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How Can You Truly Know A Person? In conversation with David Brooks

Reading Our Times

CHAPTER

Understanding Others Through Personality Traits

This chapter explores the concept of using personality tests to comprehend individuals, highlighting the five major traits - extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness. It illustrates how these traits offer insight into people but stresses that they are not all-encompassing in defining a person's character.

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