need for cognition

A 25 question quiz designed to measure how much you enjoy learning new things and thinking about deep subjects. What do you score?

1. I enjoy engaging in intellectual debates.
2. I try to learn something new everyday.
3. I often have debates with myself in my head.
4. Thinking is overrated because it often leads to "paralysis by analysis."
5. I enjoy questioning and challenging my beliefs to see if they can be improved.
6. I prefer to live in the moment rather than think about the future.
7. It's better to just jump into something rather than wait and plan.
8. I enjoy reading books and articles about science and philosophy.
9. As long as it gets the job done, I don't care how or why it works.
10. I try to find the meaning or reasoning behind why things happen in my life.
11. I prefer work that involves strategy, planning, and brainstorming.
12. Intelligence is one of the most important values in life.
13. Practice is always more important than theory.
14. I value my education more than the average person.
15. I'd rather take an easy class and get a good grade than take a difficult class and learn a lot.
16. I spend a lot of time thinking about issues even when they don't affect me personally.
17. I consider myself a rational and logical person.
18. People think too much in general.
19. I can spend long periods of time just sitting and thinking.
20. I'm always interested in finding new ways of looking at the same thing.
21. I change my beliefs more often than the average person.
22. I like tasks that require little thought once I've learned them.
23. I like coming up with my own theories about stuff in life.
24. I like solving puzzles and complex problems.
25. I'm always coming up with new ideas even if I don't act on them.