The Big Five Aspects Scale

Extraversion 89th 🗣️

Assertiveness 99th

Enthusiasm 36th

Assertiveness 99th

Enthusiasm 36th

Openness to Experience 94th 🏹

Intellect 94th

Aesthetics 84th

Intellect 94th

Aesthetics 84th

Conscientiousness 63th 💼

Industriousness 88th

Orderliness 25th

Industriousness 88th

Orderliness 25th

Neuroticism 64th 💢

Volatility 86th

Withdrawal 31th

Volatility 86th

Withdrawal 31th

Agreeableness 20th ✅

Compassion 48th

Politeness 7th

Compassion 48th

Politeness 7th

Conscientiousness 💼

Industriousness

About High Industriousness

• Value work highly and typically want to be doing something useful.
• Dutiful, and does not often mess things up.
• They are frequently figuring out how to accomplish more in less time, with fewer resources.
• Has focus.
• Likely to judge shirkers or people who are incompetent quite harshly, and to want them out of the way.
• Feel guilty, rapidly, if they do not do their duty.

Orderliness

About Moderately Low Orderliness

• Neither disturbed nor disgusted by mess and chaos, they tend simply not to notice such things.
• Sees the world in shades of grey, rather than black and white.
• Non-judgemental in their attitudes toward themselves and others.
• Rarely use schedules, list, or routines and, even if they plan, tend not to implement those plans.
• Take things as they come, and let chance determine the outcome.
• Takes neither rules nor procedures too seriously.
• Care less than average for routine and predictability.
• Schedules are loose and disruption doesn't bother them.
• Are easily distracted.
• They can, however, tolerate the mess, disruption and intervening periods of chaos that may accompany creative endeavour.

Openness

Intellect

About Very High Intellect

• Interested in ideas and abstract concepts.
• Crave exposure to novel information, even when it is complex.
• Highly curious and exploratory, and actively want to find, tackle and solve challenging problems.
• Will much more frequently seek out and initiate issue-oriented discussions, and are very likely to read, think about and want to discuss idea-centered books (generally non-fiction).
• Markedly articulate, and can formulate ideas clearly and quickly.
• A broad and wide vocabulary.
• Continually want to learn new things.
• Will constantly find and generate novel, creative concepts and voluntarily search for and adapt very well to new experience and situations.
• Find complex, rapidly changing occupations necessary and will generally excel at them.
• Very much less well-suited to stable, straightforward and more traditional occupations, where the rules don't change, and will experience frequent periods of boredom and intolerable levels of frustration in such positions.

Aesthetics

About High Aesthetics

• Highly open, creative people love beauty.
• Need an outlet for their creative ability, or they have difficulty thriving.
• They want to be surrounded by art or beautiful crafts.
• Are sensitive to color and architectural form.
• Like to collect things.
• They are imaginative, and like to daydream and reflect on things.
• Are affected comparatively deeply by music, often of many genres, and may be musical or artistic themselves.
• Respond strongly to beauty, creativity and art.
• Can be extremely difficult to transform creativity into money, or into a career.
• High levels of openness are necessary for entrepreneurial success, and often prove useful at the top of hierarchies, even in very conservative occupations such as banking, accounting and law, which need creative people in leadership positions to provide new vision and direction.

Extraversion 🗣️

Assertiveness

Out of 100 people, someone scoring 99th percentile is the most Assertive singular person in the room.

About Very High Assertiveness

• Exceptionally assertive people are “take charge” types.
• Put their own opinions forward extremely strongly.
• Constantly dominate and control social situations.
• Can be extremely influential and captivating.
• Have the communication style that is often associated with leadership, which is good when they are knowledgeable, competent and able, but not so good when they aren’t.
• Assertive people are people of action. They don’t wait for others to lead the way, but leap in, heedlessly.
• Can act without thinking.

Enthusiasm

About Moderately Low Enthusiasm

• Not particularly easy to get to know.
• When they do talk, it tends only to be about things in which they find particular interest.
• Do not easily open up to people.
• Tend to prefer solitude.
• Find performing less desirable.
• Rarely seek out stimulation, excitement, activity or fun.
• Not gregarious or people-loving.

Agreeableness

Compassion

About Average Compassion

• Somewhat concerned about helping other people avoid negative emotion.
• Willing to stand their ground, even when others get upset.
• Make time and do things for others, but balance that with fulfilling their own needs.
• Have a soft side, but are not pushovers.
• Reasonably sympathetic and nice, and people will sometimes turn to them for a listening ear.
• Can be empathetic and caring, however they are not primarily other-oriented, so they can negotiate effectively on their own behalf.

Politeness

About Very Low Politeness

• Not at all deferential to authority, nor are they obedient.
• Respectful, grudgingly, but only to people who clearly deserve and demand it. They are markedly willing to push back when challenged.
• They are not uncomfortable confronting other people – in fact they enjoy it.
• Not motivated to avoid conflict.
• Can be frequently in trouble with authority.
• Scepticism can make it very difficult for them to find a place in the middle or lower in hierarchies of power and dominance.
• Very strongly tend to be dominant.

Neuroticism 💢

Volatility

About High Volatility

• Can be irritable, reacting strongly to disappointment, frustration, pain and the threat of social isolation.
• Can lash out and are relatively easily annoyed.
• More likely to act out or verbally express their frustration, disappointment and irritability.
• Can be stirred up and upset and, once angry or irritated, take a longer than average time to calm down.
• Can be argumentative and lose their composure.
• Can be provocative in a dispute.

Withdrawal

About Moderately Low Withdrawal

• Tends to not suffer from nor be impeded by anticipatory anxiety.
• Can handle new, uncertain, unexpected, threatening or complex situations quite well.
• Are not more likely to avoid or withdraw in the face of the unknown and unexpected.
• Occasionally feel sad, lonesome, disappointed and grief-stricken, but not too deeply, and not for too long.
• Lower than normal levels of doubt and worry, embarrassment, self-consciousness and discouragement in the face of threat and punishment.
• Not particularly sensitive nor worried about social rejection, and don't easily feel hurt or threatened. Even when hurt, frightened, or anxious, they recover with relative ease and speed.
• Not particularly concerned that something bad is going to happen.