Being Agreeable Makes You Suffer— The Big 5

Lee-Michael D'Souza
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.

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Lee-Michael D'Souza

Author, Investor, and Thinker revolving around philosophy and the social condition.