Tag: Creative Burnout
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Openness to Experience: The Most Beautiful—and Dangerous—Big Five Trait
Openness to Experience is the trait everyone romanticizes. It’s the dreamer’s trait, the creative’s playground, the mystic’s lens. It fuels your capacity for imagination, novelty, emotional depth, and non-linear thinking. It’s what makes someone fall in love with poetry in a parking lot or consider changing careers after reading a single tweet. But as with…
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Openness is a Double-Edged Paintbrush: How the Big Five’s Most Enchanting Trait Fuels Creativity—and Crisis
Introduction Openness to Experience is the trait that makes some people gaze at a sunset and feel a sudden urge to write a poem—or dye their hair pink. It’s what drives a child to ask why the sky is blue, and a novelist to spend years building fictional worlds no one asked for but everyone…