http://finance.yahoo.com/news/personality-trait-most-often-predicts-153124913.html
"It's emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan," Paul Tough writes in "How Children Succeed." "It really goes cradle to grave in terms of how people do."
Tough
says that people who test high in conscientiousness get better grades
in school and college, commit fewer crimes, and stay married longer.
They
live longer, too, he says. And not just because they smoke and drink
less. They have fewer strokes, lower blood pressure, and a lower
incidence of Alzheimer's disease.
Dean, when I look around at those in my life, I buy into this. Two reasons you might disagree: (1) the definition of success and (2) correlation does not mean cause/effect. For example, I'm a conscientious person, but that is unlikely to prevent my stroke, and my success has come in the form of pats on the head and being appreciated, rather than a financial reward.
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