Openness to experience is associated with:

• cognitive flexibility

• intellectual curiosity

• unconventional thinking & absorption

• natural energy

• inventiveness

• compassion & empathy

Curiosity is based on:

• dopamine that motivates exploration

• opiates that trigger pleasure responses

Curiosity is an exploratory behavior that is unique to humans and aligns with the human need of sense-making

Absorption is a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources

Absorption is being in the flow, or in the zone

The goal is to transcend above our own self focus