Sublime

One study tracked more than six thousand young adults in the US at the beginning of their careers over the course of two decades, and found that those who believed that life’s outcomes are due to their own efforts as opposed to external factors became more successful in their careers and went on to attain higher earnings.25

Your habitual ways of interacting with the important people in your life tell us a great deal about the defense mechanisms you typically use.

Gifted people are global and sophisticated thinkers, who have a unique psychological structure. They possess a greater capacity and thirst for knowledge and discovery, experience enhanced sensual stimuli, and feel a full range of emotions to an immensely deep level.

Deviations from expected values to determine mental advantages and disadvantages

By far the most extensively examined—and firmly established—system for grouping personality traits is the framework known as the Big Five. (Other systems, such as the Myers-Briggs test—or MBTI, as it is also known—are less widely used in academic psychology.) The Big Five traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neur

most Americans who lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shared the view that character was the most significant part of personality—and the part that could be improved through conscious effort.

One of the most salient psychological characteristics of those who choose professional careers is a strong need for autonomy. People choose professions (rather than, say, corporate careers) because the work is not routine or rigidly structured. Thus, the professions have more than their share of people with an aversion to taking directions.