People who rate high in openness to new experiences in personality tests also may be more distractible and curious, according to a 2010 study in Creativity Research Journal.
The term was popularized by Nev Schulman who, after falling in love with a fake personality on Facebook, decided to make a documentary about his experiencesand later signed on to host a show about the phenomenon on MTV.
The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiencesand encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures.