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The 32 People You Meet In Heaven, Hell and Everywhere Else

Consider the The Big Five Personality Traits, i.e.

  • Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)
  • Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless)
  • Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)
  • Agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. challenging/detached)
  • Neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident)

If you treat these as binary traits, on or off, then you can define a maximum set of 32 types of people.

# Open to experience Conscientious Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
1 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
2 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
3 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
4 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
5 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
6 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
7 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
8 consistent/cautious, not curious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
9 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
10 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
11 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
12 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
13 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
14 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
15 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
16 consistent/cautious, not curious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
17 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
18 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
19 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
20 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
21 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
22 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
23 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
24 inventive and curious, not cautious easy-going/careless, not organised solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
25 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
26 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
27 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
28 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless outgoing and energetic challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident
29 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
30 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved agreeable, friendly and compassionate (warm) secure/confident
31 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) neurotic, sensitive/nervous, anxious
32 inventive and curious, not cautious efficient and organized, not careless solitary and reserved challenging and detached (cold) secure/confident

When developing a character in fiction, pick one of these 32 possibilities, and you won't be writing a 1 dimensional character, you'll be writing a 5 dimensional character. Not bad!

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