Personality is a broad term that includes characteristic patterns…

Personality is a broad term that includes characteristic patterns of our thoughts feelings and behaviors that we take with us across situations and time. It includes skills abilities goals motivations and traits. Traits have been categorized by researchers into five categories openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism. Every person has some combinations of all five of these.

— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

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He listed a dozen of them — courage, temperance, generosity, good temper, truthfulness, friendliness, justice — and it is no bad exercise to score yourself against that list from time to time. Modern psychology maps the same terrain with five broad dimensions — openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, the OCEAN of personality — but do not read them as boxes you are trapped in: every trait is a spectrum, not a type, and your whole personality is less a label than a tapestry, an intricate weave in which every thread matters and no single one, pulled, unravels the rest. Let me walk you through the few traits I most want you to build. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

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