Sky Pines Avenue.

Welcome to the show everybody.

I'm so excited.

I just finished my great courses plus class called Why You Are Who You Are

Investigations into Human Personality. why you are who you are investigations into human personality

personality research one of my favorite topics so accessible this is the

single most accessible class that I have ever taken I think that anyone could listen to it. I

think that you could play it to a friend or spouse or family member or whatever and

they would immediately grasp these these topics even if they've never had any

interest in science or anything before and it's really just such a fantastic

subject I like having a few different classes going on at once and I feel

like I make novel connections that way and then remember things better. But this class that I I finished it just had me thinking so much I've

been kind of struggling with my organizational skills and kind of fell out of my

exercise and so I'm gonna talk a little bit about this in the in the

bonus content of the show but just understanding the different aspects of your

personality that drive different behavior different levels of say conscientiousness is like an easy kind of broad one but really

digging into how like in my case low levels of conscientiousness have really negatively affected my life. I have a lot of

things going with me. I'm a fairly smart guy. I'm pretty creative. I'm I'm

pretty ambitious. I'm an adventurous person, but I am not a very responsible and organized person I take too many risks in life and and I just gamble with myself and my well-being and my livelihood too much and

you know it makes for an interesting life but just thinking about those aspects of my personality

and hearing about you know the kind of common personality traits that others have and what leads to that, some of the genetic

underpinnings and really a lot of what happened in your upbringing, different

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