🎭 Openness to Experience
Curiosity, creativity, and appetite for the new.
What is Openness to Experience?
Openness to Experience measures your attraction to novelty, complexity, and unconventional ideas. High scorers seek out new experiences, enjoy abstract thinking, and value artistic expression. Low scorers prefer familiarity, practical solutions, and concrete thinking.
High Openness
High openness means you are drawn to new ideas, creative expression, and intellectual exploration. You enjoy ambiguity, appreciate art, and question conventions. You may struggle with routine and find purely practical work unstimulating.
Low Openness
Low openness means you prefer the familiar, practical, and concrete. You value tradition, enjoy routine, and focus on what works rather than what is novel. You may find abstract discussions frustrating or pointless.
Sub-Facets
Openness to Experience breaks down into six measurable facets that the Deep Personality assessment scores independently:
- Imagination
- Artistic Interest
- Emotionality
- Adventurousness
- Intellect
- Liberalism
Explore Other Big Five Traits
- 📋 Conscientiousness — Discipline, organization, and follow-through.
- 🎤 Extraversion — Social energy, assertiveness, and positive emotion.
- 🤲 Agreeableness — Compassion, cooperation, and concern for others.
- 🌊 Neuroticism — Emotional sensitivity, reactivity, and inner weather.
Frequently Asked Questions
High openness means you are naturally drawn to new experiences, abstract ideas, and creative expression. You enjoy complexity, question assumptions, and get bored with routine. It correlates with artistic interests and intellectual curiosity but can also mean difficulty with repetitive tasks. Your Deep Personality profile shows how your openness level interacts with your other four traits.
Openness tends to be one of the more stable Big Five traits, but it can shift with deliberate effort and new experiences. Travel, education, creative practices, and exposure to different cultures tend to increase openness over time. The full assessment shows your current openness level and its six sub-facets so you know where the growth edges are.
Neither is better. High openness gives you creativity and adaptability but can mean difficulty with routine and follow-through. Low openness gives you practical focus and consistency but can mean resistance to necessary change. The optimal level depends on your life and work context. Your Big Five profile shows where your level serves you and where it creates friction.
High-openness people seek partners who can engage with ideas and share novel experiences. Low-openness people value stability and shared traditions. Mismatches on openness can create friction around how to spend time, what to discuss, and how much change to embrace. The Deep Personality assessment maps these compatibility dynamics.
High openness correlates with success in creative fields, research, entrepreneurship, design, and roles that reward original thinking. Low openness correlates with success in operations, finance, administration, and roles that reward consistency and adherence to process. Your full profile narrows this further based on your complete trait combination.