Traits
A trait is a single dial in how a mind runs. Turned up it is a strength, turned down it is a different strength, and somewhere in the middle is most of us.
Traits written so far
These are the traits with pages today, grouped by the layer of the mind they live in. More arrive as the genome is written out.
Foundation
7 traits
Emotional Amplitude
How big feelings land.
Core EF
Emotional Modulation
Whether a feeling can be steered mid-flight.
Core EF
Future Memory
Whether an intention fires when its moment comes.
Core EF
Memory Glue
How fast new learning sets before it fades.
Core EF
Memory Reach
Whether what you know arrives when you call for it.
Core EF
Sensory Load
How loudly the world arrives.
Core EF
Threat Sensitivity
How fast uncertain becomes unsafe.
Core EF
Drive & Fuel
12 traits
Effort Cost
How expensive a task feels before you start.
Modulator
Emotional Echo
Whether other people's feelings land in your body.
Amplifier
Energy Pool
Whether the tank holds a week.
Modulator
Inner Drive
Whether the thing genuinely matters to you.
Amplifier
Interest Ignition
The key that actually turns the gate.
Modulator
Mastery Hunger
How hard the gap between good and better pulls.
Amplifier
Momentum
Once moving, whether you stay moving.
Amplifier
Recognition Fuel
How much being seen powers the engine.
Amplifier
Recovery Rate
Whether rest actually refills you.
Modulator
Self-Steering
How much choosing it yourself changes the fuel.
Amplifier
Social Appetite
Whether people are fuel or overhead.
Amplifier
Sustained Effort
How long effort holds before it collapses.
Core EF
Integration & Meaning
15 traits
Attention Drift
Whether overload steals the thread.
Modulator
Cause Compass
Where blame and credit point by default.
Modulator
Idea Flow
How fast new ideas arrive.
Amplifier
Idea Fusion
Whether two ideas melt into a third.
Amplifier
Idea Web
How much arrives attached to one thought.
Amplifier
Inner Observer
How clearly you watch your own mind work.
Core EF
Inner Voice
How much executive work your self-talk actually does.
Core EF
Meaning Hunger
How hard experience demands to be understood.
Amplifier
Meaning Weave
How far one word travels once it lands.
Amplifier
Mistake Weight
How heavily a mistake lands on the self.
Modulator
Pattern Pull
How quickly structure jumps out of ambiguity.
Modulator
Story Thread
Whether your life reads as one continuous story.
Modulator
Synthesis
Whether many threads become one model.
Amplifier
Thinking in Words
Whether thought arrives already in language.
Amplifier
Word Finding
Whether the word arrives when the meaning does.
Modulator
Execution
15 traits
Attention Stamina
How long focus holds once it is allocated.
Core EF
Blueprinting
Whether intentions become step-by-step paths.
Amplifier
Branching Futures
How many tomorrows run at once.
Amplifier
Certainty Pull
How loudly not-knowing demands an answer.
Modulator
Feeling Forecast
How vividly tomorrow can be felt today.
Amplifier
Future Pull
How much tomorrow still pulls when now is on the table.
Modulator
Gear Shift
What it costs to change frames.
Modulator
Goal Grip
Whether the why survives the doing.
Core EF
Inner Clock
Whether your sense of time matches the clock.
Core EF
Mental Simulation
How vividly the mind runs the future before it arrives.
Amplifier
Mental Workspace
How much can stay live in mind at once.
Core EF
Priority Signal
Whether one demand rises above the rest.
Modulator
Signal Filter
How much noise gets in before you start.
Core EF
Starting Gate
The threshold between deciding and doing.
Modulator
Time Horizon
Whether the future feels approaching or just known.
Core EF