Perceiving
Situational improvisation
Engaging with reality directly, without prior schedules or standards.
Action follows immediate salience, momentum, and opportunity.
Preference stays open to detours, loose ends, and flexible rerouting.
Present fit outranks prearranged order.
General meaning
Spontaneity
Biological Level
Irregular circadian rhythm, muscle relaxation
Cognitive Level
Interest-contingent, short-span attention
Psychological Level
Impulsivity, motivational variability
Social Level
Informality, resistance to control
Clusters
Agree
- When I head out of town, I just go with no prior preparation.
- I rely more on improvisation than on long preparation.
Disagree
- I never begin work without first thinking through its whole sequence.
- Before starting something, I think its stages over many times.
Agree
- I start to exert myself mostly when things get urgent or I am forced to.
- Never do today what you can put off until the day after tomorrow, that saying feels closer to me.
Disagree
- By nature I find it hard to stop working.
- Work is close to an addiction for me.
Agree
- I dislike people who have everything clear and laid out, it is foreign to me.
- I really dislike any obligations that require scheduling my time.
Disagree
- I always have a plan of action for tomorrow in my head.
- In the morning I can always list exactly what is planned for today.
Agree
- A daily schedule and I are incompatible.
- I could usually only sit down to study on the eve of an exam.
Disagree
- In the morning I always have a clear idea of what I will be doing tonight.
- I feel more comfortable if I know today exactly what I will do tomorrow.
Agree
- I sometimes start something new before finishing the last, simply because the old has bored me.
- I very often give my time to whatever comes to hand this moment.
Disagree
- Even in work that seems dull to others, I can keep up a long steady enthusiasm.
- I always see everything through, even if little interest remains.
Agree
- I leave many things unfinished because polishing them does not interest me.
- I tend to put things off and often do not finish them.
Disagree
- Once I have started a sequence of actions, I have to complete it.
- Any incompleteness in my work pains me.
Agree
- When a certain sequence of actions is clearly expected of me, I like to do the opposite.
- I remember poorly what I did yesterday and can confuse the order of events.
Disagree
- I plan my time as a linear sequence of necessary actions.
Agree
- Unless absolutely necessary I never make to-do lists.
- I rarely look ahead in personal matters and more often leave myself to chance.
Disagree
- A sense of duty hounds me.
- Any incompleteness in a task pains me.
Agree
- I do not care about strict, constant order in my home.
- I dislike rules and instructions, my home is always in artistic disarray.
Disagree
- I always take rules into account and keep my things in order.
- I value a constant order in my belongings very highly.
Agree
- Along the way I make many changes the original plan did not foresee.
- My plans very often go to pieces because something comes up in the morning.
Disagree
- I usually follow the planned sequence of steps scrupulously.
- I find it hard to rebuild prepared plans on the go.
Agree
- Sometimes I am in the mood to wreck someone's order.
- I have often been scolded for not carrying out instructions.
Disagree
- Compared with others, I am excessively diligent and disciplined.
- Any departure from order and law always outrages me.
Agree
- I find it hard to focus on one thing for long.
- My attention constantly floats and never settles long on one thing.
Disagree
- Everything around me is neatly filed in my memory and retrieved precisely.
- Most of the time I have very high inner concentration.
Agree
- I fairly often do things without thinking them through.
- I sometimes do unexpected things for no particular purpose.
Disagree
- I am always wary of losses and failures and give them much thought.
- Faced with a choice, I try to understand fully which option is right.
Agree
- I love all kinds of surprises in life.
- I get carried away easily but cool off and lose interest just as fast.
Disagree
- Long-lasting, stable attractions and desires are typical of me.
- Unlike others, I can do one and the same thing for a long time.
Agree
- Plans for the future seldom occupy me.
- I live by the principle of whatever will be, will be.
Disagree
- If I catch fire with a goal, I stay true to it for years.
- In my desires and strivings I am usually steady, stubborn and unbending.
Agree
- I did poorly at school.
- If something does not work out and it strains me, I can often just drop it.
Disagree
- Success is almost always the result of personal merit and hard work.
Agree
- I can sometimes be careless and irresponsible.
- I dislike certainty and responsibility.
Disagree
- I can sometimes be tedious in how demanding and dutiful I am.
- I keep my promises without fail.
Agree
- I often give up my plans for some pleasure.
- I am easily pulled from work I have started if someone calls me out.
Disagree
- I easily put off all pleasures for the sake of work that will pay off later.
Agree
- Sometimes it may well be that four plus five makes forty-nine.
- I often like to tease my friends and drive them up the wall.
Disagree
- I really cannot stand discussing serious things in an unserious setting.
Agree
- I often go into debt.
- By character I am more a spender than a saver.
Disagree
- I often think about the resources I have invested.
- I cannot spend money lightly.
Agree
- Changing professions often is normal.
- I like broken symmetry in aesthetics.
Disagree
- I can sit at a task for a long time.
- I am very constant in my habits, likes and dislikes.
Agree
- People sometimes reproach me for not respecting their time.
- I dispose freely of my own and other people's time.
Disagree
- I constantly feel time as a vital resource and plan its use on purpose.
- I look ironically at people who live for momentary pleasures.
Agree
- The role of a rich pleasure-seeker would suit me.
- Cheating a little is not really deceiving.
Disagree
- A slave of honor, that is me.
- I am marked by a striving for truth in everything.
Agree
- A nomad's life would feel closer to my spirit than a settled farmer's.
- Deep down I have a passion for wandering.
Disagree
- I am a person of set, constant habits.
- I wish the world changed less.
Agree
- There is far more carelessness in me than anxiety.
- I under-insure more often than I over-insure.
Disagree
- I treat possible surprises with suspicion and always fear them.
- I often feel anxious at the fear of losing control of a situation.
Agree
- I am more often annoyed by people stuck on their principles than by unprincipled ones.
- I have several different kinds of handwriting and use whichever is needed.
Disagree
- I almost always follow my own rules very strictly.
- A small departure from order can provoke strong indignation in me.
Agree
- I have no idea how to save money or limit myself in small daily things.
- I am more carried away and light-minded than prudent.
Disagree
- I always have strategic reserves of money for special cases.
- I always have everything under control.
Agree
- I easily forget and throw out of my head everything that has passed.
- I part with losses fairly easily, without grief or resentment.
Disagree
- Waiting for an exam grade, I always felt my heart beat faster.
- I fear awkward situations and always worry about how I look.
Agree
- I do not care what people around me think.
- In my writing I often start a new sentence with a lowercase letter.
Disagree
- Stories of heroism always stir me inside.
- I usually put my team's goals above my own interests.
Agree
- I like bohemian company with its risky amusements.
- Forbidden fruit is usually especially sweet to me.
Disagree
- I easily limit and control all my physical habits and pleasures.
- If a thing raises even small doubts, I will not get involved.
Agree
- I am poorly organized and cannot stand any control.
- My strength is more in reaching goals than in steadily holding them.
Disagree
- My key words are diligence, timeliness, neatness and fairness.
- I love cohesion and organization in everything and cannot stand uncertainty.
Agree
- I am often in a state of calm serenity, like a cat licking its fur.
- My posture is usually relaxed.
Disagree
- I find it hard to shed tension and relax even on weekends.
- Muscle tension barely lets go of me even when I rest before sleep.
Agree
- In my work I prefer variety to excess diligence and needless fussing.
- I sometimes do work carelessly and often lack diligence.
Disagree
- I have a heightened drive for quality and perfection in everything done.
- I always check and recheck what I have done.
Agree
- Striving for any universal order is always harmful.
- My opinion of people I know often changes.
Disagree
- I have a large set of stable principles and reference points.
- Fantasies that seem too bold and go against everything accepted bother me.
Agree
- I am almost always calm about the state of my health.
Disagree
- I am a worrier about matters of health and disease.
- I am very afraid of various illnesses.
Agree
- Nothing is unchanging and eternal, I love probability estimates.
- My imagination is full of smooth transformations of one object into another.
Disagree
- I love precision in everything, and even after a joke I usually explain it.
- I have a strong need to fix everything, put it in order and make it unambiguous.
Agree
- Anxiety is not typical of me.
- I really am practically never afraid of anything.
Disagree
- Fear is a frequent feeling for me.
- A sudden fright does not pass quickly, and my heart races for a long time.
Agree
- I want to buy only the best and tastiest of everything.
- Unwinding comes easily to me.
Disagree
- Even when I am hungry and called to eat, I can hardly tear myself from what I started.
- I have sometimes punished myself for a slip or failure.
Agree
- I sometimes make faces at people.
- I sometimes joke on purpose, acting like an illogical fool.
Disagree
- I find it hard to switch from serious topics to jokes and back.
- Visiting children, I more often make a remark or give advice than play with them.
Agree
- I often forget a scheduled event and miss it.
- I have problems with my memory.
Disagree
- Even half asleep I can always say exactly what date and weekday it is.
Agree
- I am usually indifferent to thoughts about the future.
- I give little thought to the coming day, today has enough worries.
Disagree
- Thoughts of tomorrow either warm or frighten me, but never leave me indifferent.
- A steady, constant interest in the future is typical of me.
Agree
- Almost every morning I have long stretches with slight trembling.
- I have whole-body stretches every day, with my eyes squeezed shut.
Agree
- I sometimes hear a kind of rustle of thoughts in my head.
- My thoughts resemble chaotic motion in a swarm of mosquitoes.
Disagree
- I have a well-developed error detector and notice my own mistakes quickly.
- Compared with others, I always pronounce word endings very clearly.
Agree
- I stand out by courage bordering on indifference to danger.
- I am not very sensitive to punishment.
Disagree
- I avoid bare electrical contacts because I fear painful shocks.
- Some can run barefoot over hot coals, I never could.
Agree
- In dangerous and tense situations I can set an example with my will and drive.
- Washing windows at height would suit me better than being a logistics clerk.
Disagree
- I am almost always afraid when the driver of a car is reckless.
- At amusement parks I always avoided the dizziest rides.
Agree
- When I see someone angry at me, I want to make them angrier.
- I love loud music.
Disagree
- From early childhood I was very obedient and respectful toward my parents.
- My family's opinion of me matters much more than public approval.