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Barry_Cotter comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Barry_Cotter 12 March 2013 05:46:38AM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, me too. I found getting a relatively structured job with standards so low that my (minimal) natural levels of professionalism exceeded their requirements successful. Conscientiousness is really, really difficult to train, but you can move further from your current base by changing the people you hang out with or work with. Industriousness, OTOH, is trainable. Last comment I saw about this, good paper linked.

You can do better but having low conscientiousness still blows.

Comment author: beoShaffer 12 March 2013 04:59:12PM 0 points [-]

Link missing.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 14 March 2013 04:31:44AM 1 point [-]

No longer true. Cheers for the heads up.