A considerable amount of what can be changed is changed , deliberately or not, by parents and guardians, as you know. We never talked with our son much about charity, but somehow he saw what we did and , at a very young age, was personally charitable.
Public gestures, no matter how small, can carry a big impact. When you see other people returning grocery carts, you are , I believe, more likely to do so.
Well, this validates what I've said to my son since he was a tyke. "You can be whatever you want--- except an asshole." The trick is paying attention enough to praise a kid when he shows pro-social qualities and identifying when we see it in others.
WRT personality tests, over time I've shifted from answering aspirationally (e.g., what I think I should do to become the person I wan t to be) to answering reflectively (e.g., what I think I have done or thought and will do in any given situation queried). I've gotten meaningfully different results on select vectors as a result, with the latter approach being more accurate. I wonder if others have had this "epiphany," or is this in itself indicative of a personality trait/ flaw? FWIW, I don't recall many tests I've taken stressing the importance of the latter, but maybe they do and I just don't read the instructions thoroughly. My two cents.
Quote: "we spend a lot of time, attention, and resources into improving people’s academic aptitude. Usually with very limited success."
Maybe that's because the smart people who run our society don't care to make one that fits the human material that actually exists: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U0C9HKW
"confrontational" clumps with gregariousness and not (dis)agreeableness? That seems counterintuitive. Also, don't these five categories have multiple sub-categories and don't these sub-categories interact and combine in all kinds of different ways? Human beings are far more complex emotionally I think than this simple five dimensional model might lead one to think. Just my opinion.
A considerable amount of what can be changed is changed , deliberately or not, by parents and guardians, as you know. We never talked with our son much about charity, but somehow he saw what we did and , at a very young age, was personally charitable.
Public gestures, no matter how small, can carry a big impact. When you see other people returning grocery carts, you are , I believe, more likely to do so.
Well, this validates what I've said to my son since he was a tyke. "You can be whatever you want--- except an asshole." The trick is paying attention enough to praise a kid when he shows pro-social qualities and identifying when we see it in others.
Quote: "People who are low in neuroticism and high on extraversion tend to have more children"
That has interesting evolutionary implications, doesn't it? Are there more people like that than with any other combination of traits?
I'd be intrigued to hear more about the link between intelligence and lower conscientiousness. And not entirely to justify my own lack of discipline.
WRT personality tests, over time I've shifted from answering aspirationally (e.g., what I think I should do to become the person I wan t to be) to answering reflectively (e.g., what I think I have done or thought and will do in any given situation queried). I've gotten meaningfully different results on select vectors as a result, with the latter approach being more accurate. I wonder if others have had this "epiphany," or is this in itself indicative of a personality trait/ flaw? FWIW, I don't recall many tests I've taken stressing the importance of the latter, but maybe they do and I just don't read the instructions thoroughly. My two cents.
Quote: "we spend a lot of time, attention, and resources into improving people’s academic aptitude. Usually with very limited success."
Maybe that's because the smart people who run our society don't care to make one that fits the human material that actually exists: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U0C9HKW
"confrontational" clumps with gregariousness and not (dis)agreeableness? That seems counterintuitive. Also, don't these five categories have multiple sub-categories and don't these sub-categories interact and combine in all kinds of different ways? Human beings are far more complex emotionally I think than this simple five dimensional model might lead one to think. Just my opinion.