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No PG you are presenting speculative opinion as fact. Conscientiousness is a measured and well documented personality trait, it is also formed around age six. I
by bloqs 5y ago
No PG you are presenting speculative opinion as fact. Conscientiousness is a measured and well documented personality trait, it is also formed around age six. It also happens to be social in its construction.
Software engineers typically report lower than average Conscientiousness, because the more complex the task, the less it has an impact. It's also negatively correlated with IQ.
Suggesting it is a choice is demonstrably wrong. It is environmentally learned by the age of roughly 6.
- bobobob420 5y agoWhy do I have such low conscientiousness?
- bloqs 5y agoYour childhood can be key. Your username makes me think you like to play with mind bending drugs that directly interfere with prefrontal cortical motivation.
- bobobob420 5y agoAwesome thanks for sharing. I think for myself, it might be childhood since I was young I hated being forced to study and do work. Funnily enough I do all my day job while toasted cause its super fun, coding while sober seems so boring. I am trying to train myself to be more conscientious, I don't know why I did not pick it up as a child. My parents tried a lot with tutoring and studying.
- bloqs 5y agoMany in the same boat as you - its probably why you ended up a programmer as well, as conscienciousness has less impact the more complex the job.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoIt's also negatively correlated with IQ. That's surprising, I wonder why.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoAmong other things, bright kids are often not challenged in school. Many of them learn to coast and not be too troublesome and do what little they have to do to hit the check marks the adults around them require while secretly pursuing some means to quietly also meet their own needs. They can end up feeling like school work is pointless and like "a monkey could do this."
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThat fits my experience. My first real college class was a shock.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoEven if true, do you think that you are trapped by that? Personally, I think that you can choose to cultivate more conscientiousness, whether or not you have that as a personality trait. (This is true of other traits, too. You can also choose to cultivate, say, honesty. Or kindness.)
- bloqs 5y agoConscienciousness is the easiest dimension to change over time with incremental intervention, so yes. Trauma can also change personality, but either way you wont go from bottom 1th percentile to top 99th without the task consuming your life.