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Openness

Curiosity, imagination, and appetite for the unfamiliar.

Your appetite for the unfamiliar — ideas, art, strange places, new ways of doing things. One end explores; the other deepens what it already has.

High

With a high score, novelty pulls at you all by itself. You read difficult things on purpose, notice beauty in odd corners, and treat 'we've always done it this way' as an invitation to try another way. Strange places sound like plans, not warnings. Being thought a bit odd costs you nothing — sometimes it's the point. The cost is restlessness: the familiar can turn gray too fast, and you can trade a good thing you have for an interesting thing you haven't met yet.

Low

With a low score, you invest in the known. You'd rather deepen a favorite than gamble on a stranger — the trusted place, the proven method, the music that has already earned its shelf. Practical beats novel: you ask what works, not what's new, and an idea doesn't win you over just because it glitters. There's real value here that experimenters only rediscover later — the tried and tested got that name by working. The cost is unopened doors: some of what you'd love most sits on the far side of a first time you keep not having.

Facets

  • Aesthetic AppreciationHow often beauty — in art, in weather, in nothing special — stops you.
  • InquisitivenessYour pull toward difficult material and unfamiliar places.
  • CreativityHow naturally you produce new ideas and new ways of doing things.
  • UnconventionalityHow comfortable you are being, and being seen as, unusual.

Characters who read this way

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da VinciPolymath, 1452–1519HighFilled thousands of notebook pages with anatomy, flying machines, water, light, and grocery lists — curiosity with no fence around it.
Don Quixote
Don QuixoteDon QuixoteHighReads himself into another century and then rides out to live in it. The world as it is was never quite interesting enough.
Sancho Panza
Sancho PanzaDon QuixoteLowThe practical half of literature's oddest pair: proverbs, provisions, and plain sense while his master tilts at giants. Someone has to keep them both fed.

In the app

Plenty of challenges hide a small novelty inside a social task: a new place, a different route, a question you have never asked anyone before. High scorers barely register that part and can focus on the person; low scorers get two workouts in one.

Find out where you actually stand.

Five minutes for the assessment. 7 days free after that.

Coming to the App Store

iPhone · iOS 17 or later