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experience (“th<strong>in</strong>ker, dreamer”), conscientiousness(“idealist”), and neuroticism(“shy <strong>in</strong>dividual”).A long l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> poets, scientists, andphilosophers have also tended to groupthese traits together. All the way back<strong>in</strong> Genesis, the earliest book <strong>of</strong> theBible, we had cerebral Jacob (a “quietman dwell<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> tents” who later be<strong>com</strong>es“Israel,” mean<strong>in</strong>g one whowrestles <strong>in</strong>wardly with God) squar<strong>in</strong>g<strong>of</strong>f <strong>in</strong> sibl<strong>in</strong>g rivalry with his brother,the swashbuckl<strong>in</strong>g Esau (a “skillfulhunter” and “man <strong>of</strong> the field”). In classicalantiquity, the physicians Hippocratesand Galen famously proposedthat our temperaments—and dest<strong>in</strong>ies—werea function <strong>of</strong> our bodilyfluids, with extra blood and “yellowbile” mak<strong>in</strong>g us sangu<strong>in</strong>e or choleric(stable or neurotic extroversion), andan excess <strong>of</strong> phlegm and “black bile”767/929

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