Course 1, Discussion 2: The Big 5
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Begin by taking the Big 5 test and answering the following questions. You can also read more on the Big 5 here and below.
✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
✒️ Please reply to at least 1 of your peers in this thread with encouraging or supportive words!
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@Hope
✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I learned that I can do better to keep things organized. This area requires my time and attention. Once I manage to stay organized, my life will improve hopefully.
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Open-Mindedness: You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.
Conscientiousness: You are neither organized nor disorganized.
Extraversion: You tend to shy away from social situations.
Agreeableness: You find it easy to express irritation to others.
Negative emotionality: You tend to become anxious or nervous.
I can improve my personal life by acknowledging my strengths and working on my weaknesses. Gaining awareness of our strengths and weakness can certainly help us with our personal life. I realized that I'm good at assertive communication, and I can use this skill positively in my life. I also realized that I need to work on being more social.
✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
@Hope✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I took this test a few times and the results are the same...
Very Open to New Experiences / Very Conscientious / Introverted / Very Agreeable / Relaxed
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Strengths - Open, Conscientious, Agreeable, & Relaxed - good for my profession - Architect - I enjoy being an Introvert in fact, I prefer it to being an Extrovert. I am an Extrovert with Friends I like these traits and if I see a lack or a hindrance, I wish I was more Extroverted in new Social Settings, but then I love observing.
@CharlieDont37
Left out these scores:
Open-Mindedness - 98%
Conscientiousness - 99%
Extraversion- 26% Extroversion is limited to my friends otherwise, a wallflower
Agreeableness 98%
Negative Emotionality - 25% I am probably lower - I am passionate about areas and things that I care about, but I keep all that to myself unless I am with someone like-minded.
@CharlieDont37
It's nice to see that you're so agreeable and open. I also scored similarly! (:
How would you say that your conscientiousness is expressed in your life?
@Gilbird
Hi, Gibird.
Thank you for responding to my post.
I am at a loss to respond, but here are some thoughts on this trait:
Not sure if this is who I am or what I embraced, but someone told me as a young adult -
'if you ain't gonna do things "half-assed", you might as well not do them at all.'
Somehow that made sense to me. I can take a mess, but in my own life, I prefer order.
Here is a bit more about 'Agreeableness'. I can be a awkward trait if 'NO' is not in your vocabulary. I find if I manage that response and choose and not choose, then, I manage. I am an Architect.
Is It Good to Be Agreeable?
Of course, it is always a plus to have the capacity to collaborate, socialize, and build positive relationships with others. And "agreeable" people are likely to do well in fields in which these skills are important.
Agreeableness, however, can have its drawbacks. Agreeable people, for example, may find it very difficult to work alone, analyze the validity of arguments, make difficult decisions, or give bad news. As a result, a low level of agreeableness may make it easier to succeed in some fields
Marketing and public relations
Human resources
Fundraising
Sales
Politics
Event management
Teaching
Medicine
Military
Science
Upper management
Entrepreneurship
Arts criticism
Conscientiousness
Among each of the personality traits, conscientiousness is one defined by high levels of thoughtfulness, good impulse control, and goal-directed behaviors.1 Highly conscientious people tend to be organized and mindful of details. They plan ahead, think about how their behavior affects others, and are mindful of deadlines.
Someone scoring lower in this primary personality trait is less structured and less organized. They may procrastinate to get things done, sometimes missing deadlines completely.
Spends time preparing
Finishes important tasks right away
Pays attention to detail
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Enjoys having a set schedule
Dislikes structure and schedules
Makes messes and doesn't take care of things
Fails to return things or put them back where they belong
Procrastinates important tasks
Fails to complete necessary or assigned tasks
@CharlieDont37
it is important to see our strength as well as our weaknesses when it comes to this test. Sometimes they’re not exactly what we thought initially prior to taking a personality/psychology assessment like this. Being open is really important because it can help flow conversations go a lot smoother. As well as realizing the things that we scored low on taking that as a verb opportunity, it can help us figure out what we need to work on more
@Hope
My main strengths are open-mindedness, extraversion (friendliness and sociability), and agreeableness. I was already aware that I am fairly open-minded and accepting of others, but it was interesting to see that my friendliness, sociability, talkative around others, and fun-loving nature does count as extraversion, even if I will not seek it out if I have the opportunity to be alone. It is good to note that these are percentile scores, but I learned that I am much more open-minded and extroverted than I initially thought. Over the past few years, I have seen myself embrace leadership positions, become more assertive, and less tolerant of hypocrisy. Perhaps my results would have been very different even 4 years ago.
@Gilbird hey, glad to see your reflections. Seems like you have improved yourself all these years and your consistency has paid off ! Wishing you the best throughout this journey.
What were the main things you learned about yourself?
My results did feel true to me. According to the results, I am more Open to new experiences and conscientious, agreeable. I am also more Extraverted than Introverted according to the test which was the first time a test showed me this, I am more of a ambivert I think. Also the test showed that I more nervous/high strung which i think is true.
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I recognised a lot of my strengths and will try to enhance them. I am reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful. This helps me to be more goal oriented and achieve all the things I really want to. I am also good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous which is true hehe, thats why I tried to become a listener
@Hope
✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
it surprised me when I am negative emotionally as I don’t see that as a quality of myself and neither do my friends and family. I am able to validate others emotionsher,so not having strong emotional regulation is kind of surprising to me.
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Agreeableness and Extraversion- it’s important have a kind, calm, and nurturing personality when interacting with others, it’s also important depending on the situation you find yourself in to be agreeable to others as we never know what’s going through their head and you need to remain forgiving.
@Hope Thank you for your post!
What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I'm a very altruistic person
What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways, I am good-natured, courteous, and supportive. Through this strenghts, I want to help others <3
@Hope okay, let's be real. I was more disappointed than surprised seeing the results. Maybe the test was not kind to me or I was not kind to myself.
O - 47
C - 1
E - 43
A - 0
N - 91
I consider myself to be a harsh and rude person but seeing this, I feel like I got all the negative traits.
My MBTI personality test was atleast relatable and convincing. My strengths according to the test are
- Analytical
- Curious
- Original
- Open-minded
- Objective
But I am judging myself now.
@Hope
I got more of an openness trait and least neuroticism. My strengths as per the test is that i'm more creative, adventurous, and intellectual.
@pandanfe
Those are fantastic traits to have as a listener! :)
@Hope
✒️ What were the main things you learned about yourself?
Most of the results I felt like I already knew about myself, but I did learn that I have negative emotionality (tends to be anxious/nervous) despite outwardly being a very calm person.
✒️ What are your strengths as per the test and how can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Per the test results, I am open-minded, reliable, good-natured, courteous, and supportive. I think these are qualities that can be helpful in building and establishing strong relationships with others in my life.
@lovelyApple6441
I agree with your answer. I also feel that I already knew most of it