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MOTIV Personality Trait Descriptions
Offbeat (Unconventional)
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Motivation: To find new ways to do things Purpose: Knowledge selection/discovery Conflict: new ways vs. statis quo/old ways Historic antecedent: Jungian Intuition vs. Sensing |
| Characteristics: not big on customs/traditions, has a strong need for individuality, anti-status quo, revolutionary, their ideas sometimes surprise people, does things others find strange, obscure, non-conformist, peculiar, considered to be eccentric by others, abstract, lives life on own terms, alternative, experimental, artistic, rebels for the sake of rebellion (i.e. even when it doesn't make sense), good at making impromptu speeches, has take frequent stands in the face of strong opposition, inclined to do the opposite of what others want them to do, good at coming up with something new, radical, discordant thinker, complex, crazy, wild, atypical, idiosyncratic, likes losing them-self in things, random, often acts on the spur of the moment, creative, likes to do frightening things, improviser, seeks out the patterns of the universe, feels best taking risks, main motivation is to be different, feels attracted to the mysterious, prefers variety to routine, has a vivid imagination, spontaneous, breaks the rules, prone to excess, intense, mystical |
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*for a low score assume the opposite of the above. the descriptions listed here are made up of personality items. people who scored high on this type scored higher on the above items compared to the average. (more info) |
High Offbeat Scorers
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Pertaining to my Offbeat score, I believe my score is related to a strong desire to not fit into the mold of the average adult
human being that I am accustomed to. The general lack of thought, curiosity, or interest in anything other than whats directly
in front of our faces is not something I want to be associated with. I feel like the negatives from narcissist apply to me,
excepting that I have a strong moral compass, and strong ethics. M-22 O-88 T-88 I-33 V-22
In my case being unconventional is somewhat paradoxical because what I see in society is a sort of ready discard of intellectual and religious tradition without a respect for their value. The conventional to me reflects a ready and unthinking acceptance of things like immorality without really valuing what was there. I think too many people are too ready to change and I've rebelled against that by really becoming focused on tradition but at the same time am annoyed by people who would be my allies that are too dismissive of the whole picture. I think convention often represents ignorance. M-77 O-100 T-66 I-0 V-66 From a personal standpoint, scoring highly on the unconventionality reward drive has less to do with "discarding" customs or traditions that have "value," and more to do with simply living by your own from the start because you never shared the same value system as that which is currently accepted. M-44 O-100 T-94 I-5 V-38 Unconventional or imaginative thought and actions. I tend to reject the norm and go after something which I believe has more value. Pros: Adaptability, a willingness to be open minded, independent thought I wouldn't say that "discarding customs/traditions that have value" is completely accurate. I discard them because I have found something to which I proscribe more value. And that does not necessarily mean that I reject the value people place on their own customs and traditions. Possible cons might be frustration with people who believe in things which have been proven wrong. For example, pseudoscience versus actual, fact-driven science. M-16 O-100 T-72 I-11 V-33 Rules and hypocrisy always make me sick. Pretending to be someone or do something you are not is sickening. M-77 O-83 T-77 I-66 V-44 I have always been an unconventional person. I am intellectually gifted, left-handed, learning disabled, and also a lesbian. I was aware at a very early age that I was different than most of my peers. As I got older I realized that traditions are quite changeable, across time and place, and to me they seemed to be quite arbitrary. I dislike that tradition is often used as an excuse to discriminate against people. I believe that some traditions do have value, such as celebrations, and a least some degree of etiquette, however some of these traditions simply perpetuate harm, or have little use in the modern world. M-38 O-100 T-77 I-22 V-38 I think I scored highest on unconventionality because I set a lot of store in being unique. I value individuality and would rather stand out for being different than fit in for being the same M-38 O-83 T-16 I-27 V-61 I believe that I scored highest on the Offbeat reward drive because being unique helps me realize that I am my own person. Knowing that helps me do things I want to do rather than things other people expect me to do. Also, it helps me love myself for being myself and not wanting to change for other people. pros- individuality, feeling secue with myself, knowing I am my own person. cons- sometimes I overlook suggestions from other people without even taking them into consideration,I don't like traditional and the way I express that may be insulting to some people. M-38 O-72 T-33 I-55 V-61 I am like this partly due to my ADHD. I also love to learn new things and like to put what I just learned into application. I want to be able to see the results of my actions. I am also in a family of entrepreneurs. Business comes naturally to me. I agree with the con listed for my profile (ignoring the value of some customs and traditions which have value) - this is where I get into trouble the most! M-83 O-94 T-88 I-27 V-83 I don't make a conscious attempt to be unconventional, it sort of just happens. I like a lot of things that are extremely unpopular compared to the norm of what people my age like. The biggest example I can think of is music. Today's music is terrible, in my opinion. The main pro to this would be that I really like things based on my personal opinion, not just to go with the popular or normal one. The main con I'd say is not having a lot of people to share my unconventional interests with. M-55 O-88 T-11 I-27 V-55 I am a high IQ INTJ, I think this helps explain a high score on "unconventional". I don't think like others, or - others do not think like me. I wouldn't say it makes me happy. Like being in a small percentile of intelligence and personality type makes it clear you are "different". Being different - does not make me happy, but it might be true to say it makes me feel a little egocentric pride! The cons - are HAVING to be a loner. If there were more people like me, then I wouldn't be unconventional! It's not a choice. M-61 O-83 T-72 I-33 V-33 I have found that the conventional approach just doesn't quite cut it in the type of situations I frequently find myself in, and therefore I make my own, far more unconventional approaches. I often get good results with my unique approaches (academically, in chess and with social situations). I must admit that I also like rubbing it in people's faces when I achieve great success with an idea that I'm testing out for the first time, mainly because I don't work as hard as my competitors and still get better results sometimes. I believe it is because people spend too much time trying to understand others' approaches instead of trying to make sense of a situation and trying to find answers based on their own instincts and experiences. Just because something works really well for one individual, it doesn't mean it will work well for another, precisely because they are individuals. M-71 O-81 T-71 I-76 V-5 I've always been considered different. It has also never been a negative thing for myself or my peers (to my knowledge). I am an only child of divorced parents. Beginning at an early age, I had, and have had, a very plentiful amount of friends, and loving, emotionally available parents; however, it's kind of 'just been me' forever. I surprise, shock, and entertain myself and others without exerting myself in any way. I guess that's the pro. The lack of negative feedback of my "unconventionality" has lead me to be fearless in sharing my unusual thoughts and ideas. I cringe at the thought of being a small sheep in a huge flock. I'd like to find my own piece of land and if you'd like to join me, more than welcome. I don't enjoy following, as I spent my early teen years doing so, a contrived carbon-copy, holding back the strangeness that I've now learned to love and embrace without shame. The major con is that I've developed unrealistically high standards for others and it seems no one can match them. I crave another unconventional individual who can share with me their own wild mind, as I can share with them mine. I've not yet found someone who can meet me 'where I am', so to speak. I burst with joy when I don't lose someone during deep conversation, which sadly is a rarity (and I assure you I am not insane nor incapable of clear articulation). Might also be important to note that I am an extreme atheist, find pop culture embarrassing, and scored high on narcissism, which I'll own up to. M-88 O-88 T-83 I-72 V-33 I enjoy being different because I think that if you are just like everyone else you will have a boring and uneventful life. I strive to not be a part of the "in-crowd/mold" I hate being like anyone else. M-33 O-100 T-77 I-83 V-27 I think I scored high on the Unconventionality drive because recently I've made a life choice of trying to be true to myself after getting out of a relationship where I had to change a lot in order to make the other individual happy. The most important people in my life have always encouraged me to be myself and love me no matter my choices, so that support system allows me to continue my "unconventional" life. There is also a very negative force in my life that wants me to bend to convention, and that kind of negative energy helps remind me that I'd rather be unconventional and happy than "normal" and miserable. M-50 O-88 T-5 I-44 V-66 I believe the main reason that I take pride in being different is because I feel I'm doing a disservice to myself if I don't let myself be, in lack of a better term, myself. Hiding my true feelings/thoughts upsets me greatly and I feel I'm not only missing out on an opportunity for myself but the people that I'm with as well. I think that my actual individual nature is something that I was born with, and something that has been nurtured over time by the experiences in my childhood. Being an artist (my mom said I started drawing when I was in kindergarden and I haven't stopped since) I've always viewed the world in a different way, and being so I've always been viewed as different by others. Through elementary and middle school I had been dropped by many "friends" and accumulated new ones with nary a glance back. It wasn't until in middle school when I thought I'd found my soul mates (best friends) and had them all abandon me in the 8th grade that something snapped. I stopped supressing my true artistic nature and started trying to stop caring how others viewed me. Ever since I've been much happier but inside I still have the same insecurities I'm sure everyone else has- but instead of pushing them back I use them as motivation to keep being who I am. M-22 O-94 T-27 I-72 V-27 to be normal in my mind is the greatest sin. i prefer think most people are squares and it would be horrid to be square when you can be a star and to want to fit in means that really you are of no importance so i strive to be different to be strange that's why i am unconventional. M-33 O-100 T-33 I-33 V-0 I think I like being different because nobody else is like me. It makes me unique, and I don't need to conform to the mold of what people want to make me happy. I am happy just the way I am, and people can take me or leave me. But, either way, I truly know that I am in the better position because I am someone. I have my own voice, and I am not afraid to use it. One could say it's a defense mechanism, but, for me, I truly believe that happiness comes from within not from everyone else. You can be happy with someone and from the influence of someone, but the only way that's possible is if, and only if, you can truly accept yourself for who you are. Being the same like everyone else makes you a dime a dozen, boring, plain, and I am not one of those people. My own ideas stimulate thoughts, dreams, and most importantly life. Being different and "weird" is the greatest gift I have ever been blessed with. M-9 O-85 T-66 I-28 V-47 Being different causes others around me to expect uniqueness and therefore to allow me to act independently with very little interference. I am impatient with explaining the motives for my actions to others, so acting unpredictably causes other people not to bother with understanding the things I do and why I do them. Most of the time, the means by which I reach a conclusion are not understood by those around me, so taking the time to explain them has no purpose and is a waste of time. M-55 O-100 T-100 I-0 V-11 I love being different. It something I strive to be. Not because I crave attention, but because I just really don't like being apart of society's idea of "beautiful". Beauty has a total different meaning to me. Beauty to me is having curves, tattoos, piercings and being your own person, whoever you may be. Being beautiful to me is also having a good heart and to not think less of yourself or others. Confidence is key. Excepting others as they are and excepting yourself as you are, for every dimple, freckle, birthmark, zit, scar and stretchmark. M-66 O-88 T-55 I-44 V-22 being the same as everyone else is boring and unattractive. i have more fun being different. i like to share what i like with my friends. i don't want to be lumped together with the rest of the crowd. although it's hard to connect with people when you're too different from them. M-55 O-88 T-55 I-66 V-44 after reading some about stalin, lenin and che guevara i've just come to the realization that what i am, is a revolutionary. also it seems i might be have borderline personality disorder. M-44 O-88 T-72 I-61 V-22 |
Low Offbeat Scorers
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I follow rules not make up my own. M-55 O-27 T-88 I-100 V-77
I do not like being the center of attention, and being unconventional makes one stick out from the crowd. M-55 O-33 T-66 I-77 V-16 I think I'm like this because I'm very shy and I was teased while growing up. Also, I just like being who I am. not trying to be somebody I'm not. M-44 O-27 T-44 I-33 V-16 You ask why I don't like to be different? Doesn't everyone like to fit in? I love being wanted and needed and thrive when I am in those situations; going with the crowd (albeit sticking to my strong moral grounds) allows me to blend in, and give me the space to develop my own decisions with the help of those around me. M-72 O-38 T-77 I-72 V-61 I don't like to be different because I don't like the attention being different gets you. It's uncomfortable to be under scrutiny. M-77 O-27 T-33 I-33 V-72 I don't like to be different because I want to fit in, and I'm scared of being judged if I do something wrong. M-33 O-38 T-50 I-61 V-33 I am worried of what people think. M-72 O-27 T-27 I-61 V-33 I like to "fit in" and people please. Therefore I mostly like to be like others. If I do start something new I need someone to okay it. M-83 O-33 T-61 I-88 V-16 I do not like being different because I was diliked in High School for being different from my peers (different values, goals, desires...). Though I am usualy considered outside the norm by many, I still desire to be normal. I am working on not desiring being normal so much as I know that being "normal" is a subjective term based on your environment and your perspective. Therefore, everyone is normal and not normal all the time. M-44 O-22 T-72 I-50 V-77 As a female born and raised in the southern USA (Texas) I find the cultural traditions and expectations for the behavior of women as prevailing. To negotiate social situations, I have spent many years attempting not to offend or contradict the expressed social norms. I am over 50, happy, but painfully aware that I do not fit the mold of the majority of people around me. I am not a pariah, just aware, like others, that my mindset and life goals are different from the cultural norms here. M-55 O-44 T-77 I-61 V-72 I scored low on unconventionality. I don't like to be different because I feel a need to be liked by people and am worried that if i am too different from them then they won't like me anymore. I guess it's a nervous feeling and a need to be accepted as I used to be a very shy person. M-44 O-44 T-33 I-61 V-50 I dislike being different as, I'm sure, a safety mechanism. No matter what my environment (socially and physically), I tend to do my best to remain unnoticed in the background. I dislike people taking note of me, and I much prefer to be a face in a crowd. That being said, I am a confident individual with a healthy body image, and confidence in my abilities. I just feel no compulsion to put myself in the public eye if I can accomplish things in a more subtle manner. M-72 O-27 T-66 I-83 V-33 I feel that if I am too different people will not except me and I will be kicked out of my group of friends. M-72 O-38 T-77 I-50 V-44 Because I value my privacy - being publicly unconventional leads to public examination. M-77 O-44 T-50 I-50 V-11 I possibly lack confidence in myself hence I don't strive to be different. M-44 O-33 T-55 I-50 V-38 I don't like to be different because being different is difficult. People persecute you when you stand out. I don't feel the need to be different just for the sake of being unique. I feel that most people want the same things out of life; love, happiness, success. People who strive to be different are trying too hard in my opinion. M-66 O-22 T-88 I-94 V-27 I think I scored low because I'm in a new place, without many connections, in cases like that I prefer to be left alone, and being conventional is a good way to do that. On the other hand when I'm in my hometown, with my friends, or safe (not alone) I prefer to be unconventional. M-33 O-44 T-50 I-44 V-61 It is a result of my genetics and my life experiances. My genetics have made me generally shy. I am not a good conversationalist although I would like to be. In my life, whenever I would do something wrong (like on purpose) I would invariably get caught. I was scared to death of getting into trouble. M-72 O-44 T-94 I-50 V-55 For me my need to want to be not different is due to the fact my mom constantly telling me I was crazy and etc...and saying constantly "your just imagining things." This seems to make me desire to not be different, to be liked sorta. This is not easy to explain. M-50 O-44 T-72 I-77 V-61 My answer to your question is - "different" is a bit subjective. I believe I am different and a little unconventional . I don't have purple hair or live in a cottage in the mountains or anything outwardly different but I am not a sheep either. I tend to question convention and decide whether I think it's valid for me. So do I dislike being different? No. I think it's possible to be remarkable in more subtle ways. M-38 O-38 T-100 I-22 V-77 How can a person be different from others. God has made every one equal.what ever happens happens with gods will. We are rewarded by god as per our action. I have many weaknesses and only one strength. I am not a good singer, sports men, student, writer or body bulder. My only strength is my faith in god. I do meditation on regular basis and I feel god close to me M-77 O-44 T-77 I-16 V-44 Being different would invite comment, being noticed, standing out. I do not like nor want that. I do not want attention. I would rather blend. M-5 O-38 T-55 I-100 V-33 I scored low on unconventionality drive and I was not surprised by it. I was brought up in a private school, going to church 3 times a week with a very religious family on my mother's side. I believe certain religious types are taught that we are not to stand out and we are to follow the example set before us and that it is unfavorable to stick out especially if it is in a way which may make us perceived to be rebellious or unapproachable. The positive side is that we preserve tradition. M-88 O-38 T-72 I-5 V-55 fuck you M-61 O-44 T-50 I-55 V-22 Well, I wouldn't say I don't like to be different, it's more "I'm afraid of being different". I do want to be different, as in, I want to better myself, I want to be someone others aspire to be. However, I don't know how to become that better person so, everytime I choose to change, I'm shooting in the dark, I can either become better or become worse, and many of those times I'm to afraid to become worse and so choose to remain as I am. M-61 O-44 T-83 I-77 V-88 I scored low on the Unconventionality drive because after years of living with a moody eccentric I crave normalcy and stability. If I had taken this quiz 12 years ago, I would have scored higher. M-50 O-38 T-100 I-55 V-61 I am conventional on the Maslow list of needs: food, clothing, shelter, work (but, I work at home (stay-at-home mom, and my husband works, so my job is not so much in jeopardy as one in the public sphere might be. So, after basic needs are met, I like being unconventional in that I like to be an activist for causes and to work for change in areas other people don't see first. I also don't care to follow current fashion ideas, but like to buy American, buy from my artist friends, buy vintage and thrift and antiques, all of which have been commented on by more conventional family. M-72 O-33 T-55 I-55 V-88 True, I did score low on unconventionality, but that is quite meaningless. I love to be unconventional, it's just that I'm too afraid to stick out. I love to be different, and yet I hate it at the same time. I'm rather nervous in social situations, you see. M-61 O-44 T-66 I-72 V-11 |
| *for a low score assume the opposite of the above. the descriptions listed here are made up of personality items. people who scored high on this type scored higher on the above items compared to the average. (more info on construction) |