ILI vs SEI

What is true is what is beneficial at the moment.

Sometimes all the sounds I hear are indistinct, unclear, dull, and faint, as if they reach my ears through cotton.

I love to fantasize about something very unusual, sometimes even shocking.

I often use irony to make someone or something appear ridiculous.

Key words for me: profitable or not, beneficial or not, expedient or not.

I perceive and quickly grasp subtle nuances in comparing the profitability of tasks better than others.

Everything in the world has a value for me, expressed in money.

The criterion of truth is material benefit; only what is personally useful to me is correct.

I often think in terms of benefit, efficiency, and utility.

More than half the time, I have predominantly pessimistic and depressive thoughts.

I often provoke people with words to see how they react.

I very much dislike interlocutors or partners with 'emotional outbursts.'

I like to conduct mental experiments, combining the incompatible.

I tend to foresee and plan solutions for all possible scenarios in advance.

When I think about something, I almost always also think about what happened before and what will happen after.

Sometimes I have orientation problems, struggling to immediately recall and understand where I am at the moment (home, work, or elsewhere).

Occasionally, I lose contact with reality for brief moments, not feeling what is happening, although I am not thinking about anything else.

Often, when looking at what is happening around me, I have a clear and somewhat strange feeling of anticipating what will happen next.

Sometimes the surrounding space and objects appear oddly distorted to me.

I never show emotions in life's difficulties.

Sometimes I prove to some people, who boast about their supposed honesty, that they are not honest but also thieves and guided by vile motives.

I regularly dream and fantasize about things that might happen to me.

Sometimes I find myself feeling nothing, as if the world becomes flat and gray for a while, devoid of any emotional significance.

Promised rewards play a decisive role in my interest in work.

Most people are scoundrels.

I always pay attention to the profitability, calculation, and expediency of actions.

Sometimes I have unusual premonitions, feeling like I see what will happen in a few seconds as if the future and present have swapped places for a moment.

My self-esteem constantly fluctuates, often being very low.

Sometimes I enjoy mocking certain people.

I handle symbols of things and concepts better than others, and I am better at calculating time and money.

Sometimes I spend entire evenings thinking and worrying about what I need to do, what I haven't done, or what I can't do, what needs to be done, or what will happen if something isn't done, etc.

Occasionally, I have sudden feelings of alienation, a stationary deadness of the surrounding environment.

Sometimes the future seems to 'overlap' with the present—I start feeling the moment that is yet to come so clearly and unmistakably, as if it has already happened.

I sometimes have sudden feelings of alienation, a stationary deadness of the surrounding environment.

Sometimes I have the strange illusion that I do not exist—the world around me exists, but I am not in it.

I get easily irritated by stupid questions.

I am prone to aggressive thoughts directed at myself.

Sometimes familiar objects and people's faces seem strange and distorted, somehow 'not right.'

I have a kind of 'sixth sense,' and sometimes I know well in advance what is going to happen.

I would be curious to observe a dying person.

Sometimes it seems to me that people are laughing at me behind my back.

Sometimes I have the strange feeling that everything around me is not real, but make-believe, like in a theater.

I always feel nauseated doing tasks that I don't understand or consider foolish.

I have the illusion of 'never seen before' several times a year or more often, when familiar surroundings suddenly seem strangely unfamiliar and new, as if I am seeing them for the first time.

I am mostly in a bad mood.

I love to develop new ideas in detail, up to their practical application.

Almost any person, deep down, is a potential thief and corrupt, no matter what they imagine about themselves.

I have a talent for popularizing—I love and know how to 'play' with complex logical things, showing them from different angles.

In any situation, I instantly grasp the opportunities it presents, but I rarely take advantage of them myself.

Both people and things are divided into useful and useless for me. The useful ones are interesting, and the useless ones never are.

Emotions are valuable only if they support the already established stability in the world.

I quickly get tired of people who willingly demonstrate their 'emotional brightness.'

In the realm of imagination, I have a very focused 'inner' mental gaze: I can hold any object I think about in my attention for a long time and without interruption, while also tracking all its transformations over time.

If there is an opportune moment to take a piece of a neighbor's land for my benefit, only a fool wouldn't do it.

I don't like variety shows and clowning, especially on New Year's Eve, when there's nothing else to watch on TV.

My mind is often occupied with thoughts about how to save money or time on some trifle.

If someone's patriotic pride condemns the population to long-term material deprivation, that's shit, not patriotism.

I would be well-suited for a job as a financial or political analyst.

I know how to use other people's opportunities for my selfish purposes.

Everything depends on the situation; principles usually just get in people's way.

I often experience heightened perception: my skin is very sensitive, sounds seem very loud, light is bright, and colors are extremely vivid.

During conversations, I like to laugh and ironize about others' immorality and lack of principles.

I am often drawn to thoughts of death and non-existence, and I like to think about it for a long time as a good way out and the best revenge on myself and others.

I take pleasure in exposing someone's incompetence.

My sleep is very 'broken'—sometimes I can't sleep for a long time or keep waking up, so I don't go to bed at all, and sometimes I sleep all day almost until the evening. If drowsiness and fatigue accumulate by the second half of the night, I finally manage to fall asleep.

How often do you listen to music on your own initiative (while working or relaxing)? ILI: Almost daily and for at least two hours a day. SEI: No more than 10 times a year.

Very often, I involuntarily weigh and estimate the effectiveness of my expenses and efforts, thinking about how to optimize them.

I frequently experience various fears or panic states.