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People who score high in neuroticism have more emotional ups and downs over the course of the day. They can fall into a particular kind of emotional spiral: They are quick to see threats and negative emotions; they interpret ambiguous events more negatively; they are therefore exposed to more negative experiences; this exposure causes them to
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Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial
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Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people.
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google.comOpen-minded people genuinely believe they could be wrong; the questions that they ask are genuine.
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Identity Foreclosure: Dedication to an identity or set of values prematurely and without compromise. Those with identity foreclosure accept the values that others like parents, coaches, siblings, or instructors have placed on them without considering other roles or visions for themselves they might prefer. This can psychologically cut you off from
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