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Doing hard things improves you, but ultimately your personality is largely defined by the time you stop being a child. Industriousness is very much a personalit
by bloqs 5y ago
Doing hard things improves you, but ultimately your personality is largely defined by the time you stop being a child. Industriousness is very much a personality dimension and it is very hard to change. Industriousness is a measure of how satisfied you are doing nothing. Highly industrious personalities are the most prevalent factor with success across the lifespan (in Western economies) and also seem less likely to develop in Western Democracies where life outlook is stable, nutrition is good and creativity encouraged. but the cause is currently a few avenues of speculation. Personality dimensions are mostly impossible to change meaningfully, but it seems psychadelics and traumatic brain injury seem to be the only two things capable of doing so on a permanent basis, but both have a high chance of causing negative/catastrophic consequences.
- bloqs 5y agoI should add that industriousness is loosely conversely correlated with IQ (which is strongly correlated with Openness, effectively a measure of creativity). In this sense - people with good IQ, but off the charts Industriousness occupy all the top spots in the most demanding businesses. IQ is slightly more important than industriousness in academic success, but industriousness in a high amount is a close second, with other traits not coming close to being utterly critical.
- bloqs 5y agoLifetime happiness is a poor goal, but it seems that over a wide variety of of sources that a stable and successful family brings far greater meaning and fulfilment than any career can offer, which should be a priority.
- armchairhacker 5y ago> Industriousness is a measure of how satisfied you are doing nothing Did you mean how unsatisfied you are doing nothing? Because industrious seems to mean "hard-working, diligent, devoted to success".
- bloqs 5y agoit's a measure of either, the semantics are irrelevant. Trait Industrious (sub-trait of Conscientiousness, OCEAN/Big 5 model)