Gad Saad

So I'm first born.

I'm gonna pick whichever one.

The second born is born.

There is N minus one niches.

One is taken.

So the I'm a good boy niche, I got to differentiate myself.

I'm second, I'm an asshole niche.

I'm a contrarian niche.

Let's keep going down the birth order.

There are fewer and fewer unoccupied niches left for later borns, especially if the SIP ship is big.

Soloway argued that that forces the last born to score differently on key personality traits, one of which is open to experience.

So he argued that later borns, up to last borns, by virtue of having to solve that original problem,

will end up being much bigger out-of-the-box thinkers, not being stuck on conformity, on orthodoxy.

Hence, in the context of scientific innovations, the last ones are the ones who say, no, this is bullshit, I'm going this way.

And so I tested that theory

in a consumer psychology setting where I demonstrated that last borns were much more likely to be product innovators and early product adopters.

So I took the exact framework, but instead of applying it to radical scientific innovations, I applied it to radical product innovations and adoptions.

So-

So all that to say that based on that, one could surmise that if openness to experience is correlated to happiness, then the latter borns would score happier.

I think it's a bit of both.