Present Authoring: Faults - 10 - Select Habits

Openness/Traditionalism

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Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be over-inclusive. Don’t worry if some of the bad habit descriptions do not really apply, as you will get to specify the most typical habits later, when you make your final fault selection, prior to writing.

  • Pursue too many activities at the same time
  • Am interested in so many things that I don’t know what to focus on
  • Have a hard time planning for the future because I am interested in everything
  • Am sometimes attracted by ideas that are radical but have not been thought through
  • Sometimes see meaning in things that probably isn’t there
  • Jump around too much from topic to topic when I am talking to people
  • Have a hard time making up my mind because I can always see all the sides of an argument
  • Am so interested in creative activities that it is hard to concentrate on things that are practical
  • Can become possessed by an idea
  • Daydream too much
  • Sometimes every thought I have immediately suggests an overwhelming number of ideas
  • Have had experiences or thoughts that were strange enough to frighten me
  • Have had a hard time forming a clear identity
  • See connections between things too easily
  • Have done crazy things just because I was curious about what might happen
  • Am good at a too-narrow range of things
  • Am seldom interested in abstract, philosophical ideas
  • Avoid sophisticated fiction and stories
  • Do not attend movies or plays
  • Am unimaginative
  • Do not care for change
  • Do not involve myself in creative activities
  • Do not like to read challenging material
  • Do not really understand or value art
  • Seldom seek out new experiences
  • Try to avoid complex people
  • Will not probe deeply into a subject
  • Am unlikely to initiate a new project
  • Tend to think that creative people are strange
  • Always do things the same way once I have learned how to do them