Px Ways
The Six Ways + White
Your way is the energy you bring — how you communicate, how others experience your style, how your humour lands. Six recurring patterns, each named for a colour. Plus White, when no single way captures you.
Why colours?
Colour captures something animals and landscapes can’t: pure energy, mood, register. Your way isn’t a place or a character — it’s the quality of how you move through the world. Bold runs hot and red; Steady runs deep and green; Deep runs inward and indigo. The shorthand is recognisable before you even read what it means.
Ways complement archetypes and worlds. Your archetype is the gift you bring; your world is the landscape you bring it to; your way is the energy in how you bring it. A Lion at the Summit running Bold looks very different from a Lion at the Summit running Keen — same gift, same world, different way of arriving. Together, they make your what-world-way.
Meet the seven
Six named Ways with White at the centre — when no single way fits, you carry pieces of all of them. The arrangement isn’t accidental: White contains every other Way’s colour, so the six orbit around it. (The echo of older stories about six around one — pale, at the centre — wasn’t planned, but we’ve noticed.)
Bold (Crimson)
Direct, decisive, no-buffer action
Bright (Gold)
Broadly capable, balanced, role-model integrated
Keen (Sapphire)
Layered, perceptive, depth-feeling
White (Off-white)
Balanced, adaptive, multi-mode
Warm (Amber)
Storied, expressive, relationally present
Steady (Forest green)
Grounded, reliable, quietly capable
Deep (Indigo)
Reflective, idea-rich, inward-first
Want to know how the Ways were derived — Gerlach’s 2018 cluster discovery, the HSP extension for Keen, why Deep was added, when White fires?
Read the science of Way →Which one is yours?
Glimpse your Way — twenty-four questions, just a few minutes, no account needed. If you recognise yourself, there’s more to discover with the Insight assessment.