Master The Big 5 Personality Traits & The 10 Personality Facets: With Research-Backed Exercises

By Sadiya Shahid and Oliver Beuthin

How do we take control of our personality? What can we practically do to shape and improve our personality across all traits and facets? This workbook, Master The Big 5 Personality Traits & The 10 Personality Facets With Research-Backed Exercises, is here to help you do just that.

 

THE SCIENCE OF PERSONALITY

Get familiar with OCEAN, the BIG 5 personality traits, and their 10 personality facets.

✔ Openness/Intellect: Openness to Experience

✔ Openness/Intellect: Intellect

✔ Conscientiousness: Industriousness

✔ Conscientiousness: Orderliness

✔ Extraversion: Enthusiasm

✔ Extraversion: Assertiveness

✔ Agreeableness: Compassion

✔ Agreeableness: Politeness

✔ Neuroticism: Withdrawal

✔ Neuroticism: Volatility

 

PRACTICAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

We've turned leading psychology research into actionable exercises you can implement in your daily life to improve each personality facet.

✔ Problem-Solving Self-Talk

✔ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

✔ Goal Setting

✔ Awe-Inspiring Contemplation

✔ Deliberate Practice

✔ & MORE

 

BECOME A LINCHPIN

Train yourself to become indispensable and multiple your chances to:

✔ Develop a growth mindset

✔ Get the best jobs and the most freedom

✔ Strike a balance between work, productivity and mental health

• Language: English
• Publisher: Selfaid
• Release date: Oct 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215995105

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Master The Big 5 Personality Traits & The 10 Personality Facets

With Research-Backed Exercises

Oliver Beuthin

Sadiya Shahid

Copyright © Oliver Beuthin & Sadiya Shahid, 2022.

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Table of Contents

Preface

The Big 5

1. Openness to Experience: Openness/Intellect

Exercise: Mental Time-Traveling

2. Intellect: Openness/Intellect

Exercise: Awe-Inspiring Contemplation

3. Industriousness: Conscientiousness

Exercise: Goal Setting

4. Orderliness: Conscientiousness

Exercise: Daily Task Prioritization

5. Enthusiasm: Extraversion

Exercise: Life Story Interview

6. Assertiveness: Extraversion

Exercise: Deliberative Practice

7. Compassion: Agreeableness

Exercise: Third Person Thinking

8. Politeness: Agreeableness

Exercise: Digital Communication

9. Withdrawal: Neuroticism

Exercise: Problem-Solving Self-Talk

10. Volatility: Neuroticism

Exercise: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Checklist

Preface

Dear readers,

This is a one-of-a-kind research-backed workbook designed to help you shape your Big 5 personality traits and their 10 facets. Research has shown that variation in these traits affect factors such as academic and industrial success, relationships, physical and mental health, and more. This is why Seth Godin, one of the most influential entrepreneurs and a best-selling author, writes that these traits are signs of being a linchpin, an indispensable member of society who gets the best jobs and the most freedom:

"Work, great work, has been transformed in just a hundred years from doing things that involve heavy lifting to leveraging and enhancing your personality. If you hope to succeed because you are able to connect and work with other people, then that will require you to improve your personality in