Appreciation of the Big Five Personality Traits -- Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism -- can help bring the character of John to light. John is a common man, a hard worker, a family man, and also happens to be my dad. But what sets him apart? For one thing, he is highly intelligent and great at Jeopardy, due to all the useless facts he knows about a variety of subjects. He exhibits a large and rich vocabulary on a daily basis. Combined with his love of art and music, this would make you think he is a very open man, if you understood what that means, and you would be right. Evidence that he exhibits a the trait of“Openness,” can be found in his desire to grasp and understand every experience, like when …show more content…
as is evidenced by his edits to my siblings’ college and medical school applications (but not mine). My brother would have had trouble getting into Carnegie Mellon and the University of Michigan graduate school without my dad's rewrites. He also writes decisions to legal cases for a living. His many roles in the bagpipe band is just one facet of his great admiration for art and music,. When my grandfather suddenly died , the family told my father a few days before the memorial service that my grandmother would love it if he played “Mein Vater wahr ein Wandersmann” (the "Happy Wanderer") on the bagpipes, so he learned and played it at the memorial …show more content…
The wife of a drummer in his bagpipe band was a coworker of my mother and told herthat she should come to the Irish bar where the band met after practice every week, because there was a guy in the band who she should meet. When my mother got to the bar, everybody in the band talked to her except my father, who was too shy and not sure whether she wanted to talk to him. After about two or three weeks of her coming to the bar to see the band, he finally worked up the nerve to talk to her, and the rest is history. My mother, on the other hand, is pretty extroverted and can start up a conversation with just about anybody. She does a little thing I like to call “interrogating” when she meets new people, whether they are a car salesperson or my sister’s new friend. Whenever she goes to parties with my father, she is always the one that goes up and talks to everyone. When they went to his twentieth high school reunion, she talked to more people than he knew personally when he was in high school, even though she did not know anyone there. Finally, unlike my father, who gave up an opportunity for a promotion because he would have to be a supervisor, my mom started supervising people after working one year at age twenty