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Welcome back to the podcast.

I am joined here with Alec Zane, hey everyone, and he is a fourth year medical student who

has been working on an episode with me for a while.

This is an episode on neuroticism.

Neuroticism is one of the big five personality types.

So the other ones are extroversion, which is like gregariousness, enthusiasm, assertiveness,

social ability, there's agreeableness, which is compassion, politeness, you know, having

a maternal orientation, carrying more about others than yourself, cooperation, more than

competitiveness, warmth, and then there's openness to experience, which is a combination

of interest and ideas, interest in aesthetics, interest in ideas, creative pursuits, and

then conscientiousness, which is orderliness, industrialism.

It's a good predictor of long-term success, especially academic attainment, and it is

someone who is very organized orderly.

So this is on neuroticism, and neuroticism is a negative emotionality associated

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