The Person and the Situation
"Think about self-control less as the quality of a person and more as the quality of a place. There are some places and situations that lean toward lower self-control and others that lean toward higher self-control. Self-control is about your context as much as your character. Put yourself in good positions."
3-2-1: On the secret to self-control, how to live longer, and what holds people back
routines in the face of changing circumstances.
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
There is something in all of us that makes us instinctively want to explain the world around us in terms of people’s essential attributes: he’s a better basketball player, that person is smarter than I am.
Malcolm Gladwell • The Tipping Point
the Big Five traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness)
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
how you feel/show up around others is completely situational.