Jordan Peterson: Big Five - A Quick Look
2021 ж. 23 Қаң.
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In this video Dr. Jordan Peterson talks big five (big 5) personality traits, extraversion and introversion. Listen to how he dives into this psychology topic!
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Surprisingly, the Big 5 has been a great tool for me to gain more clarity regarding the reasons I haven't lived so far up to my potential. My personality consists of very high openness (very reflective and imaginative) very low contientiousness (chaotic procrastinator), high extraversion, high agreeableness (kind and polite), extremely high neuroticism ☠. Despite this very dysfunctional personality, I still cannot be regarded as occupationally unsuccessful. My IQ (mensa member) helped me compensate it. I have now decided to combat my high neuroticism with antidepressants and my contientiousness through concrete goals and strong will. I am 37 and I most probably have the whole second half of my life in front of me. By doing these two things, I will be much happier and I will utilise my talents.
Good job recognizing your downfalls and making the best of them, I hope to do the same. I’m in the same boat with the same problem but for different reasons. I have a low sense of openness & extroversion, am extremely disagreeable while being fairly conscientious and basically don’t have a hint of neuroticism. This has led me to lead my life like a robot, no negative emotion or procrastination so I reach goals with ease. The downfall being that I’m such a disagreeable, “my way or the highway” type that at almost 23 my social prospects and growth are pathetic. Recently found a report from when I was a 6yr old going to a magnet school. It paints a similar picture. Summed up by “this kid is brilliant but he’s basically a social outlier.” This dampened my belief in my social growth, but it’s an important thing so I hope I can
What kind of person with high neuroticism and openness would boldly claim to still have 40 years to live? Poser
@@thorstenmarquardt7274 Come on now don't hate on someone attempting to run counter to their auto-pilot nature. What you deem as being a poser is a person turning a new leaf. Your words are that of a person who hasn't garnered the confidence or faith in trusting the process over time. Misery loves company, I guess.
Antidepressants? You could be eating poorly; gut bacteria have a major influence on mental health. Just a thought.
@@vladimirofsvalbard9477 my friend, you are right! Since I eat one raw 🧄(a piece of it I mean) I feel much better.
I don't understand why people don't find him VERY neutral in any topic. He'll point out the parts that he doesn't know and always makes it clear where this info comes from and people just refuse to look? He's open to changing his mind IF you can provide actual evidence, he's just mostly correct.
Reason is simply , he says the truth with clarity and without bias and people hate to be at the mercy of the truth. People would consciously and unconsciously lie but the truth wouldn't allow them an unchecked conscious. It's the same reason Jesus was crucified.
When he speaks about psychology, he's very neutral and correct, that's his forte after all. The political stuff he speaks about tends to be a bit biased. I think it's because he gets attacked by one side (the left) so he adopts more and more ideas from the right. Again, in politics only, not in psychology.
People dont care about facts or truth anymore. They care about feelings. Its more about how they feel about him because of what media has told them to feel than his messages
He’s not neutral on Marxism. There are a wide spectrum of Marxism. He often stereotypes all Marxism as the extreme one.
He’s not always neutral, far from it
I can never be that guy that came late to his class
The worst feeling ever. 😫 😂
Either you’re high in conscientiousness or openness
@championchap if you’re highly open you’d probably be genuinely interested, thus intrinsically motivated to be on time so you don’t miss anything.
@@Benjumanjo me lol
@@Benjumanjo He is probably high in nueroticism
It is incredible how he can talk like a stream of consciousness. I'm the orderly, timely, conservative kind.
I am an agreeable personality, I am forever helping people, I sometimes I forget to do for myself. I never look for payback for any good deed I do for someone. Seeing people happy for some reason, I get energy from that. wow, this is amazing.
I consider myself to be very high in contentiousness but I wasn't always that way. As I became older and, starting at around 25, I realised that my life trajectory shall we say, was not going to land well. My future began to matter to me and I started to worry about my future. I started to work hard. Seven years of tertiary education starting with returning to school as an adult student, followed by two years a polytechnic, and finally four years at university ending with a computer science degree. Now 57, I feel that one answer to the question of where contentiousness comes from is quite simply self preservation. Fear for one's future is a powerful motivator.
Thankfully I was born an INTJ. I thought decades into the future out hustled all my comp. Graduated from Dental school at age 24 retired at age 45 and still considered a fire retiree. Now I’ve been my spending my time swing trading the stock market and Heli skiing in Alaska and British Columbia! My wife says I have Asperger‘s but I don’t just the traits of being a robot! 🤓
I recently did the big 5 test...and everything was on point, I knew a few things before but reading the break down of it all individually gives me more insight about myself. I'm also an introvert and I definitely can say without apology that I suck at sales jobs, I didn't know few years ago until last year...I love being in the background of things in my own space with a schedule for the day. ..but I love the test and i think everyone should do the test to have an understanding of who they are so that their life would be less complicated and little bit easier to maneuver goals.
No Mr. Peterson. We know how to improve intelligence. Watch you videos. Study them. Understand and implement them. That levels you up! 🙏👍❤️
Thanks for the explanation Mr. Peterson!
Love this man
Excellent explanation sir 🙏
Glad to be learning and glad it seems to be well researched
What really surprises me is that Peterson doesn’t understand what an introvert and an extravert is when it comes to managing their energy it has nothing to do with whether they like people or they don’t
I am the highest on "conscientiousness" and the second "openness to experiences", and medium on "agreeableness". I really struggled in my country of birth (China) but thrive in the US. I think in an authoritarian regime China my "openness to experiences" often was labeled as evil but that that same trait makes it very easy for me to assimilate to western culture.
Yeah, I find people's true forms in personality are most beautiful. It saddens me such traits as openness can be treated as evil like you describe. I see the colour in everything, not just in what one regime happens to facilitate. Globally I guess we strive as a humanity to express all of peoples good and quirky sides, as well as obedient and serving sides - being in a bit of a puberty now. Please know* China so to speak would not hate you if they knew who you were. Hell is bent on destroying, but God loves all people. Thanks for sharing. :)
I think pretty much all asian countries are the same
@@amalksuresh2538 Very articulate observation there ;)
I guess I'm not very industrious or conscientious from other videos, but I learn I also can't focus on remembering from a book. I agree that closing a book and summarising is helpful, but I can only do that for like a very bare minimum of existence and then crave a dynamic and immediately changing environmont for the big part to make me feel like I am living
Big Five was a very insightful test. Thank you. Dr Peterson.
What test did you take? Would you recommend it?
Yes, it’s good.
Wow how real this speech is. Hats off for your brave sharing. And you are sharing it to world. Does it mean you still alone? I understand how painful would have been. First my big hugs to you. Very painful to know someone cheated you when you were 13. I am thinking about your choices at that moment…. I can not understand.
While not everyone is creative, I could see myself being high on the creativity side of things and not simply out of my ego. I’ve always loved nerdy shit like writing fiction and D&D and all that. My hobbies are oriented around art and music. I got confused and frustrated when I was younger why people couldn’t enjoy this stuff as much as I did and now I understand the variation in human personality better it’s easier to see why that is. Other people have a different personality which means they like different stuff, and that’s okay.
Yes everyone is different. But us creative people are better. We are the ones that make all the good shit. Other people are are bankers and estate agents and shit. Who needs em... Joking 😀
6:42 my niche. The social niche 8:21 the plan of attack for my navigation
Essay and schedules outline misery from a calendar planner
Industriousness can have extremes and the right niche determines the right extremity
13:18
@10:28 When I study hard I get really tired and start to fall asleep after an hour or two. I then think of how I would tell this to others or how I would use it in real life. I do tend to retain a lot of what I read and this is probably why.
I have a quite contradictory combination of high openess and high conscientiousness so whenever I do a big 5 test they trend to fluctuate quite a lot due to them countering each other.
I find during my years as a psychology student that factor analysis is an acid test for those psych tests competing for validity and reliability.
Rated as high in conscientiousness, openness, agreebleness, neuroticism and extra version but I am definitely an introvert high in assertiveness and low in enthusiasm so wonder if that skewed my results on the test
I am a total introvert and the man I married is very extroverted. We have been married 57 years. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Adjustments have been made!!! 😳
That means that your at least in your late seventies. What is it like to be old?
@@joshuadavis5899 😂😂😂 It’s an adventure, for sure!
It's very fun for me, being a ambivert (someone who is introverted and extroverted) because I have the ability to adapt and adjust if need be, but it's become so natural for me to actually go away and find quiet and less active places in the midst of everyday activities. Finding ways to go within while everyone is without and moving around.
I recently did the test and I'm high both in consciousness (80%) and openness (81%). While on the other three I was in the middle, more or less; Neuroticism (59%), Agreeableness (48%), and Extroversion (56%). While I see myself as more introvert. I don't know what to think about the results lol. I really like to stay at home most of the time but also I love to travel, go to concerts, bars and play cards with friends all night.
Just remember that oddly enough, you describe the test rather than the test describing you in sense of what is most important. That sounds controversial, but what I mean is that your own reality always goes above a description of said reality. Perhaps preferences from the country you live at or some random factors make it so that you see yourself more introverted than the test does it too.
@@impendingblessing2616 true
4:35 - "Is this in the exam bro?"
I’ve taken the test myself and done some reading into the traits and I have one big issue with it: I disagree with the way that Extraversion and Openness are both categorized and defined. It feels to me that Sociability and Creativity would be better descriptors, with more easily quantifiable and definable categories.
I find that the Big 5 test fails me in a very specific way: Openness. The score here never accurately describes me, and I think that's because in intellectual, imaginative, and artistic expression I'm highly extremely open. However, I'm extremely closed when it comes to life experiences. I hate trying new things, I hate eating new foods, I hate visiting new locations, I hate trying new styles, I hate meeting new people. Despite my intense curiosity of exploring new ideas, I also see an immense value in the time-tested quality of tradition and I very much prefer stability over revolution. I wonder if the internet is the catalyst for this, as in my desire for exploring the world is entirely satisfied without even having to get out of my chair, and I wonder had I been born a century earlier if I would be more adventurous or not. Am I really just a high openness person channeling my desires through a very strict outlet? Regardless, the Big 5 test always gives me questionable final results. And I think this personality quirk of mine is something that makes all personality quizzes fail on me to some extent. Because in my other traits I'm very extremely in one direction and the test describes me fine. I'm extremely low in agreeableness, I often score a 0 there. I'm very high in neuroticism. And I'm extremely low on extroversion. And I'm normally pretty middle of the road in conscientiousness. I don't think I've ever met someone with a personality similar to mine, but I guess that makes sense considering I hate meeting new people and people who are like me probably hate meeting new people too. So I guess I'm just destined not to meet anyone like me.
Sounds like you are an INTJ like me. Only 2% of males and 1% of females are this personality type.
@@adriandmd that personality describes me the best but out of the 4 times I took the test I only got that personality once. MBTI is notorious for bad test-retest reliability.
Hi, I am exactly what you describe, to the point I've even written down what you say because it describes me perfectly. Are you a boy or a girl? It's ironic that I feel drawn to you. What's your name?
I think you're open to experiences it's just that you're convinced those ones are going to be negative so you probably trade high on neuroticism.
@@infinitel00p94 maybe you didn't read where they said they hate meeting new people.
My temperament is "just stay away & let me read my books."
But if you're a good looking girl I'll say hi, because im attracted to that ;)
I'm happy but not very social. I know there are studies that claim loneliness is bad for health, I can see it could be, but I suppose being alone doesn't mean you're lonely. I'm content in my marriage and with my family. I already feel it's hard to get time alone. I'd like a close friend otherwise but it's been more stressful trying to find one again vs just having quality alone time. I feel generally pretty happy, honestly it's one of the holdbacks. So many people are obsessed with complaining about what I see as miniscule. I don't tend to partake in that. Happier to enjoy the little things and complain about what I view as consequential on a larger scale. Most ppl I've met outside of my family/marriage seem to be opposite.
What about those people who go between the traits. Like at times one is extraverted and at times introverted. Or conscientious at times and disorganized at other times. And can openness juxtapose conscientious and cause internal conflict?
That's why the test gives you a precise percentage and describes accordingly
Mbti- INFJ Enneagram- 8w9 Big 5- openness 92% conscientiousness 62%, extraversion 58%, agreeableness 35%, neuroticism 52% Astrology - Gemini sun, Leo moon, Virgo rising ❤🎉🤜🤛
People shouldn’t be testing themselves. Most people will rate themselves higher on things like agreeableness. Also, I’m introvert and happy 😄
I have found that to me, it seems that the meaning of life is to ensure that human life continues... That is why there is such variety within human personality eg. why there are 16 basic personaliy types according to Jung-myers-Briggs and 3-4 basic reactions to major stress (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn): it all ensures that someone survives, at least someone + the Bigger picture is that the goal of life is to ensure not only the survival of the individual... but especially the survival of the clan/family (even genetically), the nation and of mankind as a species (the biological meaning of life) (religious meaning may be different). In one or more ways.... A person can have children and do their best to ensure that their children manage and eventually have offspring of their own, and/or a person can do things/stuff to help others with this (nurses, doctors, au-pairs, teachers, social workers, therapists, soldiers, police officers, etc..) and/or do something that helps mankind survive (biologists, ecology, politicians, etc.) - all of that helps in the big picture. +++ Survival of the individual, the clan/family, the nation and of mankind as a species..... ++ What about Tall Poppy Syndrom? Sometimes a certain society rejects someone because they are just so different... they stick out because of some traits and then for those differences they get criticized/shunned, etc...... Imagine being an imigrant to North American from central Europe... from ancesters who were farmers for centuries... and you grow up in a big city in North American, but then mother gets schizofrenia a family moves back to central Europe after communism falls... and this person gets a very high university education (pharmacist, medical doctor, PhD, etc.).... add to this that the person is Christian but most of people in country of origin are atheist - where does that person fall in within society where they are...? Variety and differences among people help with survival of the group, but why is there tall poppy syndrom? Being different is a basic survival strategy for the group, even if people in the group do not see it that way.
How do we find our niche in which our personality is strongest and the things we do give us happiness (because of our personality)?
Is your house a mess or is it orderly? Honest question..
Try lots of different things that spark an interest in you.
I am low Neurotism, High Contienoious, High Extrversion, High agreableness, High Openness
0:42 where can find this adjectives list?
he states them at the beginning. Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness. (The big 5 traits)
@@lukesoliman647 these are nouns wtf
@@lukesoliman647 that is not the list he is talking about
@@msa3533 he’s discussing the adjectives that later created the big five through factor analysis
I did the big 5 test, I found it to be way off base, especially with conscientiousness, I hold down two decent paying jobs, one is a hobby that pays well the other a state management position, I can hate authority and rules and still be productive and on time, I found a lot of contradictions, I honestly have never felt anything more accurate than the Myer Briggs test, that has opened my eyes much wider than Petersons Big 5. A clever way to capitalise on his fame and teachings.
I guess I should count myself lucky for my personality
Reading a few comments so I can enumerate the big 5 and thought that you can use the acronym OCEAN, which enables me to remember all 5.
Jordan Peterson notes that the big five personality traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. As an autistic Libertarian, I must note that there is no mention of a love of Liberty and a resistance to oppression; why? because such _feelings_ only manifest themselves in such a few people,.. they are usually safely discounted. Also, I seem to be entirely missing the third tier of Maslow's hierarchy of values in that I am not only indifferent to social status and power,.. such things are revolting to me; which probably goes a long way to explain why hypergamous women, in general, want nothing to do with autistic men.
Thanks David, I very much liked your comments here. In one of the other videos on the topic, Peterson explains the nature of this work. It is a cluster analysis of adjectives. This list emerged from an analysis of the top 80% of the adjectives used in the English language, so you may be right about liberty as a minority view. Personally I associate Openness strongly with liberty. My entire career has been entrepreneurial because I hate being told what to do. I want to find my own way, solve new problems and dance with the thrill of it. On your second point regarding social status and power, that is not what I see generally in the world. Only a minority chase power as such, e.g. politicians. I think the rest of us chase excellence as we define it, and power kind of follows. I love showing companies how to improve their performance. In turn, they follow my leadership. It is not about power, it is about excellence.
@@timothyjohn8877 *_Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power._* ~ Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,_ 1951 *_People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a 'have' type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a 'have not' type of self._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in God, but never without belief in a Devil._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations._* ~ Eric Hoffer *_There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail._* ~ Eric Hoffer
@@davidhunt7427 I will look up Eric Hoffer. Thanks for introducing me to his thinking and stimulating my own. As I read through these, I think about how the world has changed over the last 70 years. We now live in a globally interlocked economy, where digital assets are exploding in value and seemingly every country is spacefaring. In record time we have the ability to produce next generation vaccines that are more effective than anything that came before, yet a big portion of the populace prefers to live in the darkness of their superstitions. We are moving beyond the point where physical labor is replaced by automation to where artificial intelligence is replacing the natural intelligence of doctors in the operating room. We have created a planet where environmental catastrophes are increasing, forcing mass migrations of the dispossessed and threatening the futures of our children. In this environment, wealth has continued to concentrate among the most wealthy, those with the intellectual and financial capacity to maneuver in this amazing landscape. But as Peterson has noted elsewhere, it is the proximate variance between the rich and poor that foments social unrest. This brings me to a few questions: 1. How do we collaborate to simultaneously tackle these challenges and maintain our freedom? 2. How do we reform our political system to reward effectiveness instead of power? 3. How do we reform our economic system to reward capitalist innovation while extending ladders to those willing to climb and caring for those unable to climb? 4. How do we sustain our democracy, the political expression of freedom, in the face of growing authoritarianism? 5. How do we change the economic system to provide sufficient resources to the underprivileged to maintain social calm?
@championchap I always wanted to marry, stay marry, and to have children,... but finding out (late in life) that I am autistic makes me appreciate why women have avoided me. Besides a great deal of chronic involuntary unemployment,.. I really don't seem to have any of the necessary harshness and ruthlessness than may well be a minimum necessity to survive, much less prosper, in this world. While autistics don't seem to be anywhere so hard to live with when other autistics are involved,.. we do seem to mix with _normy's_ like oil and water. For a social species, not to care about social power and status is like being a fish that doesn't care about water.
Because these are not really personality traits. They are just beliefs
What about the fact that different cultures seem to have different personality traits? And I don't just mean stereotypes. I've visited many, many countries, and some, for example, just seem to have way more introverts, others more extroverts, etc. Obviously there's variation within every culture, but clearly it can't all be explained at the individual, biological level.
I think a lot of it has to do with what they value and survival
Well I suppose you could argue that in certain environments, it was more evolutionary beneficial to develop certain traits more than others on average.
I am an openesses personality. 😊
Sir, JP: Regarding the influencers of Industriousness, it's about what motivates the person (barring for debilitating environmental factors). And the motivation is given by God by the way. (So the person can put it to the most egalitarian use?)
Can u be industrious but in unorderly
13:11 me: *trading age for memes* 😌
OCEAN is how I remember the big five
imagine being late from Peterson's class
the guy never uses period😳
Intelligent people usually like art? Suppose that says a few things about me. I have no time for most art as I view it as a pointless distraction. I enjoy a good book fiction and non-fiction but things such as poetry and painting interest me little. I prefer to spend my spare time analyzing stocks and investments rather than looking at art. To be fair I view my self as being of average to slightly above average intelligence but I also acknowledge I could have an IQ that is below average since I've never actually been tested.
People who think they are intelligent like art. Wasting time and resources for outdated art is not a very intelligent course of action in the 21st century where most diseases haven’t been cured yet
I generally find that people who score very high in the spatial/mathematical domain of intelligence tend to score lower in intellect(interest in ideas) and openness in general compared to those with high verbal iqs. I’m speaking anecdotally here, but I mean🤷♂️
Maybe intelligent people like complex forms of art like preferring classical music to rap,more metaphorical paintings to simple caricature.
And r on .4 might as well be random noise lol
The scale is -1 to 1, correct?
@@383mazda yes that’s the scale, but the relevance of correlations aren’t linear. A correlation of .5 is closer to 0 than .9 in terms of how meaningful it is
Are beavers industrious?
Right? I was wondering the same thing about squirrels and storing acorns for later. I suppose you'd have to conduct a study comparing the acorn-stashing habits of individual squirrels or the dam-building habits of individual beavers lol
Beavers just do what they do....they would laugh at the idea their labour is industrious. They just do until they die.
@@paulmeyer5482 So beavers are OCD?
@@joemahony4198 Just programmed to do their job. Perhaps a little. Beavers are critical.
@championchap birds fly and eat, bears trounce around and scare to eat the little ones, beavers build dams for their homes , eat and beaver things. Everything is industrious and chilled at the same time. Things just do. So do humans the epicenter animal. We do humans, eat, and when we came concious we built things. Like or dislike it is system of patterns in life that just happen.
Are ants not an industrious species?
Ants are industrious
✔️T R U E !
Hive minds always are …
I’m all over the place
Not sure about the connection he makes between extraversion and happiness.
Can u be non orderly and contioustiness
Its education, but in reality a person can be social and sometimes not social. It depends on where that human being is. there cannot be an unsocial humans in a slum and there cannot be a unsocial person in sophisticated or a pompous group. No one can be that group able . its not even genetic or acquired its just survival on a social constraint . Most humans must be ambiverts
Why will all your peers reject you if you don't have a father?
Lol. My hand-personaliy looks like a middle finger.
The big 5 is the corrupt version of myers briggs. It shows how easily of a tool a specific person is.
Lmao lemme tell y’all something: happiness is not extroversion. At all.
@championchap if you need a paper to tell you the difference between happiness and talking to everyone you meet you aren’t smart enough to understand the paper anyway
I strongly agree.
Totally agree. In fact, extroverts constantly need external stimulation to keep them happy.
Big 5 seems to be more geared towards usefulness to employers.
I'm a disagreeable woman and people hate my guts. I really dislike the disagreeable trait.
There are always neurotic son of a guns in the comment section which validates this theory.
I can't live with the american pronounciation of niche. I score quite high on orderliness though
Truth tellers are always vilified by postmodernists. That is why he is sooooo hated.
Jordan Peterson's traits, neuroticism 99/100, agreeableness 0/100, conscientiousness 50/100, openness 30/100, extroversion, 70/100.
In this case… every personality with a functional brain will be conservative…
Three day in a row KZhead posting videos of this liar, hypocrite, and drug user in my feed no matter what I tell the algorithm.
@championchap No. I am not. Can you read? What part of my comment refers to the video? I will not spend a second in a video made by a drug addict hypocrite liar. I am just piss KZhead keep pushing this drug junky into my feed.
@@dickusmaxximun8126 Someone’s jelly lol 😂
@@OcculticRomantic I guess you can not understand what you read either. Why I should be jealous of a liar, a hypocrite and a drug user? My role models do not lie, are hypocrites, or are drug addicts. I did not seek this video, KZhead posted that aberration on my feed.
shut up. he's not a liar you disrespectful commentor.
@@dickusmaxximun8126 OK so Jordan Peterson is not your role model then. Cool. One things for sure though, you will never be anyone's role model with your attitude.
Very poor at public speaking!
I think there is quite a lot of mutation of personality within one's life time. I tend to think these are not genetics traits so much as conditioning during childhood. You pick up as a child those things that are conditioned by culture, which is mostly your parents perception of the environment, and the family environment. People as they mature are free to change their personality to better suit their environment. It is not just a matter of your personality shaping your career, your career also shapes you. There is selection pressure on how you respond to your environment. I think the personality test is useful, but only if you are honest. It however is not a trap, you can escape what troubles you by changing your mind. BTW: openness high conscientiousness high extroversion: middle agreeableness: middle neuroticism: low