EII vs LII
Markers that EII mostly agrees with, while LII mostly disagrees:
- I enjoy listening to people and relieving their emotional tension.
- When solving a general task, I focus on the perception of the other person rather than the task itself – it is very important to me what my partner feels, thinks of me, or whether they love me.
- I am very sensitive to the feelings and needs of others.
- Feelings are more important to me than thoughts.
- Each person has their own 'flavor' and significance to me.
- I usually feel another person's experiences as my own.
- The world of people, emotions, and feelings is much more interesting to me than the world of machines and natural laws.
- Powerful passions and feelings rule the world and are generally stronger than reason and us.
- I always automatically pay attention to any changes in the relationships of my acquaintances.
- I worry about the misfortunes of others.
- In books, I am more interested in relationships between people than the plot.
- I usually notice earlier than others if someone is tired or unwell and am always ready to help unobtrusively.
- I am a master at catching the 'emotional vibrations' of another person.
- I don't like judging and resolving conflicts, but I can reconcile people.
- If someone has trouble, I immediately feel an emotional response in my soul to this sad event, even if I don't know the person.
- Often and with pleasure, I engage in 'finding an approach to people.'
- Almost everything that happens around me stays in my memory for a long time, evoking evaluation and vivid feelings.
- I am a very empathetic person.
- Professions like social worker, psychologist, educator, or veterinarian would suit my character very well.
- The anticipation of someone's 'thank you,' sincere gratitude, almost always motivates me to act.
- I am sensitive and observant to sudden small shifts towards more negative, cold, minor, or dissatisfied moods in my partner or interlocutor.
- A very accurate and comprehensive set of concepts characterizing me: feelings, agreement, peace, humanity, commandments, conscientiousness, shame, politeness, obligation, human soul, forgiveness, poetry, fate.
- A person is fundamentally incomprehensible – there is too much unknowable and changeable in them.
- It's easy for me to feel relationships between people; I quickly distinguish genuine feelings from pretentious ones.
- I often notice changes in the relationships of my acquaintances.
- I enjoy nurturing and pacifying.
- Key concepts for me: imagination, empathy, compassion, soul, traditions, commandments, duty, tact, self-sacrifice, accuracy.
- I often try to guess the carefully hidden motives behind someone's behavior and words.
- I can 'feel' any person or phenomenon from within.
- I like reconciling people (around my age).
- There are things that, if I start talking about them, make my voice tremble and even bring tears to my eyes.
- I often worry about what someone thinks of me.
- I still remember many important visual or auditory details of events experienced long ago but during which I felt intense emotional tension (check yourself, try to recall).
- Sometimes I am haunted by loud intrusive thoughts accusing me of sinful behavior.
- When I communicate with a person experiencing trouble, I start feeling anxiety and depression almost as they do.
- I often pay attention to changes in the relationships of familiar people.
- My mood is highly dependent on the support of my actions by others.
- I always pay attention to who knows whom and what the basis of their closeness is.
- I am dependent on public opinion (at least no less, and rather more, than others).
- I like finding out what my friends feel and what they really need.
- I sometimes enjoy patronizing people from a position of requester.
- For my motivation, it is crucial that my achievements and merits are noticed and acknowledged by those close to me.
- Mere trifles can often put me in an agitated or upset state.
- I always note and remember who knows whom and what the basis of their closeness is.
- My thoughts are often occupied with regrets about my mistakes and how others might react to them.
- In my youth, I was very lenient and empathetic towards others while being very critical of myself.
- My temporary lack of demand from people, the absence of positive 'reinforcement' through external approval, quickly leads me to depression and lowered self-esteem.
- Persistent feelings of guilt often plague me.
- I often take an interest in the affairs of my relatives.
- I have some frequent and obsessive memories.
- I can communicate with suffering people.
- Compared to others, I have a special talent for patience and responsiveness, upbringing, and selflessness.
- I often worry about what hasn't happened yet but could potentially occur.
- Sometimes I experience prolonged feelings of guilt with self-reproach and pangs of conscience.
- Stressful states occur regularly for me, at least once a week.
- Sometimes I focus on thoughts about how worthless I am.
- I am haunted by some shameful memories.
- I can usually explain why another person I know acted differently in a situation than I would have.
- Sometimes I cannot distract myself from a disturbing fantasy.
- I like helping others.
- I regularly (at least once a week) have excessively anxious states without good reason.
- When meeting friends, I always ask them about something.
- I often engage in spiritual 'self-flagellation.'
- Sometimes I heap insults on myself.
- I spend all my time with pleasure working and caring – but caring not for myself, but for 'my people': family, friends, colleagues, the common cause.
- One person, intending to say 'Nelson Rockefeller,' once said: 'Nelson Nockenfellen, that is, Relso Rickenfeller, that is, Felso Nockerfelson.' I often have similar errors when trying to pronounce some complex word.
- Others are constantly trying to use and manipulate me.
Markers that LII mostly agrees with, while EII mostly disagrees:
- In my thinking practice, I often apply the 'razor principle' – of all possible explanations of a fact, I discard all those that are 100% impossible; what remains after all the eliminations is the truth, no matter how staggering, terrible, and unlikely it may seem.
- I am a smarter person than most of my acquaintances.
- I am often indifferent to the feelings of others.
- I am a well-educated person with a sharp, strictly analytical mind.
- I am not interested in the problems of other people.
- Logic always helps me make the world clear and structured, so I can be guided by general principles and ideas, ignoring details.
- I am hardly concerned with people's opinions – in pursuing discovery, I satisfy only my own curiosity.
- If I decided to buy a car and someone suddenly offered me a car of the right brand at half price, even though someone died in it, I would buy it willingly and without long hesitation.
- It's hard for me to feel anything towards people, I often feel indifferent.
- I live more by reason and calculation than by heart, and logic and order are my protection against bullies.
- I am indifferent to both praise and criticism from others.
- I was very interested in formal logical laws.
- I instantly notice minor logical flaws in others.
- I am more inclined to criticize than to reconcile positions.
- I have no time for other people's problems.
- I solve any intellectual problems faster than most of my acquaintances.
- I can fully focus only on the main information and main problems while ignoring all insignificant things.
- My logical chains in reasoning are always infallible and precise.
- I am indifferent to what others say about me – it is much more important what I think about myself.
- People who cannot reason strictly logically are, as I secretly believe, almost like monkeys.
- I am generally absolutely indifferent to any attempts at moralizing – they do not affect me.
- I mostly do only what is really necessary, so I do not like giving gifts.
- I would make an excellent analyst, mathematician, programmer, or geologist.
- I remember any damage inflicted on me almost forever, whereas verbal offenses are less memorable and are quickly forgotten.
- I consider myself intellectually superior to 90% or even 99% of all other people.
- I am objective and sharp in judgments and principled evaluations; structures, classifications, concepts are my style.
- Many unfairly consider me a dry and unapproachable snob.
- I consider belief in miracles, jinxes, someone's witchcraft talents, telepathy, etc., a sign of a superficial and naive mind.
- I generally do not interfere in other people's troubles with my help.
- I almost never make mistakes, so there is no need to double-check myself.
- I would like to work as a programmer, creating computer programs.
- I easily formulate and sequentially unfold my thoughts in speech or on paper.
- I am rarely drawn to food; the feeling of hunger is not typical for me.
- I evaluate both ideas and people as impartially as possible – without considering my personal likes or dislikes, or anyone's social status.
- I am interested in the structure of the state and its electoral system.
- I love classifying events and objects, comparing them based on some criterion.
- I have a very strong research instinct.
- I would like processing sociological statistics, identifying relationships and trends in people's preferences using mathematical methods.
- I always instantly understand and 'catch on the fly' the meaning of everything I read.
- Being a researcher in biology, physics, or mathematics would suit me very well.
- I strive more for separation than for unification.
- I live by the principle: I owe nothing to anyone, and no one owes me anything.
- My self-esteem fluctuates very little and is practically independent of my current level of demand or external approval.
- In conversations, I more often argue than support and agree.
- I am my own judge for both my beliefs and my words.
- My intelligence is higher than most of my acquaintances.
- I have my own opinion on almost any issue.
- I rarely worry and almost never get anxious about the consequences or about other people's possible reactions to my actions.
- I usually do not feel responsible for others – they should take care of themselves.
- If I don't like the outcome myself, then I don't care and am not interested if others like it or not.
- I criticize others in my thoughts, but almost never myself.
- When I read articles on the internet, I am always interested in the tables with numerical information provided in them.
- I would like the job of a technologist, where for each moment it is necessary to set the right parameters of a chemical process.
- My interests are usually separated and distanced from the interests of others.
- Most of the time, I feel calm and self-sufficient.
- I value my independence most of all.
- Doing something for someone, forgetting about myself – that's not about me.
- I believe that the collective and 'common opinion' are very rarely right (in fact – almost never).
- I think my calling is discoveries and inventions that overturn established notions.
- I see my task as discovering universal laws that are independent of time.
- In any endeavor, it is very important for me to maintain a sense of independence.
- I hate being dictated to or even simply advised on how to work.
- My speech, both oral and written, is full of long complex sentences.
- Scientific search and faith in authorities are absolutely incompatible.
- I would rather have a cat than a dog at home.
- An intellectual thirst for knowledge, with an emphasis on new and unusual things, is a characteristic feature of mine.
- I usually behave independently and originally – contrary to general opinion and the crowd.