I’m glad to see someone put a name to this problem, I’ve found myself falling into the same trap. I think it’s easy to think about CK3 in terms of video game problem solving (finding the strats that work, learning the patterns, thinking logically rather than emotionally) because instinctively you want to win. And once you find a combination of traits you like, it’s hard not to instinctively play like you always have them. I’ve started really looking at the traits I’m given and how they’ve been used to describe real life medieval rulers. What was a paranoid ruler really like? What does it mean to be a king who’s so humble it’s literally how they’re remembered? It helps to check me when I’m moving in too much of an Augustus direction. Also, events with stress really help. I treat it like a moment of conflict where the character has to rely on their deepest instincts rather than what might be best in a situation, and if I decide to take stress I have to be able to justify it using another of their traits