Personal Narrative: The Big Five Project Personality

Personality can be described as a person’s psychological characteristics and behaviors, evolving from environmental and biological circumstances (Solomon, 2017). Therefore, people tend to respond differently to situations with work and everyday life. Contributing much research to associate how personalities affect the behaviors of consumers, “The Big Five Project Personality Test” was developed to enhance educational activities (Potter, John, & Soto, 2015). Taking the personality assessment, concerning five segments of personality, I was really surprised at the results, scoring a forty-eight on the subject of open-mindedness. People with high scores tend to demonstrate creativity, where people scoring low have very little desire to explore something new. However, scoring in the middle would suggest that I am very hesitant

I have yearned to build on this trait by watching other people react to situations, in addition to having the opinion that anger is a weakness. Therefore, if someone demonstrates a negative action toward me, such as yelling or even being totally silent, I remove myself for a moment, taking a deep breath, in addition to realizing that usually I am not the problem, but rather the target of relief for someone else. If I enter an establishment that is chaotic, with tension in the air, or a sense of someone arguing, I will quickly leave, usually making the choice of terminating my business with the organization completely. An example would be a restaurant, where the server cannot seem to get anything right, complaining about everything, demonstrating rudeness, in addition to missing in action for long periods of time. There are two restaurants in our town that I will no longer patronize because of negative emotions that I have