Habits,+Neuroses,+Talents

__**Habits**__
 * Always makes an outline before writing an essay.
 * Scribbles in all of the academic books/articles he reads.
 * Gets up early and starts working early.
 * Tends to walk to everywhere if he can. Doesn't take a vehicle unless the destination is too far away.
 * I tend to stick with a project because I rarely, if ever, begin a project about a topic that I don't find interesting or stimulating.
 * I'm intensely interested in paradoxes when I write or analyses. I'm always trying to understand why impossible events have indeed happened.

__**Neuroses**__
 * Can't stand still when writing. Always getting up and pacing around the room every few minutes/paragraphs.
 * Has difficulty reading material not available on hardcopy.
 * Has difficulties working after 5pm.
 * Has difficulties working if he hasn't started by 10am.
 * Tends to write, read, and think abstractly. Must force himself to work in empirical material.
 * Likes to move to new projects if nothing new has popped up in a while to catch his attention.
 * Can't use the computer to plan his essays. Must write his outlines and notes on paper.
 * Worries about narrowing down his object of analysis without having visited a fieldsite to see how things are on the ground.

__**Talents**__
 * Seeing connections between different arguments.
 * Synthesis work.
 * Can manage to find an interest in just about any subject matter.
 * Time management.
 * Finding analytical patterns in empirical material.
 * Doesn't mind admitting he's wrong and then following a more promising direction.