## On Personality --again

<span class="date">05/09/2012 06:17:00 AM</span>
[●](http://blog.tulpa.info/post/22713954889)

Some people have been requesting the ‘snippets’ of my personality thing
that I’ve sent FAQ Man and posted on the IRC, so I figure I’d post them
up here (inb4 “your handwriting is terrible, why religious, etc, etc.).

Basically, what I did, was go to [This
Website](http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Personal/Factors.htm) and
start copying every trait I liked into a raw list.  I ended up with
about 75 or so traits.

Afterwards, I organized each trait into one of the Big Five Personality
Factors.  Here’s a picture of the completed list (yes, resolution sucks,
the pic is to show you the structure, not the traits themselves):

![Personality Factors](http://i.imgur.com/rFNPZ.jpg)

Next, I went to [This
Page](http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/basic%20emotions.htm)
and started writing down/organizing every emotion I thought would be
good to include in the personality; I was left with this:

![](http://i.imgur.com/0SLqZ.jpg)

And finally, I went over attributes; likes, dislikes, hobbies, topics of
interest, and tabled them:

![](http://i.imgur.com/YJRAC.jpg)

Now, when I work on personality, I basically sit down in a chair and
tell the tulpa about itself.  I go through trait-by-trait, and
rationalize the following:

![](http://i.imgur.com/Ok7f9.jpg)

In case you can’t see the last two entries, they say: "How would the
tulpa handle each emotion, based on the trait?"  and ”\<\<Go over each
emotion and apply each trait to it.“

The narration is pretty much just free-form through most of it.  I’m
pretty much like, "Since you’re blah and blah blah, you’re often blah. 
This makes you thing that you’re blah, and you handle some situations
like blahblah.” or “Since you’re imaginative, you enjoy listening to
classical music.  You can close your eyes and picture what’s going on
during the songs and imagine, etc,” at least until I get to emotions.

For each emotion, I try to visualize/feel the entire essence of the
emotion and the trait simultaneously, then I talk to the tulpa about how
it handles each emotion based on the trait; if it’s too hard to talk
about, I just abstractly think about that particular emotion.

I probably spend about 20-30 minutes *per trait*.  I’m totaling about 60
traits, I’ve finished with about 9 traits so far.

**P.S.**

I can provide a more detailed explanation of the process I used/am
using, with examples, downloadable tables, etc, if anyone wanted them,
but I’m not sure if I should; mainly because I don’t want to release a
method that hasn’t been fully tested yet, and I don’t want to lead
people the wrong way, know what I mean?