wedrifid comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2010 05:24:59AM *  0 points [-]

One of the critical ones for modern life goes by "Executive Function" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions it seems to be moderately independent of IQ. It could also be called "Self Discipline".

It's correlated with self discipline but it is actually a different ability. In fact, some with problems with executive function compensate by developing excessive self discipline. (Having a #@$%ed up system for dealing with prioritisation makes anxiety based perfectionism more adaptive.)