Mark Manson

The Big Five are called the Big Five because these are the most replicated, dependable, durable, persistent, stable traits of human characteristics and behaviors.

that we have ever found.

Is there anything you know of that's been replicated more across more cultures and more consistently than the Big Five?

And across that big of data sets too?

No, I don't know of anything.

I think, I don't know this for sure, but I would guess if I was a betting man, which I am, I would bet a lot of money that the Big Five is the single most replicated finding ever.

in psychology period full stop yeah so this is like as credible as it gets right right it doesn't mean it's perfect necessarily it's not perfect absolutely the best thing we have right yeah if you've ever heard the acronym ocean right so that stands for openness to new experiences conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism

And I'll just give a very, very brief explanation of what each one of those is.

So openness to new experiences is generally people who are open to new experiences.

So it maps pretty well to creativity, adventurousness,

Novelty seeking.

Novelty seeking people who, you know, if you if you're somebody who like loves parties, you love trips, you love travel, you love spontaneity.

You're very open minded about how other people live or other people's ideas.

You're probably very high in openness to new experiences.

People who are very low in openness, they tend to be very regimented.

They tend to like rituals and routines.

They are not very open minded.

They're very traditional.

They like to do things the way

things have always been done because it's more dependable it's more reliable the interesting thing about all five of these traits is that none of them is necessarily right or wrong we're all high or low in all of them each one comes with trade-offs right so if you're high in openness to experience you're probably going to be a very creative individual you're probably going to be a very spontaneous individual and that's great in a lot of contexts but it's also bad in other contexts