What is Big Five personality?
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Have you heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
If so, you should know that it’s considered mostly useless junk by actual psychologists. Few to none of them see much value in its personality profiles.
“Big Five” is a personality model meant to actually describe real human personality. Which means it doesn’t sort you into ~~Hogwarts houses~~ “personality types,” it just describes how much you display (or don’t display) five key personality traits: agreeableness, extraversion, openness to (new) experience, neuroticism, and conscientiousness.
You could think of these as being, more or less
* Agreeableness: How much you favor social harmony, cooperation, compromise, and teamwork vs self-interest, competition, skepticism, and individual action
* Extraversion: How sociable, energetic, and emotive you are when interacting with other people, vs feeling drained by social contact and generally keeping things to yourself
* Openness to Experience: the degree to which you are curious, imaginative, and creative, vs traditionalist, down to earth, and conventional
* Neuroticism: how prone you are to being “stressed out” and to unstable or dramatic mood shifts, vs being mostly calm, stable, and resilient
* Conscientiousness: How much you value planning, organization, structure, and fine detail vs spontaneity, flexibility, adaptation, and broad strokes.
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