagner has a good new book out on type called Nine Lenses on the World. It’s quite good in making some fine distinctions.

I appreciated his take on how each type typically misreads other people.  I took some notes to share:  

Projections of the One: Since Ones avoid their own anger and imperfections, they project their anger and faults onto others. Others are experienced as being angry towards and critical of them.  The world is experienced as being messy, flawed, careless, frivolous, wrong and imperfect and the Ones feel obliged to clean up, straighten others out, and get them back on the road to perfection.

Projections of Twos: Since Twos avoid their own needs, they project their needs onto others.  Others are experienced as withholding, cold, indifferent, heartless, selfish, mean, prickly, critical and requiring help. Thus, it is the Twos job to detect and empathize with the needs of others and minister to us, thereby making themselves indispensable. 

Projections of Threes: Since Threes avoid failure and inefficiency, these unacceptable features are projected onto others and others are experienced as being the cause of any failures, the source of inefficiency and ineptness,  aimless, wallflowers, limited, losers, in danger of entropy, and in need of consultation and assistance from the Three.  

Projections of  Fours: Since Fours avoid being ordinary, commonness is projected onto others who are experienced as being plain, rude, shallow, predictable, detached, overly cheery, even and not terribly interesting or refined.  Fours experience themselves as unique, interesting and no one really understands.  Being special, they believe they are readily misunderstood.  Therefore, Fours feel it is up to them to restore refinement, class and sensibility to the culture.

Projections of Fives: Since Fives avoid looking foolish, they project their ignorance onto others and experience themselves as sometimes surrounded by a confederacy of dunces.  Others are considered to be stupid, foolish, shallow-minded, overly effusive and chatty, unaware, emotional, myopic.  Fives have the option of avoiding others entirely and withdrawing from the field, or of researching and discovering the truth and enlightening the others about it.

Projections of Sixes: Since Sixes avoid deviancy and vulnerability, they project rebelliousness and power onto others who are experienced as reckless, flighty, negligent, isolated, overly trusting, threatening and trying to get away with something.  The world is experienced as a place that can’t be trusted and it is up to Sixes to bring certainty, order, safety and security back into the world.  Counter fearful (counterphobic) Sixes project their ambivalence onto others especially authority figures, and experience them as inconsistent and untrustworthy.  So, they feel the need to chide or condition them into being consistent and fair.

Projections of Sevens: Since Sevens avoid pain and suffering, they project these elements onto to others who are experienced as being unimaginative, restrictive, boring, pessimistic, joyless, dull, modest, negative, and overly serious.   It is up to Sevens to make others up, make everything okay, envision an optimistic future, see the good in things and give other something to laugh about.

Projections of Eights: Since Eights avoid weakness, they project any variation of weakness onto others and others are experienced as overly dependent, weak, phony, ambivalent, bleeding heart, needy, unfair, naive, sentimental. It is up to the Eights to right any injustices, give others a dose of reality, toughen others up, protect others.  

Projections of Nines: Since Nines avoid conflict, they project their discomfort and unsettledness onto others who are experienced as being conflicted, demanding, excluding, aggressive, frantic, inconsistent and pushy.  They also avoid their own agenda so they project that others ignore them, don’t consider them.  Nines feel it is up to them to calm others down, pacify, reconcile, lower expectations; they also project their agenda is unimportant