Personality what makes you the way you are by Daniel Nettle

Author:Daniel Nettle [Nettle, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9786611160814
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2007
Published: 2007-10-30T18:29:55.757000+00:00

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When the environment is very unpredictable and fluid, low Conscientiousness scorers such as the young men nowadays characterized with ADHD might get on very well indeed.

The broad spectrum of Conscientiousness we see today probably reflects the inconsistency of selection that humans have experienced in the past.

I don’t have any examples as extreme as OCPD in the case studies I have gathered, but some of the problems as well as advantages of high Conscientiousness are detectable in one story in particular, and it is with this story that I shall end this chapter. Katherine grew up in a remote provincial city in Scotland, to parents who were doctors. She graduated from school with the maximum grades that it is possible to have (putting her in the top few per cent of academic attainment for her cohort), and, passing on to one of Scotland’s finest universities, earned not one but two Bachelor’s degrees over four years. She certainly worked hard. As she says: I took on a masochistic amount of work . . . which included part-time research jobs, teaching assistant position, part-time job marking exams, completing my dissertation, and the rest of my courses . . . I completed 200 hours of volunteer work and served in elected offices for student organizations, including as Secretary and Treasurer of the voluntary organization I was part of.

What might explain this prodigious array of activity?

Katherine says:

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