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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to everyone is somewhere on the "openness to experience" personality dimension. I think you are right that one direction is largely about safety, comfort, etc. The other is perhaps about a need for occasional (defined very differently for different people) new experiences. I feel the latter acts as a "push" to move us out of the former on some individualized, situationally-influenced schedule, but it could be seen the other way around, too. Those two drives are more or less opposites; they don't live comfortably together, though everyone has some of each and we all fluctuate in which one is dominant at a.given time or in a particular situation. Sometimes two people get married even though one of them has a need for predictability and familiarity 16 out of every 24 hours and the other has a craving for novelty every twelve seconds.