While introversion is often stigmatized, extroversion is associated with addiction, personality disorders, and risky behaviour. [side note: extrAversion is also acceptable spelling] Extroversion: everyone’s favourite personality trait. On the surface anyway. Understandably so: extroversion is assertiveness, gregariousness, warmth, charisma, and social ability. All very endearing [...]
Get organized, productive, and mentally healthy with this short guide. Getting organized can do wonders for your mental health. Fact is, we crave function. We want to feel useful to others and ourselves. Feeling useless, or otherwise being poorly organized (lack of routine, etc.) directly [...]
Negative emotion (i.e. neuroticism) is manageable and, potentially, a powerful aid in life. People higher in neuroticism have more active fight and flight systems; they are more sensitive to stimulation and threat. [It looks like there’s overlap between neuroticism and what the scientific community is [...]
If you like fantasy, wacky things like anime, or respond quite emotionally to art or music, you might be high in trait openness. Chances are, you feel a bit like a weirdo at times. Likely, you're creative, open-minded, explorative, imaginative, abstract-minded, and higher in emotionality. Open [...]
Disclaimer! I’m not an expert on the Big Five, though I’ve been intaking a lot of content on it. This is some of what I’ve interpreted from the data and my own experience. Adventures in Self-Discovery Part 3 “I usually prefer to make a rough [...]
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