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Personality Traits for entrepreneurs Summary: Openness equals non-discriminatory, right? Equals every new idea is a great idea. It's hard to be creative if you're not discriminatory. Great artists are picky and choosy over what they think the great ideas are. And so maybe you want like high openness, you want high low agreeability - which means high disagreeability. Transcript: Speaker 1 It's like they're nervous system is not wired that way. And so you kind of need to close your eyes and kind of imagine, you know, what if you took somebody who was born to be a musician, for example, and you forced them to become an accountant, right? Or vice versa, like what if you took somebody who was born to be an accountant and forced them to be a musician, right? And both people would be very, very unhappy. And so anyway, this is sort of the inherent trait of creativity, openness. So we say that, you know, that's one, you know, against the, you know, directly related one is agreeableness, right? So open plus agreeable equals every new idea is a great idea, right? Equals non-discriminatory. Well, it's hard to be creative if you're not discriminatory. Like one of the things that great artists have in common is they're like actually really picky and choosy over what they think the great ideas are and they throw away a lot of their like initial attempts. And so maybe you want like high openness, you want high, you want actually high low agreeability, which means high disagreeability, right? So you kind of want that. Conscientiousness, you know, do artists or creators or programmers or entrepreneurs have to be conscientious? Probably yes, to some extent, right? And there's a sub-trade of conscientiousness called industriousness, which basically is like inherent work ethic, right? Sort of drive to get things done. So, you know, you probably need some of that. So, just to start with that, because, when I first heard something like consciousness, right?

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show

As a surgeon, Starzl knew nothing about controlling the immune system, but then, hardly anyone did. Indeed, few therapies have begun more blindly than immunosuppression in the years after World War II. With the goal of simply knocking out T cells, the first transplant patients received full-body irradiation. It was like fixing a watch with a hammer; the procedure, similar to being exposed to a nuclear blast, destroyed their immunities entirely. Patients were like the “bubble boy,” who lived in a Houston hospital for twelve years before dying of massive infection within weeks of being released.

The Billion-Dollar Molecule

Barry Werth

Making Decisions Fast and Well Summary: We go through life making decisions. Should we date person extra wy or get married to them? Should we stay here, or should we move? What jobs should we Transcript: Speaker 1 Go through life-making decisions. Should we date person X or Y or get married to them? Should we stay here or should we move? What job should we choose?

#147 Reid Hoffman — Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes

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