conscientiousness is more complex than that. You have to understand what positive benefits manifest in what scenario for every given level of conscientiousness.

conscientiousness is more complex than that. You have to understand what positive benefits manifest in what scenario for every given level of conscientiousness. I'm very low-c and that means I have a proclivity to procrastinate and a tendency to not be able to stick with things very long term of my own volition. This doesn't make things impossible to do for me as I even managed to become fluent in Japanese which was a tortuous multi-year effort. Suffice to say higher conscientious would be nice, but it means I have a tendency to also not feel the need to follow all the rules all of the time and this results in my sometimes taking a contrarian or unorthodox approach and sometimes this has a massive and positive benefit. It also means I'm constantly forgetting to log my time sheets and take out the rubbish and things like that piss off my boss and my wife and this is generally considered a problem but my boss and my wife also love me because I do things they don't see other people doing and im considered unconventional but in a very good way. Everything is a trade-off. It's not like all high conscientiousness people is the right mix of people to have.