I’m talking about a fundamental personality trait called “openness to experience” if you’d like to learn more about how the personality mediates your path through your environment. These traits have biological underpinnings that put you where you can best be, according to many other biological factors. Perhaps you have a high metabolism and this makes you very industrious, very conscientious. Way down the line your ancestors got hungrier faster, and needed to be ready and know exactly how to get

Openness to experience, one of the personality traits defined in the Big Five personality model, can be dissected into two aspects: intellect and openness. Intellect is the personality reflection of intelligence and is associated with an interest and fluency in abstract ideas. Open people are also intelligent, but they have an additional appreciation for aesthetic experiences. Here’s a short clip taken from my "Discovering Personality" course, available for order at https://bit.ly/personalitycou

The openness to experience personality trait, which I tend to think about as creativity, seems to be related to intelligence. Generally, people with higher IQs are likely to be creative, but there's actually more to it than IQ, and it also depends on how you choose to define creativity. If you haven't done our personality assessment and want to understand yourself better, you can find it here: http://bit.ly/understand_myself. | Dr Jordan B Peterson