One of the 243 portraits · HHLLL
The Big Heart
I keep the door open. Come as you are.
You love loudly and misplace everything else.
You feel every room and forget every deadline. When something aches, yours or someone else's, you feel it too, and you would rather sit with an old friend than plan a new one.
Openhearted · Unhurried · Nostalgic
The five together
Warm, loud and unplanned, you keep the door open to everyone, feel their sorrows loudly, lose the keys, and want the old friends and the old songs.
The Big Heart's result is high on Extraversion and Agreeableness and low on Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness. Each band is wide on purpose: a score near a boundary can fall either side on a retake, and the portrait describes the pattern, not a precise point.
About 1 in 1,000 people
0.10% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Big Heart is among the rarest tenth of the 243.
Bands are relative to a general adult reference sample. Honesty-Humility is measured in your Snapshot and appears in your report; it is not part of the portrait.
What The Big Heart might recognize
- You cry at other people's good news and misplace your keys in the same week.
- You would rather call an old friend tonight than meet someone new next week.
A question worth keeping
When your feelings run ahead of your plans, who do you let steady you?
Six lenses
The Big Heart in relationships, at work, and under stress.
In relationships
What you bring, what you need, where it strains.
These six lenses on The Big Heart come with the membership.
Written for this exact combination, alongside 90 trait pages, a strengths constellation and a growth plan.
Read them in the membershipOne band away
Move a single dimension and the portrait changes. These are the ten neighbours of The Big Heart.
- Extraversion lowThe Homemaker
- Extraversion mediumThe Protector
- Agreeableness lowThe Scrapper
- Agreeableness mediumThe Party Animal
- Conscientiousness mediumThe Lifeguard
- Conscientiousness highThe Shepherd
- Emotional Stability mediumThe Merrymaker
- Emotional Stability highThe Best Friend
- Openness mediumThe Hugger
- Openness highThe Enthusiast
The traits behind The Big Heart
A portrait is a pattern across five measured dimensions. Every trait is reported as a percentile against the reference sample; the three bands and the portrait name exist to make the result easier to talk about, and the percentile is always shown alongside. Each dimension has its own page explaining what it means, what the research says it predicts, and how it can change.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Extraversion?
How much you enjoy being around people, talking, and doing lively things, and how much energy that gives you.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Agreeableness?
How kind, trusting, and cooperative you tend to be with other people, and how much you put getting along ahead of getting your way.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Conscientiousness?
How organised, careful, and reliable you are about getting things done and keeping your promises.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Emotional Stability?
How calm and even you usually feel, and how quickly you bounce back when something upsets you.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Openness?
How much you enjoy new ideas, art, imagination, and experiences that are different from what you already know.
The Snapshot also measures Honesty-Humility, which appears in your report but is not part of the portrait code. How much you tell the truth, play fair, want only your fair share, and avoid showing off, even when you could get away with more.
Questions about The Big Heart
- What is the Big Heart personality?
- The Big Heart is one of the 243 Wellington portraits: a pattern of bands across the five Big Five dimensions rather than a fixed type. I keep the door open. Come as you are. Warm, loud and unplanned, you keep the door open to everyone, feel their sorrows loudly, lose the keys, and want the old friends and the old songs.
- How common is The Big Heart?
- 0.10% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Big Heart is among the rarest tenth of the 243 among the 243 portraits in the reference sample, and the share will move as the norming sample grows.
- How do I find out if I am The Big Heart?
- Take the free Wellington Snapshot: 60 questions, about 7 minutes. You answer all the questions first, then you sign in with an email so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. There is no card. Your free results name your portrait and show your five dimensions.
- Is The Big Heart a personality type?
- Not in the sense of a box you are sorted into. Wellington measures continuous traits and reports each as a percentile against a reference sample. The Big Heart names the combination of bands your scores fall in, and a score near a band boundary can land on either side on a retake. Wellington describes ordinary variation in personality; it is not a diagnosis and is not designed for hiring. Read more about types and traits
Share The Big Heart
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The Big Heart: I keep the door open. Come as you are. Which portrait are you? Find yours with Wellington.
Is this you, or someone you know?
The free Snapshot takes seven minutes and names your own portrait, with your five dimensions shown alongside it.