ESE vs EIE

Markers that ESE mostly agrees with, while EIE mostly disagrees:

1. I love creating coziness for myself and my friends.
2. I have the role of a peaceful and unobtrusive optimist in life, with whom it is "always easy" to communicate.
3. I love helping others.
4. I enjoy sports, good food, adventurous risks, and any joys from the tangible material world.
5. Bright joy or joyful enlightenment is the usual background of my "daytime" mood.
6. Sports and manual labor are natural everyday needs for any healthy organism.
7. I am a good-natured person who is mostly content with everything.
8. I know how to relax well, appreciate pleasures and life’s joys, and can establish comfort in my close environment.
9. In the physical, material world, I feel "like a fish in water" – I have everyday practicality, good manual skills, and can comfortably arrange my living space.
10. I almost never have a bad mood – I am a natural optimist like an Airedale Terrier.
11. I am relaxed about routine procedures, such as cleaning the apartment, polishing shoes, and caring for equipment.
12. I have a cheerful, easy, and completely unobtrusive nature; I know how to enjoy life and give joy to others.
13. My home usually has various trinkets, figurines, and statuettes – they make it cozier, in my opinion.
14. I am a person of habitual pleasures and simple life joys, which are the most important to me.
15. For the most part, I feel comfortable, content, happy, relaxed, and optimistic.
16. Every minute of mine is filled with bustling energy of life and happiness.
17. I am always friendly and pleasant to talk to, spending a lot of time on conveniences for myself and my friends.
18. My mission is to improve the tangible material world around me, bringing joy to those around me.
19. I like to show my affection to a person through helping meet their life needs – feeding them, ensuring their peaceful sleep, and comfortable rest.
20. Kindness, loyalty, and diligence are my constant, most prominent qualities in any situation.
21. I am an optimist, confident in my health and strength, striving for pleasant sensations, and everything is fine with me.
22. I can easily focus on manual work.
23. I am very practical in everyday life.
24. My hands never shake.
25. Most of the time I feel calm, well-being, and contentment.
26. I have little to change in my life – everything is already good.
27. I enjoy cooking.
28. I can engage in physical work for quite a long time before getting tired.
29. I usually forgive a person, regardless of whether they deserve forgiveness.
30. I take pleasure in showing care towards others.
31. I am forgiving and easily dismiss past and irrelevant things.
32. The smell of food always excites and stirs me; I usually salivate from the smell of cooking food.
33. I am quick to respond to requests to do something around the house.
34. I always enjoy spending time working and caring – but not for myself, rather for "my people": family, friends, colleagues, and common cause.
35. I am very caring towards my relatives and close ones.
36. I would prefer being a surgeon to being a government official.
37. I always feel great joy and inspiration from the successes of a close loved one.
38. I like most of the people I know.
39. I have no fetish for scientific knowledge – it is more important to do something simply useful and working.
40. In life, I am a warm, soft, conciliatory, advice-loving, food-loving, homey, and money-loving person.
41. If I see that a close person is sick or not feeling well (and I almost always notice it right away), I will almost certainly approach them with an offer of care and advice on treatment – as I would do for my own health.
42. I love being useful and needed for someone.
43. It is true that I lack talent for intrigue; I have always foolishly focused on the common good and, like an even bigger fool, always expected the same from others.
44. I avoid any statements that embarrass others.
45. I am a bit lazy, but I love fiddling with cooking and creating homey comfort.
46. I can quickly switch my attention between sensations in different parts of my body.
47. I would enjoy working as a groom, taking care of horses.
48. I love myself, and others love me for my good-natured and unobtrusive disposition.
49. I am very altruistic and almost always ready to help those in need.
50. I almost always view things through someone's eyes or focus on something specific rather than looking into infinite space.
51. I sometimes have a desire to take care of someone fragile and vulnerable, who looks so weak and defenseless; I want to guide them on the right path (such a helpless, scattered, impractical person).
52. My talents include being cozily bustling under the right mood, knowing how to rest, and skillfully avoiding other people's conflicts.
53. I often feel compassion and care for people less fortunate than me.
54. It is true that I almost never had outbursts of anger since childhood.
55. I love cooking.
56. I have excellent coordination and precise vision.
57. I love and can listen to jazz improvisations for a long time.
58. For me, sensations are very important; I can even say that I think not with words and pictures, but as if with the whole surface of my body.
59. Most dissatisfied people need to change not their surroundings but their attitude towards reality.
60. I am always ready to help.
61. When I am guilty, I usually admit it honestly without trying to shift the blame.
62. My body has good control and "springiness" with high tone.
63. I have excellent coordination and instant reaction.
64. I often crave sweets; when I eat them, my mood noticeably improves for a while.
65. I am generous with feasts, love organizing rest and entertainment for friends.

Markers that EIE mostly agrees with, while ESE mostly disagrees:

1. I often have a depressed, gloomy mood without obvious reasons.
2. I often suffer from spleen – a bad mood.
3. My character has some arrogance.
4. I often catch myself on unpleasant sensations.
5. I tend to "exaggerate" illnesses, expecting the worst – up to some fatal disease.
6. I often am grumpy.
7. Sometimes I entertain myself with psychological "attacks" on another person – to see how they get nervous and how their mood gradually worsens.
8. At least two or three times a week, I have prolonged bad, angry moods that I want to take out on someone.
9. I am squeamish, and it often happens that after shaking hands with some people, I try to go wash my hands quickly.
10. I sometimes feel numbness or coldness in my limbs (at least once every two weeks I encounter such sensations).
11. I care for my loved ones at home only out of necessity, i.e., if everything becomes really bad and critical.
12. It is true that I do not like physical work.
13. I can be ruthless to people.
14. I quickly get tired of manual labor.
15. I think I criticize others more often than myself.
16. I believe I experience feelings of disgust or revulsion more often than others.
17. I am a resentful person.
18. I am repulsed by dealing with lowly domestic issues.
19. I am often overcome with envy towards someone.
20. Sometimes my limbs slightly go numb and feel cold.
21. I think more about human shortcomings than about human virtues.
22. Even outside of illness, I sometimes experience chills where my body starts shaking as if from cold (this happens at least once a month).
23. When I see a piece of furniture, I don't pay attention to the details it is made of.
24. I always feel resentful if I feel that my opinion is ignored by others.
25. It is difficult for me to internally relax, feel at peace with the world and people.
26. The scariest thing for me would be to suddenly feel like an unnoticed grey mouse in society.
27. It is true that I rarely allow anyone to touch me or my clothes, no matter whom I talk to, even among friends and even in a crowd.
28. Sometimes I like to spoil someone's mood by adding my more pessimistic note to their optimism.
29. More typical for me is that I often pay attention to existing inconveniences rather than knowing how to enjoy conveniences.
30. I am not very practical and generally indifferent to household issues.
31. I sometimes use demonstrative ignoring, demonstrative disrespect, and contempt to achieve my goals in relationships with people.
32. My hands or forehead often get covered in cold sweat (I notice this at least once every two weeks).
33. I have a sense of doom, sometimes even feeling sorry that I am alive.
34. If I walk up a few flights of stairs, my pulse jumps to over a hundred beats per minute.
35. I am often or constantly tense and ready to retaliate.
36. Admitting my guilt is stupid – when I am guilty, I almost always manage to shift the conversation to the guilt of others.
37. If I say "thank you" to someone, it is almost always out of simple politeness or to not spoil the relationship with this person in the future, but I do not feel obliged.
38. At least a couple of times a week, I have emotional outbursts of rage and anger in relationships with loved ones.
39. There are times when my heart rate slows down, and my body is covered in sweat.
40. Over the past month, I have felt feelings of contempt, disdain, even disgust towards people more than once.
41. Bruises easily form on my body, even from minor impacts.
42. Sometimes I like negatively affecting others' emotions, agitating people, throwing them out of their usual cozy balance.
43. From nettle burns, strongly itching blisters quickly appear on my skin.
44. Some people often feel negative, painful emotions emanating from me.
45. In the autumn-spring period, when there are many sick people on the streets, I easily "catch" colds or flu.
46. Solving a life task, I know how to intrigue, pitting people against each other in the team.
47. I am annoyed by others' success.
48. I have a terrible character, but I can't do anything about it.
49. My emotions and feelings are often egocentric.
50. Sometimes I look for trouble or disappointment where there is none.
51. In general, I am not the kind of person who admits my wrongs and, moreover, apologizes for my words.
52. Among acquaintances, there are at least three people I personally dislike.
53. Sometimes I deliberately provoke people, making them respond aggressively.
54. I often pretend to be "a delicate nature, not understood by others" (though it is close to my essence).
55. In a bad mood, I always become more "prickly" and conflicting.
56. My questions often contain sarcasm.
57. Over the past month, I have felt feelings of sorrow, sadness, melancholy, depression, almost despair more than once.
58. Many smells often irritate me.
59. I notice unpleasant sensations in my body (itching, tingling, numbness, vibration, pain, heaviness, etc.) much more often than pleasant ones.
60. At least several times a week, I feel disgusted by something.
61. Sometimes I pretend to care about others.
62. My chronic infections usually recur from hypothermia.
63. Which plot do you prefer in adventure or fantasy literature?
    EIE: A lone hero courageously confronts the surrounding environment and defeats it, forcing it to submit and accept his conditions. The hero is endowed with many initial virtues, and the hostile environment is limited and imperfect, and therefore deserves to be destroyed or remade.
    ESE: A lone hero faces an initially alien environment but gradually becomes absorbed by it, submits to it, and it is on this path that they achieve perfection. Because this environment (forest, planet, unknown tribe) is better and more perfect than the hero who entered it.
64. I usually avoid and especially do not rush to agree that I made a mistake.
65. I have often tormented my loved ones with angry "scenes" and tantrums.