{"id":184598,"date":"2024-10-30T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=184598"},"modified":"2026-09-06T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:34:48","slug":"podcast-1034-are-you-a-thrill-seeker-or-a-chill-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/self-improvement\/podcast-1034-are-you-a-thrill-seeker-or-a-chill-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #1,034: Are You a Thrill Seeker or a Chill Seeker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This episode starts off a little differently than others \u2014 with a short quiz, something called the Brief Sensation-Seeking Scale, which will tell you whether you’re what psychologists call a high sensation-seeker or a low sensation-seeker. Read the following eight statements, and then pick a number from 1 to 5 that corresponds to your level of agreement, where 1 is “Not at all like me,” 2 is “Not like me,” 3 is “Unsure or both like and not like me,” 4 is “Like me,” and 5 is “Very much like me.”<\/p>\n

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  1. I would like to explore strange places.<\/li>\n
  2. I would like to take off on a trip with no pre-planned routes or timetables.<\/li>\n
  3. I get restless when I spend too much time alone.<\/li>\n
  4. I prefer friends who are excitingly unpredictable.<\/li>\n
  5. I like wild parties.<\/li>\n
  6. I would love to have new and exciting experiences, even if they are illegal.<\/li>\n
  7. I would like to try bungee jumping.<\/li>\n
  8. I would like to do frightening things.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now add up all the numbers together. If you scored between 8 and 16, you are a low sensation-seeker. If you scored between 16 and 28, you’re about average for sensation-seeking. If you scored over 28, you’re a high sensation-seeker.<\/p>\n

    Today on the show, I unpack what these categories of personality mean with Dr. Kenneth Carter, a clinical psychologist, a professor, and the author of Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies<\/em><\/a>. Ken explains how sensation-seeking exists on a spectrum between chill seekers, who like safety and calm routine, and thrill seekers, who enjoy chaos, risk, and novelty. He shares how there are actually four components to high sensation-seeking, and which two tend to get people in trouble. And we talk about whether being high or low sensation-seeking is a matter of nature or nurture, how high sensation-seekers fare in romantic relationships and what they should consider in choosing a career, and what the world’s chill seekers can learn from its thrill seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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