One of the 243 portraits · HHLMH
The Troubadour
I travel light and love easily. See you somewhere.
You arrive with stories and leave with more.
You move from table to table with a story and something to give away, never quite settled and rarely bothered by it. New places and new people do not scare you, they are the whole appeal.
Wandering · Openhanded · Spirited
The five together
Warm, curious and unplanned, you travel from crowd to crowd with songs and stories, give freely, and stay cheerful about not knowing where you will sleep.
The Troubadour's result is high on Extraversion, Agreeableness and Openness, low on Conscientiousness and in the middle on Emotional Stability. 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 4 in 1,000 people
0.44% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Troubadour is an uncommon combination.
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 Troubadour might recognize
- You strike up a real conversation with a stranger within minutes.
- You feel fine not knowing where you will sleep next week.
A question worth keeping
When home is wherever you land, what do you carry with you to make it feel like one?
Six lenses
The Troubadour in relationships, at work, and under stress.
In relationships
What you bring, what you need, where it strains.
These six lenses on The Troubadour 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 Troubadour.
- Extraversion lowThe Nomad
- Extraversion mediumThe Bohemian
- Agreeableness lowThe Rogue
- Agreeableness mediumThe Street Performer
- Conscientiousness mediumThe Mentor
- Conscientiousness highThe Principal
- Emotional Stability lowThe Enthusiast
- Emotional Stability highThe Optimist
- Openness lowThe Merrymaker
- Openness mediumThe Welcomer
The traits behind The Troubadour
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.
- Balanced band, 30th to 70th percentileWhat is Emotional Stability?
How calm and even you usually feel, and how quickly you bounce back when something upsets you.
- High band, above the 70th 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 Troubadour
- What is the Troubadour personality?
- The Troubadour is one of the 243 Wellington portraits: a pattern of bands across the five Big Five dimensions rather than a fixed type. I travel light and love easily. See you somewhere. Warm, curious and unplanned, you travel from crowd to crowd with songs and stories, give freely, and stay cheerful about not knowing where you will sleep.
- How common is The Troubadour?
- 0.44% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Troubadour is an uncommon combination 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 Troubadour?
- 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 Troubadour 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 Troubadour 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
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