Mark Manson

And a certain amount is driven by our environment and our childhood.

And as you said in passing there, which I think this is a really important point to drive home, the older we get, especially as we enter adulthood and as we do get towards middle age, to William James's point, it really does start to set.

Up to this point, we've been talking about, like, you can't really change your traits a whole lot.

If you're like 15 years old and listening to this, you are the probably the exception, right?

You're a lot more valuable.

Yes.

If you're 22, you're still kind of an exception, but maybe less of an exception than the 15 year old.

Whereas if you're listening to this and you're like 45.

Probably harder.

Yeah.

It's going to be very, very hard.

So I think it's probably worth stating for the listener, younger listeners, you're going to have a little bit more influence on these traits.

So if you are, say, very introverted and you'd like to be more extroverted, or if you're not very conscientious, you'd like to be more conscientious.

The levers that you can pull on the behavioral and the adaptation level are probably going to have a little bit more force than, say, somebody listening who's 50 or 60 years old.

Right.

He's softy.

Yeah.

Right.

It's like the entire tide shifts.

Yes.