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In a blog post titled, “The Four Quadrants of Conformism,” technology investor Paul Graham says most people fall into one of four categories: those who are aggressively conventional-minded, passively conventional-minded, passively independent-minded, and aggressively independent-minded.

age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.

friendly, fun, down-to-earth, masculine, charming, sporty or intelligent.

Between 1990 and 1995, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his students exhaustively studied ninety-one exceptional innovators. “If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others,” Csikszentmihalyi noted in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, “it would be complexity. By this I mean that they

Around 20 per cent of the students were committed larks who were active mainly in the morning and died socially by the evening, and 20 per cent were committed owls who hardly stirred before midday but came into full social mode in the evening and into the night,

As we examined the rooms, we began to notice their occupants’ psychological footprints and to glimpse the different ways personality is expressed. Three broad mechanisms—identity claims, feeling regulators, and behavioral residue—seemed to connect people to the spaces that surrounded them.

Give him even more points if some of his friends are much older than he his, or much younger. This means that he is flexible and can get along with just about anyone. If he is committed to his friends and introduces you to them, you’ve hit the jackpot.

In fact, a variety of studies have found that people wearing glasses are perceived as honest, industrious, smarter, and more dependable.