Openness to Experience

Openness to experience, February 19 chat

Although it's a "heritable trait" (something people inherit genetically), it can also be nurtured and fostered, to some extent.

I think school can create a "closed-to-experience" condition in some people.
Some families do, too.

There's nothing on my site about it, excapt pages on wonder and connections, I guess.

Maybe think of a fictional character who seems to have that trait. Rippy suggests the character of Phil, on Modern Family. I say Tigger.

Here's a description:
Openness to experience: (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious). Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience. Openness reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a preference for novelty and variety a person has. It is also described as the extent to which a person is imaginative or independent, and depicts a personal preference for a variety of activities over a strict routine. Some disagreement remains about how to interpret the openness factor, which is sometimes called "intellect" rather than openness to experience.

Read about openness to experience here if you want more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience
http://cambridgepersonality.com/index.php/science-menu22/77-trait-description-openness








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