SEE vs EIE
Markers that EIE mostly agrees with, while SEE mostly disagrees:
- Compared to others, I generally have low blood pressure (hypotension).
- I’ve had nausea attacks due to nerves multiple times (excluding food poisoning, pregnancy, ulcers, etc.).
- I am squeamish and often try to wash my hands quickly after shaking hands with some people.
- I have a light, superficial sleep.
- The smell and sight of scattered filth or a particularly dirty garbage dump with worms can easily make me almost nauseous.
- I find jokes about the buttocks and passing gas extremely disgusting.
- I am sensitive to any weak external stimuli and often pay attention to them.
- I often feel discomfort without knowing what exactly bothers me—everything in general just feels inconvenient.
- I frequently feel a painful internal restlessness and feel the need to move, walk, or take a stroll to ease my anxiety. But as soon as I start moving, I feel anxious again, feeling I am doing something wrong, and it’s better to sit down and rest. This repeats over and over—I walk, sit, get up, walk, and sit again. Feeling a kind of fidgety internal pain, I go crazy from anxiety devoid of any concrete thoughts; it eats me up from the inside, and I can’t find relief even in breathing—it feels heavy too.
- I often feel like a victim.
- I love reading books on esotericism, mysticism, divination, witchcraft, etc.
- I can’t stand disgusting smells. I can’t do anything properly while they are present.
- I react very painfully to unwanted touches and unpleasant smells.
- I have been trying to figure myself out all my life.
- I often have revelatory dreams with a ‘philosophical’ undertone.
- I am very sensitive to insults and punishments.
- Sometimes my strange states and experiences cause me slight fear.
- My health and well-being are not stable; something often happens with them.
- I have a strong sense of squeamishness—some things or objects make me feel almost physically nauseous just by touching them.
- It is hard for me to switch tasks—starting a new task is challenging, understanding instructions and beginning work, and then it’s hard to switch from one task to another.
- I constantly look for and find diseases in myself and others.
- I often feel cold in the mornings, sometimes even to the point of slight shivering.
- My whole body often feels cold.
- I can’t restrain my disgust at the sight of some animals—some representatives of the fauna I won’t touch even if assured it is safe.
- The sight of diseases with open wounds and injuries makes me want to immediately distance myself and run away from it, run so as not to see anything like it.
- What is more typical for you? - EIE: Often noticing discomforts. SEE: Enjoying comforts.
- Before working, I always need to gather myself, concentrate, and ‘grow’ my muscle and physical tone to the necessary level.
- I often feel cold.
- I avoid looking at human injuries—it’s a very unpleasant sight for me.
- In my thoughts, I always return to what I said in an important conversation; I mentally replay my phrases several times, check them, and recall the reactions of listeners and interlocutors.
- Cartoons where all the characters are depicted as some kind of freaks are unpleasant to me just because of that.
- When I get nervous, I completely lose my appetite; sometimes I even feel nauseous ‘from nerves.’
- I often have dreams.
- I turn pale and tense up in the dentist’s chair when they use a spinning drill in my mouth.
- When describing something literarily, I often use comparisons (rarely do my texts lack them). For example: ‘a gypsy girl, resembling a broom in her dress,’ or ‘sunset clouds, resembling wine stains on a blue tablecloth,’ ‘rare, like an unattractive doe,’ ‘walking, waddling like a duck,’ etc.
- I am easily offended.
- I am sensitive and internally contradictory, often insecure, prone to frequent doubts and hesitation in decision-making.
- It’s true that I usually dislike when someone ‘sticks out’ and causes disputes.
- I am easily hurt by careless words.
- It’s always hard for me to start, hard to ‘work myself’ into some new activity.
- Meeting deadlines is always very important to me.
- I often feel worried and tense.
- I often feel my loneliness, opposed to the whole world.
- Blind experiments (hoping something will work out) are categorically not for me.
- I am deeply hurt by others’ negative attitudes towards me.
- My skeleton is more likely to have thin bones rather than thick ones—at least my hands are thin compared to other people of my gender.
- I am easily frightened.
- I more often feel thirsty, angry, and dissatisfied than content and peacefully calm, as if having received my due.
- I usually follow a routine and schedule.
- I have a very excitable and sensitive imagination.
- I believe that a schedule helps to make life orderly and relaxed.
- I always get very angry and unrestrainedly either in response to any provocation or when someone ruins my plans.
- I always plan my day in advance.
- The existing material world is just an unworthy burden for me.
- In moments of agitation, it’s often hard for me to control myself.
- I dislike cosmopolitans; a worthy person is always a patriot.
- I am quick-tempered and easily get angry, often making a mountain out of a molehill.
- It’s true that I would avoid a job where I mostly have to manage other people, leaving no time for my own free interests.
- Often, some people feel negative, painful emotions emanating from me.
- I am touchy.
- Despondency, resentment, regret, ‘stubbornness out of spite’ are frequent feelings for me.
- I feel comfortable being a member of a ‘pack’ with a strong, authoritative leader.
- Representatives of different social groups should remain representatives of these social groups, not mixing with each other.
- In public life, fostering adherence to a single ideology in people is necessary.
- Public interests have always concerned me more than personal ones.
- I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
- A citizen should belong to the state, just like a child belongs to a family.
Markers that SEE mostly agrees with, while EIE mostly disagrees:
- I am almost always calm about my health.
- I am willing to try anything.
- My muscles are always relaxed, without tension and twitches, and my movements are broad, free, and sweeping.
- It’s true that I never feel internally constrained and tense—my muscles are almost always calm, relaxed, but ready for mobilization exactly when I want.
- I always look forward to gaining new experiences.
- I would enjoy working as a dentist.
- I usually make a choice between two alternatives easily and without thinking.
- I try to do many things just because I hope it will make me more fun.
- My immune system is fine.
- When a sequence of events starts to change according to an unforeseen scenario, I remain completely calm—able to benefit from any development.
- I love thrilling rides (‘roller coasters,’ aerial loops, etc.) where it takes your breath away.
- I love myself, and others love me.
- Choose the more fitting description - SEE: I often appear pleased with myself. EIE: I often appear self-critical.
- I spend little time evaluating the past and thinking about the future; I mostly live in the present moment and day.
- I easily overcome any national or cultural barriers in communication with people—they are no obstacle for me.
- I constantly try new things.
- I usually quickly and willingly grasp the gist of other people’s reasoning.
- I mostly live in the present moment.
- I can easily relax and relieve tension.
- I would enjoy being a mentor to troubled, disadvantaged children, teaching them to enjoy life.
- My behavior probably looks more unrestrained than normative and well-mannered compared to most people around me.
- It’s true that I am not at all squeamish about others’ views and beliefs.
- I am patient and tolerant of people whom many consider unpleasant.
- If I am engaged in the pleasures of the moment, I am not distracted by any thoughts even for a second.
- I am not a fashionista, but I always look neat and put together.
- It is hard to irritate me.
- I know how to achieve my goals, completely trampling on others’ interests.
- When going on a trip or a hike to a specific place, I just go without a plan, not thinking in advance what and when I will do there.
- With all people, I try and usually manage to maintain an equal footing—regardless of the position they hold relative to me (i.e., I strive to maintain equal status with both my subordinates and socially recognized authorities).
- At any moment, I decide what to do based on the situation, without pre-determining it.
- My mood is usually stable and changes little from rewards and troubles.
- I have rather a sturdy, ‘broad-boned’ physique.
- My position: let everyone live as they want.
- I am usually focused on the joys of the present moment and generally do not worry about what will happen next.
- I have a very flexible mind.
- Everything in the world is determined either by money, power, or human physiology, and talks about ideals are for fools.
- I remain calm in stressful situations.
- I am a ‘carefree’ person in life and am not inclined to exaggerate anything, especially possible troubles.
- I can watch a movie on TV from any point—beginning or middle, it doesn’t matter to me.
- My self-esteem fluctuates very little and is practically not dependent on my current level of demand or external approval.
- My health is fine.
- I can ‘extract’ debts from acquaintances—it never happens that someone successfully holds on to my money.
- I treat insults most often without anger, tend to overlook or just joke about them.
- I have a good appetite; food always seems tasty to me.
- I admire inventiveness and value it highly in both myself and others.
- I advocate for a life with a minimum of formalities and rituals.
- My mind is primarily focused on career growth and gaining power.
- When someone does something disgusting to even unfamiliar people, I almost always step in because I can’t do otherwise.
- If there is no urgent need, I never make to-do lists; I prefer to do what I want at the moment, whatever comes to mind.
- I love sports, good food, adventurous risks, and generally any joys of the tangible material world.
- It would be very unpleasant for me to make work plans for the week and the day as required by the boss.
- My lifestyle is characterized by urgency and reliance on ‘maybe.’
- I often indulge in the pleasure of physical enjoyment.
- I often make plans at the last moment.
- In interacting with people, I am closer to calmness and acceptance of their flaws than to rejection and irritation (even if I hide the latter).
- How I spend my time depends on the situation, not the plan.
- Even in nerve-wracking situations, I remain calm.
- I don’t like working by a strict schedule; I prefer a flexible schedule or work without any schedule at all.
- I would very much enjoy a responsible job related to power or leading a large organization.
- Personal interests are always more important than any group interests.
- I am more of an optimist than a pessimist.
- I am an individualist, interested exclusively in personal qualities in both myself and others, not in belonging to any collective.
- I am forgiving and easily suppress all past and irrelevant matters.
- Light joy or joyful enlightenment—call it what you want—is the usual backdrop of my ‘daily’ mood.
- Common interests are always much more important than citizenship and nationality.
- Individuality is paramount; I am alien to any hierarchy, pack mentality, or groupthink.
- I am a good-natured person and spend most of my time content.