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301. Politics: Tradition and Vision | Newt Gingrich

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Openness a Predictor of Academic Success?

I did some work with the US Naval Academy in Maryland, and we were looking at personality factors that predict military ranking and to some degree academic success. The next most powerful predictor was trait conscientiousness. That's basically orderliness and industriousness. Certainly openness, which is the creativity dimension predicted not at all. And if you're open and creative at the bottom rungs of an organization like that, all you're going to do is cause trouble.

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