- What are the Big 5?
- What is Success?
- Entrepreneurial & Creative Thinking
- Achieving Success in the Job World
- Achieving Success in the Social World
- Achieving Happiness
- Other Factors determining Success
- Weekly Task List
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What are the Big 5?
The Big 5 is a universal theory about personality that identifies five core personality traits. Everybody has those five traits, in different levels of expression. The Traits are:
- Openness to Experience: Curiosity, Imagination & Willingness to try new things
- Conscientiousness: Responsibility & Dependability, Discipline & Organization
- Extraversion: Sociability, Outgoingness & Assertiveness
- Agreeableness: Cooperation & Teamwork, Empathy & Friendliness
- Neuroticism: Emotional Instability, Anxiety & Moodiness
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What is Success?
Success is what fulfills you. It has to be defined by each person individually. Depending on what success is for you, having certain levels of the five traits are helpful to achieve what you want:
- High levels of Conscientiousness: Success in the Job World đŒ
- High levels of Agreeableness: Success in the Social World đ§âđ€âđ§
- Low levels of Neuroticism: Happiness đ, as well as Success in Job & Social World
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Entrepreneurial & Creative Thinking
Regardless if you are an artist or an entrepreneur trying to come up with new ideas and solutions, you need to be able to think and be creative.
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Achieving Success in the Job World
âŠthrough developing towards high levels of Conscientiousness:
âYou always hold the rights to your effort, but never to your resultsâ - James Clear
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Achieving Success in the Social World
âŠthrough developing towards high levels of Agreeableness:
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Achieving Happiness
âŠand enable you for success in the job & social world through developing towards lower levels of Neuroticism.
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Other Factors determining Success
Besides Personality, there are other factors that influence achieving success. Some cannot be controlled by us (Intelligence, Race, Gender, Socio-economic background). Others we can control, thus we will focus on those:
- Appearance
- Motivation
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Weekly Task List
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