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Improving your personality, with Olga Khazan

Very Serious with Josh Barro

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Is Conscientiousness a Good Strategy for Success?

A lot of people, it's like one of the most valued things that people want to change about themselves. Being organized helps you succeed in your job and if you become more organized, you may be more successful. But some of these things, like openness, more successful people tend to be more open. Openness is also highly correlated to intelligence. A conscientiousness is a trait that is pretty correlated with success. And there aren't like, correlation and causation problems, right? Like maybe becoming a co like those people were used to being like total slackers who would like smoke whead all. Suddenly they became a c o of the company, and they were like, oh, my god

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