Being Agreeable Makes You Suffer— The Big 5
9 min readMay 2, 2021
Yourself, your family, or your friends are likely suffering if there are too many Agreeable people around!
I’ll keep it short and bitter-sweet; The Big 5 Personality test highlights 5 personality traits within all of us. They are half-shaped by your biology and the other half by your environment — and they don’t change much over time! They are OCEAN; Openness, Conscientousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. It is the forefront personality model used by psychoanalysts worldwide and has a pantheon of ongoing research behind it.