Mark Manson

you are put through a quick big five assessment.

Because I just explained to him, I was like, simply getting people's, the user's big five personality traits, is it going to immediately make the AI twice as effective as like, you know, chat GPT out of the box,

just because it's there's so much fucking research around the big five and like all the outcomes it drives in people's lives that just understanding those traits about somebody can like completely alter how you talk to them what sort of advice you give them how how they should approach a different context so

Understanding these things is like so fundamental and core.

And then once you understand them, don't fight them.

Like there's nothing wrong with you.

You can be a disagreeable person.

The world needs disagreeable people.

We need people to like be fucking dicks and fight for good things, right?

We need...

low conscientious people we need people who are just like go with the flow and are like easy and are happy to like live in any situation like the world needs all types of people and so understanding what type of person you are can help you adapt and build a better relationship that you have with the world so everything in this chapter has been about your traits the deepest layer of your personality and who you are

It's the layer that is most fundamentally you and what's most unchangeable and inherent about you.

But in the next chapter, we're going to get into the next layer, and that starts to get into the layer that we can actually change.

But to explain that next layer, we're actually going to end up debunking one of the most popular psychological studies ever done.

So our traits are the deepest level of ourselves, at least that we've discovered at this point.

I think it's useful to think of them as the playing field that you're working with.

So everything you do has to be kind of on top of them.

They define the game that you're playing, even if they don't determine everything you do within the game.

But here's what's really interesting is that you can have two people with extremely similar big five personality profiles, but completely different lives, completely different outcomes, and they behave completely differently in different contexts and circumstances.

And so...