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IThis article is called the big five model of personality, but it is actually a theory that is being titled "All there is and ever could be", and it is stated that all humans are different worlds none of us are alike. I been looking at people from the past and present that have high IQ levels from Richard Branson and Albert Einstein. It has been established that no one thinks alike. Me for example I have an entrepreneur mindset and I constantly am trying to produce multiple streams of income and life skills. https://positivepsychology.com/big-f...nality-theory/
Wouldn't we all love "multiple streams of income" and life skills?
I find what the article says is something most of us already know, and has been known by common man for years.
The psychologists have just created special words and then categorized us into them.
The five factor model is actually over a hundred years old, and is drawn from and expands upon Hippocrates' four basic temperament types...so it's not like categorizing groups via taxonomy is some crazy newfangled thing.
THE older I get the more I believe we all have borderline superpowers.....yet we dim our own lights ….by insecurities, buried pain, anger shame/guilt.....essentially all of fears brothers
in summary if we can let all our anchors go ….and set off our own unique tnt/dynamite we can burn bright with confidence and a positive glow …
then we can finally focus without doubts...and do what we love and are gifted to do .
The OCEAN model bothers me because 4 of the 5 scales have an obvious "positive" direction. If I were 16 and my guidance counselor told me I scored low on "conscientiousness" and "agreeability" (which I probably would have), it would have depressed me. As opposed to say sensing/intuition, where neither side has a value judgment.
The difference between the Ocean model and Myers Brigs is the same difference between astronomy and astrology. One has independent 3rd party confirmation of results and the other doesn't.
The difference between the Ocean model and Myers Brigs is the same difference between astronomy and astrology. One has independent 3rd party confirmation of results and the other doesn't.
For thousands of years there have been attempts to explain human psychology according to three, or four, or five traits - each of which supposedly has certain characteristics, and the blend of which allows you (supposedly) to explain everything about another person.
Witness "OCNJ" which supposedly explains everything about a person so described.
Except it doesn't.
When you actually look at the tests that are supposed to sort you into one of the four, or twelve, or sixteen, or however many, slots, the questions are basically so vague as to be meaningless. Questions like "would you rather go out with friends or stay home and read a book" leave out so much context that you find yourself picking answers according to how you want the test to represent you (what if, sometimes, I want to do one and sometimes I want to do the other, depending on a host of factors? Well, I think of myself as outgoing and socially adept, so I'll pick "go out with friends".)
Being humans, and having evolved when REAL threats tended to be clear cut and unambiguous (tiger! Run, climb tree, fight?) we naturally seek to simplify each situation so we can apply simple rules without having to make subtle distinctions. Sometimes this works out well ("holding up the liquor store and then shooting the clerk so he can't identify you, is WRONG") and sometimes not so well ("I think so and so fits into xyz psychological category according to the book I read last week, so I'm going to treat them like abc").
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