High
With a high score, novelty pulls at you all by itself. You read difficult things on purpose, notice beauty in odd corners, and treat 'we've always done it this way' as an invitation to try another way. Strange places sound like plans, not warnings. Being thought a bit odd costs you nothing — sometimes it's the point. The cost is restlessness: the familiar can turn gray too fast, and you can trade a good thing you have for an interesting thing you haven't met yet.
Low
With a low score, you invest in the known. You'd rather deepen a favorite than gamble on a stranger — the trusted place, the proven method, the music that has already earned its shelf. Practical beats novel: you ask what works, not what's new, and an idea doesn't win you over just because it glitters. There's real value here that experimenters only rediscover later — the tried and tested got that name by working. The cost is unopened doors: some of what you'd love most sits on the far side of a first time you keep not having.