1 is fixated on using their mind to analyze and pick at their psycho-physiological experience to find flaws they need to change and improve upon — to ultimately remove "bad things" and optimize the "good things".

1 removes their sense of humanity from the fluid quality of being-presence and emphasizes a need for control against aspects of existence that cause chaos or create disgust. Obsessed with creating and exacting standards, 1 (particularly 1w2) expects everyone to be as sensitive to  removing messiness as they are and can become harsh and judgmental — prone to "educating" others of the harm that what they are disgusted by brings.

There is an underlying shame inside 1 that signals the movement of the enneagram into the heart center. This Type judges and moves away from the gut center’s need for full perception and relationship with all aspects of existence by imposing systematic order and moral frameworks on instinctive impulses and experience of self and boundaries — which is self-rejecting and critical.

Unlike 9 (which identifies selfhood with harmony) or 8 (which identifies selfhood with expansion), 1 channels the gut’s need for presence and boundaries through creation of or compliance with rules, standards, and ideals — creating a fundamental hyper-intellectualization of the gut center as well as a baseline state of uneasiness with the variety and breadth of experience. This is done to protect and instill "correct values" into one's existence that prevents destructive experiences.

The core issue of 1 is the self-assumed responsibility to "clean" life, prevent decay, make things predictable and right once and for all, etc. This very act rejects most of what life is and narrows their idea of what true living is into what they dont find disgusting or unworthy. This aspect demonstrates the shadow need for inventiveness and exploration (-7) funneled through a rigid moralistic framework that continuously updates itself and never reaches a consistent flow of contentment... Because life as well as your unconscious mind always throws chaos at you.

Whereas the Nine removes itself into tranquil merging with the environment, and the Eight rejects weakness through expansion, Type One rejects the essence of life  to continuously correct where they feel allowed to experience life.

1's have a sense of duty and responsibility which makes them hold on to what they deem as important and not be swayed by randomness. But this rigidity is the very thing that creates imbalances that then storm into their life and need to be optimized again.

The Hidden Triads, as they are expressed in 1:

Gut (8, 9, 1): Center of Energy that processes quality of presence, being, and existence. 1 is rejecting signals to change course and update to the body and world's need for reassessments of values  — seeing experience and living as a means to an end by continuously making decisions that make the psychophysiological system feel less impure. More emphasized in 1w9

Transactional/ Superego (1, 2, 6): Feeling responsible for the effects of people's behaviors and standards on one-and-other. Creating systems that are upheld to certain standards for people to gain things from each other. Sensitive to broken deeds and contracts. More amplified in 1w2

Frustration (1, 4, 7): Seeking to remove themselves from their Gut Center of Energy to process and finalize the ideal state of being and presence. Easily dissatisfied with how things are. Prone to identifying with a feeling of lack and the need to overcome it.

Competency (1, 3, 5): Seeing themselves and others as systems that can be understood, updated, and effective by removing the emotional attachment to qualities of experience and prioritizing increasing capacity.

Update-seeking (1,3,7): Presents self as a resource for change and refinement of experience. Seeks to build an identity founded upon movement and profound ideals relating to the philosophy of existing in the world.

Head center energy in 1's:

Gut types are most easily identified by the quality of groundedness and sensitivity to non-verbal communication. 1 is the most intellectually-oriented of the gut types. With sensitivity of how individual/society affect each other, it is seeking to establish a standard/value that is optimized and maintained. As with all frustration types, the intelligence of the center is used to move away from the typical homeostasis of the center toward the next center. This can cause 1's to be misinterpreted for other types, specifically in the head center.

This type is focused on:

Directing instinctual presence into shaping and correcting reality according to a principled order. The gut’s raw sense of being is disciplined and channeled into “rightness” — under the compulsion to refine and improve both self and world. 

Key Qualities:

• Anal-retentive

• Optimal state of existence is seen as a necessity and therefore the standard for reasoning (emotional or mental), and behavior is set very high and specifically to the person’s gut center judgements. 

• Philosopher of values for sensory experience

• The body as a moral temple

• Uneasiness in the body / Rigid

• Idiosyncratic ways of holding body and its musculature.

• Sensitive to people, systems, or experiences that may misalign their routines and order.

• Believes that individuals and society need to collaborate to raise standards of living/being - even if not directly a social person in cases like 1w9.

• Compliance to an inner or outer standard of morality, reason, or correctness.

• Hyper-attunement to flaws, errors, and discontinuities in people or systems.

• Seeks control over reality through systematic improvement and correction.

• Struggles with accepting imperfection, inefficiency, or ambiguity.

• Can appear critical or judgmental, but internally suffers from their own high standards.

• Believes that aligning with rules or principles justifies and stabilizes the self.

• Rejects indulgence in instinctual chaos that may cause a sense of destabilization.

• Feels a sense of responsibility to correct others’ mistakes to prevent disintegration of structure.

• Anger is repressed and converted into moral urgency or correction.

• Can become rigid or brittle under stress, clinging harder to rules.

Type Story:

Controlled and measured. Detail oriented and sharp. They seem to tread the line between states of unease and perfect stability. Filled with an urge to refine the self and the world toward more precision and purity. 

Wings:

1w9: Personally driven. Focused on refining one's own experience and boundaries. More easily dropping into the positivity of the body when standards are met. Reserved, more grounded, and softer.

1w2: More sensitive to wrongdoing of others as they double down on transactional/superego needs. Focused on principles and the experiences they produce. Leans into the value assessments and seeks to embody themselves as the image of the righteous to influence others. More philosophical, expressive, and belief-driven.