Neophile: A new word that I just learned, that maybe helps me understand myself better
While reading a book, I came across a word that I never heard, and had to look it up. “Neophiliac”. After looking through its Wikipedia, there’s a lot of things here that relate to me. It’s kind of scary.
Neophiles/Neophiliacs have the following basic characteristics
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The ability to adapt rapidly to extreme change.
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A distaste or downright loathing of tradition, repetition, and routine.
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A tendency to become bored quickly with old things.
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A desire, bordering on obsession in some cases, to experience novelty.
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A corresponding and related desire to create novelty by creating or achieving something and/or by stirring social or other forms of unrest.
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A complete objection to or distrust of commitment.