Still Expanding: When Possibility Feels Like Pressure in Later Life

There’s a kind of overwhelm that has nothing to do with deadlines, and everything to do with possibility. You might know it. The quiet pressure of unfinished ideas. Of folders and saved articles. Of software tools you meant to explore. The sense that there’s still more you could be doing, not because anyone’s asking, but […]

Why Some People Crave Self-Insight More Than Others

The Self-Insight Motive: Why Do Some People Crave Self-Knowledge More Than Others? The human desire to understand oneself has persisted for centuries, spanning ancient philosophy, religious traditions, and modern psychology. Given the popularity of astrology columns, self-help books, and personality quizzes, it seems that most, if not all, people are intrigued by the idea of […]

Understanding Personality Traits

Retirement adjustment can be studied using personality theory, which offers insights into behaviour and subjective experiences. The ‘Big Five’ factors – openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism – are commonly used to measure personality traits. These traits encompass various behaviours and motivations. Research has found that high conscientiousness, agreeableness, and low neuroticism, particularly […]

Being happy as an introvert

People are different, different personality styles, different interests. And we can sometimes want to step outside our comfort zone. As we age, we may be clearer on our personality and be happy with, for example being alone, but others may want us to change. In work we may have acted ‘as if’ we were someone […]