Big Five Personality Traits

There’s an established psychology of personality traits. They go like this:

• Openness - openness to new experiences and ideas
• Conscientiousness - order and ability to do things on time
• Extroversion - sociability, interest in others
• Agreeableness - empathy, focus on being right vs. having good interactions
• Neuroticism - degree to which one experiences intense negative emotions

These are well-established in psychology and worth committing to memory. You can remember them with the OCEAN acronym.

Whether you or high or low in a trait is not a value judgement on you. These are ideas you can use to think about your personality and your interactions with other people.