Openness

Big Five personality traits

The personality trait of openness "is how open-minded, imaginative, creative and insightful a person is or can be. More open minded people tend to prefer variety, seek new experiences and are curious and perceptive to their environment. Less open minded people tend to avoid change, dislike disruption and focus on a few specific interests."

Openness to experience is important to one's level of creativity.

Openness is one of the Big Five personality traits

The personality traits of a good diplomat are: openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion.

What is the personality trait of openness

• What Is Openness to Experience & How Do We Measure It? by Jeremy Sutton, Ph.D.
• What is Openness in Psychology: Definition, Benefits, Examples by Jesus Carmona Sanchez, PhD
• Openness: Definition, Benefits, & How to Improve by Tanya J. Peterson, NCC, DAIS
• What is Openness?, DNA Genetics Blog
• Openness Personality Trait
• Openness to Experience: Openness Personality Traits

Videos:

• What is openness? - video playlist, Videos playlist

Increasing one's openness

Open people are less resistant to change.

Change, such as the changing of the seasons, is constantly occuring around us.

See also: Change management and Comfort zone and Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality

The personality trait of openness can change in an individual (changing one's environment such as one's culture, interpersonal relations/skills, etc.). It was once thought that one's personality was fixed, but modern research indicates that one can positively change one's personality (Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality).

The 2023 journal article The reciprocal relationship between openness and creativity: from neurobiology to multicultural environments published in Frontiers in Neurology indicates:

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Multicultural exposure, when facilitated by a habit of openness, encourages individuals to be curious about and investigate novel perspectives, ideas, and beliefs, even when they are different from their own. The process of gaining a deeper understanding of the nuances that make each culture unique provides new knowledge and inspiration for innovative thinking and problem-solving. Subsequently, individuals are thereby more likely to creatively incorporate various novel cultural influences into their work, which facilitates cognitive flexibility and the generation of new ideas in a positive feedback loop (15, 55). Moreover, exposure to diverse cultural perspectives has been demonstrated to help individuals to better understand and empathize with others, which in turn facilitates interpersonal conflict resolution."

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As far as the "habit of openness' mentioned above, habits can be changed (See: Habit). In addition, problem solving, empathy, and creativity are skills that can be learned (See: Problem solving and empathy and Books on creativity). For example, empathy involves being curious about other people, active listening, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence (See: Empathy). In addition, travel broadens the mind as does improving the quality of one's personality relationships due to social influence and the fact that some people are openminded than others (Being around more openminded people is better than being around closedminded people if one wishes to increase their opennesss).

Increasing the personality trait of openness:

• How to Be Open-Minded and Why It Matters by Kendra Cherry, MSEd

• How to be an open-minded person (11 Easy skills/tips to become open-minded)

• Openness To Experience: Meaning, Examples & How To Improve Your Openness

• How to Cultivate an Openness to Experience

• How can you improve your self-awareness and openness in relationships?

• 10 Steps To Become More Open-Minded

Videos:

• How to increase the personality trait of openness - video playlist, Video playlist

Thoughtful updaters: Changing one's mind based on new information or new circumstances

Changing your mind based on new and relevant evidence is natural and an important thing to do.

See also: Change management and Intellectual curiosity and Intellectual humility

• Changing Your Mind Based on New Evidence Is Natural by Daniel T. Blumstein Ph.D.

• The value of changing your mind

• The Power of Cognitive Flexibility in Adapting to Change

• Cognitive Flexibility: The Science of How to be Successful in Business and at Work, Society for Human Resource Management

• What is cognitive flexibility, and why does it matter?

• The Power of Changing Your Mind, Time magazine

Journal articles on the personality trait of openness

• The neurobiology of openness as a personality trait, Frontiers in Neurology, 2023; 14: 1235345. Published online 2023 Aug 14. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1235345

• Openness/intellect: A dimension of personality reflecting cognitive exploration, APA handbook of personality and social psychology, Vol. 4. Personality processes and individual differences (pp. 369–399). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/14343-017

• Associations Between Openness Facets, Prejudice, and Tolerance: A Scoping Review With Meta-Analysis, Frontiers of Psychology. 2021; 12: 707652. Published online 2021 Sep 28. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.707652

• Openness to Experience and Intellect differentially predict creative achievement in the arts and sciences, Journal of Personality. 2016 Apr; 84(2): 248–258. Published online 2015 Jan 28. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12156

See also

• Change management
• Quotes on embracing change
• Intellectual humility
• Personality disorder
• Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality
• Atheism and open-mindedness
• Atheism and dogmatism

External links

• How Openness Affects Your Behavior
• 7 Benefits of Intellectual Curiosity (In Case You Were Wondering)
• How Smart People Change Their Minds
• Ray Dalio: Open-Mindedness And The Power of Not Knowing

Videos:

• Principles for Success “Be Radically Open-Minded”, Ray Dalio