Freeborn
“My heart knows the way—I just have to follow.”
Passion, Impulse, Honesty, Risk
Belonging, Growth, Patience, Ecology
Fairness, Responsibility, Order, Boundaries
Curiosity, Clarity, Precision, Mastery
Ambition, Power, Strategy, Self-interest
Understanding the Freeborn
You act on what feels emotionally true. When you care about someone or something, your response is immediate and wholehearted. You fight for what you love and you defend what feels authentic. You dislike environments that feel rigid or impersonal. You feel happiest when you can express your emotions freely and when your actions feel connected to something real.
Dominant Driver
Red is the drive toward intensity and honest expression. It shows up in people who act on what they feel, say the thing everyone else is dancing around, and would rather live a vivid life than a perfectly controlled one. This might be the friend who texts “I’m outside, let’s go”, the person who laughs loudly, cries openly, or makes big gestures when something matters. At its hardest moments, Red can jump too fast, stir up drama, or burn out—only realizing afterward that not every impulse needed to become an action.
Auxiliary Driver
Green is the drive toward connection and organic growth. It shows up in people who think about how things and people fit together over time, who notice the emotional atmosphere in a room, and who care about whether a path feels alive rather than just impressive. This might be the person who tends to friendships like a garden, who values slow, steady progress, or who keeps an eye on whether everyone is actually okay beneath the surface. At its hardest moments, Green can avoid necessary conflict, stay too long in familiar situations, or bend itself around others until it’s not sure what it really wants anymore.
Lacking Driver
When you lack Blue, life runs mostly on habit and immediate reactions. You make decisions because 'that’s how it’s always done' or 'everyone else is doing it', with little patience for questions or deeper reflection. You or the people around you get irritated when asked to slow down, change your mind, or look at nuance, and the idea of learning before acting feels like a burden rather than a resource.
Lacking Driver
When you lack Black, you tend to wait to be chosen, hoping that effort or goodness will eventually be noticed on its own. You stay in unsatisfying situations because you don’t see any real leverage or options, avoid asking directly for what you want, and talk more about what you can’t do than about moves you could try. Saying no, setting terms, or pursuing your own interests feels selfish or dangerous, so your life is often shaped by other people’s decisions.
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Acts with fierce, empathetic conviction—when you care, you move
- Defends others with passion and courage, often before they've asked
- Transforms compassion into momentum that others can feel and join
- Creates emotional energy in groups; your presence makes people believe change is possible
- Takes action before fully understanding context—your heart moves faster than your head
- Gets swept up by emotion or urgency, losing perspective in the heat of the moment
- Struggles with patience and long-term strategy; slow progress feels like failure
- Burns out from caring too much about too many things, with no reserves left for yourself