ADVERTISEMENT
Without necessarily realizing it, we have lifestyle habits. The way we walk, the way we talk, or how we process emails are trivial habits but more or less show more or less about our personality. As Cicero said, “The habit is almost another”.
As we grow, we adopt habits. They comfort us, they are almost automatic and allow us to be focused on other things in life. These habits evolve according to our current mindset, our social background and our physical ability and then finally take root in our inner self. Moreover, the most innocuous habits indicate many things about our personality:
1. Races
The way we shop and how we buy certain products indicates whether we are more or less attentive to detail and whether, in the end, we are more or less perfectionists. According to an article in Oxford University Press, people who tend to look at and decode product labels before making the decision to buy them are “demons of the explanation.” They adopt this behaviour to ensure that their purchase fully meets their needs. On the contrary, those whose general information is sufficient to determine that a particular product will meet their needs are “fades of the explanation.”
2. The approach
How we walk indicates our vulnerability to victimization according to a study on psychopathy and victim selection. Several detainees who viewed short videos of people walking managed to determine who were potentially likely to be victims.
3. 3. The toilet paper roll
Following a survey of several men and women, relationship expert Dr Gilda Carle discovered that how to hang toilet paper indicates whether we are rather submissive or dominant in our relationships. She explains in an interview with The Independent that those who hang the part of the toilet paper to be unrolled in front are dominant and those who hang it back (therefore to the wall) are more submissive.
4. Emails
It seems that the style and language we adopt in our emails illustrate our personality. According to an article for Fast Company by psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, profiling specialist, words define us and how we also use them in our emails. A narcissist will put more of “I” in his emails while an extrovert will talk about funny things and a creative person will use rhetoric or a rather narrative style. Finally, a person with low emotional quotient will instead use words and a negative and pessimistic style.
5. How to eat
for the rest, see the next page:
ADVERTISEMENT
