Professor OCEAN™: A Small Fable of Personality’s Big Five
In the tradition of other great business fables, Professor OCEAN introduces readers to the Big Five personality traits in a simple, down-to-earth, and engaging format that anyone can understand. The main lessons of the book are:
Personality can be captured by five broad traits, the Big Five: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. OCEAN!
Personality isn’t about good or bad, right or wrong, it’s about the way you are wired and how you approach your relationships and work.
Personality can change. If the personality traits you have aren’t working, you have options.
“Meyers Briggs and Enneagram are fine measures. And in some ways easier to communicate as they put people in categories that are easier to understand.
However, OCEAN is where the science is. It puts things on scales that can move.”
Why We Wrote a Book on Personality
Quantitative research revealed that our unique individual personality provides clues to our money behavior. However, few outside of academia had heard of personality science’s Big Five model—often referred to as NEO-AC. We reorganized the letters to spell OCEAN and Professor Ocean arrived on the scene to help make this complex topic simple, fun, and understandable to all! Stay tuned for future installments.
Money Happiness™: Five Wealth Lessons with Professor OCEAN™
The journey with Professor OCEAN continues. In his first book Professor OCEAN taught his students about the importance of knowing your personality using the Big Five personality traits—OCEAN. In this second volume the old psychologist returns to the park bench to reframe the way his new students think about money, wealth, and Money Happiness ™.
The five money lessons are:
OCEAN Personality Traits and Money
Save It, Loan It, or Own It
The Rule of 72
The 5% Rule
Money Happiness