Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade 221
A study authored by Christopher Nave, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, says that our personalities stay pretty much the same from early childhood all the way through old age. From the article: "Using data from a 1960s study of approximately 2,400 ethnically diverse schoolchildren (grades 1 - 6) in Hawaii, researchers compared teacher personality ratings of the students with videotaped interviews of 144 of those individuals 40 years later. They examined four personality attributes - talkativeness (called verbal fluency), adaptability (cope well with new situations), impulsiveness and self-minimizing behavior (essentially being humble to the point of minimizing one's importance)." This must explain my overriding need to be first captain when we pick kickball teams at the office.
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Hawaii, yeah that's a pretty typical place, I'm sure it being studied in Hawaii won't skew the results.
It probably won't because the results sound right, but still, in the interest of science, I would have been more satisfied if they would have done the study in more than one area of the country/world.
I was also annoyed by my 1st grade teacher not teaching us the Cyrillic and Japanese alphabet as well as the Latin one.
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Or how many suffered a deeply traumatic experience later...?
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Just my
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I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth? I've had the occasional habit throughout my life of being a bit of a rube, and spending money on "experts." My observations so far have been:
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Not meant as an inflammatory remark at all ...
Re:How many of those kids .. (Score:4, Insightful)
Namely Middle School for boys and High School for girls.
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I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth?
college?
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That may be a realistic figure, but that doesn't make it reasonable.
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I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth?
My guess would be L Ron Hoover's First Church of Appliantology.
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Why is everyone slamming this guy for spending 70k on himself? It's his money, obviously he thought it was worth it. Sounds like he is a better person for it all around. I applaud you, sir. Not everyone is as brave as you are. Not everyone has the strength to face their own demons.