Conscientiousness

[sighs] Because why? Because doing the work of God means you're gonna experience opposition from the enemies of God.

Now, Nehemiah's being blessed, but he's also, uh, very cautious, very careful because he's very, [sighs] what's it? Conscientious is the, probably the best word.

He realizes that the governors before him...

He's serving as governor, right? He says 12 years here, 20th year to the 32nd year of Artaxerxes the king.

Concienzudo.

Conscientious.

Conscientious.

Thorough means es verdad, o sea, con... de principio a fin, como Dios manda.

You understand?

All right, here's the first change that we are feeling as highly sensitive people.

Conscientiousness is down in the population.

It's lower.

It's less than years past.

It often appears when you say no and you try to set a boundary or make an independent decision or limit access because you're probably...

Conscientious, and it works.

You feel guilty.

You worry that you're being ungrateful.

So like that kind of person, though, that has that level of discipline, that's super conscientious.

does really well in our society and increasingly so like conscientiousness I think much more than you know strictly speaking like measures of cognitive ability which and for the moment let's set aside all the arguments about that because that's a whole nother episode but Conscientiousness, I think, is the thing that really explains the difference between a lot of liberals like Klein or Alexander and then a lot of people on the left like me, because we're very in touch with, I think.

A more median or modal experience of like.

knowing you're doing the wrong thing and getting really frustrated and wishing that it weren't constantly so tempting to do the wrong thing.

Things don't have to be terrible, destructive things.

blowing up awful for us to put some conscientious time into things.

Conscientious.

That is a hard word.

If you're at home, try to say that word.

... a man of your word.

Conscientious.

I think, yeah, I, I played in the jazz band at school, and our band leader guy was f- like fuming if you canceled or was late or something.

Right.

Let's start with health.

Conscientiousness is the major player here.

The researchers found that a genetic profile for high conscientiousness is directly and causally tied to fewer hospital spells throughout your life.

Wow.