RE: Accepting negative moods can reduce them
This is really fascinating. If you write yourself off, you're just going to go into a downward spiral, which will help no one. I used to go to Buddhist meditation regularly, and their philosophy was that if you are in a negative mood, it's just a negative mind passing through. It shouldn't be personified as "you".
I'm not so sure about the "OCEAN" model. It seems to me that we should value introverts and introversion more. Introversion can often lead to creativity and invention. It's often the ones who sit silently in a corner who come up with the best ideas. Extraversion can be great too - I don't see one as better than the other.
When I followed your link to read more about it, I felt that those five traits are not so much indicative of a healthy personality as indicative of an obedient personality who will work hard in their job without criticising authority too much! But maybe that's just my disagreeable neuroticism coming out :)
Yeah, I think that is neuroticism coming out :) or I have not explained it well enough. I think it is that one :) Let me try again.
With "ocean" you need to be open for new ideas and approachable. That means that fanatically sticking to your opinions without listening to others is out of the question. It also deals with your imagination and insight, curiosity and range of interests, thinking about abstract and theoretical concepts. Conscientiousness is about impulse control, goal-directed behaviors, attention to details, and thinking how our behavior affects others. Extraversion is pretty self-explanatory and deals with our comfort in social situations and how well do we respond to people. Agreeableness is about trust, altruism, kindness, affection, cooperation, and feeling empathy for other people. Neuroticism is about sadness, moodiness, anxiety, irritability, and emotional instability. I hope I made it clearer this time, if not, check this page out:
The Big Five Personality Traits
They have tables with high and low examples for each trait.
Thanks for the explanation, but it was the link I was referring to. I checked it out before I wrote the comment. When I read your post I wasn't sure about the "extraversion" bit, so I read the full link, and when I read it, I thought... this is about valuing conformity. That's my opinion. I think openness is a great thing, but introversion should be valued as much as extraversion, and it's good to be disagreeable in some situations. Conscientiousness can be great, but in some situations it drives us to focus on goals that are not healthy, without questioning them. I personally wouldn't use those three traits (extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness) as benchmarks for a healthy personality.