Openness: when you say yes to the new, the strange and the different
Openness is the pull toward the unfamiliar. You say yes to a date who is nothing like your type, go to the neighbours' holiday you know nothing about, help your mother build an online dating profile. Curiosity tends to beat comfort. In SENEKA, people whose choices lean this way most often get the archetype The Explorer. Your life collects more surprises and more stories than most. The risk is saying yes to everything and losing track of what you actually want.
What it looks like
- You take a bite of the colleague's lunch you cannot name.
- You hear out the new hire who wants to replace your process.
- You sit down at the long table of strangers in a village square.
What it competes with
Openness most often runs into Boundaries in SENEKA's dilemmas. Letting something new in and protecting what is already yours are both reasonable, and your choices show which one usually wins.
Dilemmas that measure Openness
The person asking you out is nothing like your type. Your type has not exactly worked out.
You are offered a place in the program you always wanted. It means two lean, uncertain years.
Your mother, seventy-five, asks you to set up her online dating profile.
A close friend says talking to someone might help with what you have been carrying. You have always handled things alone.
The new neighbors invite the whole floor to a holiday you have never celebrated and know nothing about.
Your partner wants a dog. You really do not.
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