☯ Saju Compass

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Five scales.
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What this is

50 statements. About ten minutes. No birthday needed.

The five-factor model is what research psychology uses when it studies personality. It doesn't sort people into types. It measures five separate things and reports where you land on each:

That fifth one has no equivalent in the four-letter tests, which leave it out on purpose. It is also the one most closely tied to how satisfied people report being with their lives, so leaving it out costs something.

No end of any scale is the good end. Each one describes a trade: what you gain at one end you give up at the other, and the result says so for every scale.

Our own instrument, built on the five-factor model. Your score is a position on this test's scale — not a percentile against the population, which would need a normed sample we don't claim to have.

1 You go looking for music, films, or ideas outside what you already like.
2 Questions with no practical use still pull at you.
3 You would rather do something unfamiliar badly than something familiar well.
4 You prefer the routine you know to an experiment that might turn out better.
5 Art, poetry, and the like mostly leave you cold.
6 Conversations about theory tire you rather than interest you.
7 You've gone down an internet rabbit hole about something with zero relevance to your life, and regretted nothing.
8 Given a choice of restaurant, you pick the one you've never tried.
9 If it isn't broken, you have no interest in reinventing it.
10 A weekend with no surprises in it sounds like a good weekend.
11 You finish what you start, even after the interest has worn off.
12 Things go back where they belong without you having to think about it.
13 You would rather arrive early than have someone waiting on you.
14 You put the dull task off until it becomes urgent.
15 Your desk, your bag, or your files are a mess more often than not.
16 You make plans and then quietly let them go.
17 You've redone a task you'd already finished because it wasn't quite right.
18 Your to-do list has satisfying checkmarks on it, and you make sure of that.
19 "I'll do it later" is doing a lot of work in your vocabulary.
20 You've found something you lost weeks ago while looking for something else entirely.
21 You start conversations with people you have not met.
22 A busy room lifts your mood rather than drains it.
23 You are comfortable being the one a group is listening to.
24 You need a long stretch on your own after being around people.
25 In a new group you wait for someone else to speak first.
26 You keep some weekends deliberately empty of other people.
27 You've turned a five-minute errand into a twenty-minute conversation, on purpose.
28 An empty calendar on a Saturday feels like a problem to solve, not a gift.
29 You've let a call go to voicemail on purpose, and it wasn't even one you were dreading.
30 You do your best thinking with the door closed.
31 You give people the benefit of the doubt before you know the facts.
32 You will take on the extra work rather than watch someone struggle.
33 Someone else's problem still occupies you after they have gone.
34 You say what you think even when you know it will sting.
35 You assume most people are looking out for themselves first.
36 In a negotiation you push hard for your side and feel fine about it.
37 You've said "it's fine" about something that genuinely wasn't, just to keep the peace.
38 You root for the underdog before you know anything else about the contest.
39 You've been called blunt by someone who meant it as a complaint.
40 A compliment you don't mean stays unsaid, however awkward the silence gets.
41 Small setbacks stay with you longer than you would like.
42 You replay conversations afterwards looking for what went wrong.
43 You worry about things that have not happened and probably will not.
44 You stay level when everything around you is going badly.
45 Criticism lands, and then it is over.
46 You sleep fine the night before something that matters.
47 A typo in a text you sent ten minutes ago is somehow still your problem.
48 You've drafted a text message you never sent, more than once, to the same person.
49 Bad news rolls off you faster than people expect.
50 You've been told you're annoyingly calm in a crisis, and you'll take it as a compliment.

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