A facet of Openness

Openness to action

Openness to action measures your appetite for variety and novelty in practice: trying foods, routes, activities and different experiences, versus the comfort of the known and of routine.

Scoring high

You seek variety and try the new with pleasure; routine hems you in and novelty broadens you. The cost: sometimes you change for change's sake and struggle with the calm of the stable.

Scoring low

You find security and pleasure in the known: you repeat what works and routine doesn't weigh on you. The blind spot: you may stay in your comfort zone and miss things you'd have liked.

The honest nuance

Trying everything isn't true openness and repeating isn't closed-mindedness: they're different strategies when facing the unknown. High variety enriches but scatters; low variety roots but can stagnate. What matters is whether your openness makes you grow or just stirs you.

Where it shows. It shows on a restaurant menu, on holidays, in whether you always take the same route, and in how you react when your plans get changed.

And you - where do you fall in openness to action?

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The other facets of Openness

ImaginationArtistic interestEmotional sensitivityIntellectOpenness to values