It is an interesting exercise to take your extreme traits, and then transform them to the opposite statement about humanity.
For example, I am high on neuroticism, so the transformed statement would be: Compared to me, other people don’t give a fuck about most risks, even the obvious ones. They are routinely careless and break things, and mostly feel okay about it. They accept disasters as “normal” and not think about them too much.
Looking at COVID-19 reactions… yeah, this explains a lot.
Nit: I think that sounds more like you’re saying you’re highly conscientious rather than neurotic, although maybe your statements leave out some of the details of your experience that lead you to say “neurotic”. Of course, could just be you’re both conscientious and neurotic in a way that makes it hard to tell them apart as separate dimensions.
Unfortunately, I am high on neuroticism but low on conscientiousness. So I usually just worry about things but don’t do anything to prevent them. :(
In case of COVID-19, I wear the face mask religiously, but that is an exception, not the rule.
In the usual case, being aware of my low conscientiousness further increases my neuroticism, because I know that if I break something, I will procrastinate a lot about fixing it.
It is an interesting exercise to take your extreme traits, and then transform them to the opposite statement about humanity.
For example, I am high on neuroticism, so the transformed statement would be: Compared to me, other people don’t give a fuck about most risks, even the obvious ones. They are routinely careless and break things, and mostly feel okay about it. They accept disasters as “normal” and not think about them too much.
Looking at COVID-19 reactions… yeah, this explains a lot.
Nit: I think that sounds more like you’re saying you’re highly conscientious rather than neurotic, although maybe your statements leave out some of the details of your experience that lead you to say “neurotic”. Of course, could just be you’re both conscientious and neurotic in a way that makes it hard to tell them apart as separate dimensions.
Unfortunately, I am high on neuroticism but low on conscientiousness. So I usually just worry about things but don’t do anything to prevent them. :(
In case of COVID-19, I wear the face mask religiously, but that is an exception, not the rule.
In the usual case, being aware of my low conscientiousness further increases my neuroticism, because I know that if I break something, I will procrastinate a lot about fixing it.
I’m high enough on conscientiousness to not fail, but not high enough on conscientiousness to succeed (or catch up to my neuroticism).