Positive personality trait

Adventurous

adj. Eager to explore new experiences or ideas.

4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Tries the unfamiliar: a new food, a new place, a new method.
  • Volunteers for the project nobody has done before.
  • Weighs a risk, then takes the one worth taking.

Fits when a person is drawn to unfamiliar experiences and manageable risks

Not when danger is ignored or other people bear the unwanted risk

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.

  • Resume line
    Volunteered for [new market, product or posting] in [place or year], building [result] from a standing start.
  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is adventurous in the best sense: they took on [unfamiliar project or move] and made it work.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is adventurous in their learning and happy to try new activities and foods on school trips.
  • In a story, shown not told
    She bought a one-way ticket to the coast, a phrasebook and a bicycle, in that order.
Example

The adventurous diner ordered the regional dish no one at the table had tried.

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