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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates

Aucune des études en question n’est parfaite, mais les résultats en sont cohérents et suggèrent que l’introversion et l’extraversion, à l’image d’autres traits de caractère généraux comme la gentillesse et l’attention aux autres, sont d’origine héréditaire pour 40 à 50 % des cas.

They found that, as they got older, men’s inner-core social networks (essentially their support group) declined from 7.4 to 6.1

routine is a better friend to them than inspiration”

there was an upper limit at four on the number of people actually engaged with each other in a conversation and an upper limit at around three on the number of people who laughed together during a conversation.

Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing

In the 1930s, Max Kleiber, a Swiss agricultural biologist, observed that, across mammal species, from shrews to elephants, the energy required to maintain basic metabolic function is closely correlated with an organism’s body size.

most people will do more to avoid loss than to benefit from an equivalent gain.

The troublemakers, although still very much of a problem, are actually few and far between, perhaps five percent of the population.