Have compassion for people whose personality traits are not currently in demand and highly paid. They were needed in the past, and they probably will be needed in the future. Don't cancel them. The present circumstances are just a roll of the dice and times change.

This should be the first lecture in every introductory college psychology course. It makes the field super relevant and applicable.

I worked in software for 30 years. What I saw is that those who did best were most often the good politicians. They either knew who to crawl to, or they had gotten control of something important, and made sure others did not understand it. The software engineer who is clever, diligent and writes good clear code, that works well and is easy to maintain is easy to lay off. The software engineer who writes poor code that no-one else can understand is hard to lay off because they are hard to replace. Managers rarely know how good an engineer is, all they know is the image they create. I have seen engineers who rush their work, creating lots of bugs in poor code, become the favourite of the boss. And intelligence is not a predictor of success in software engineering, I’ve seen stupid people do much better than clever ones, because they have social skills that allow them to please the boss, even when their work is mediocre. This is in the UK, we don’t respect training, or intelligence. Trades do succeed based on ability. A good plumber gets a reputation and has no trouble finding customers, in fact they usually have to turn them away, or make them wait months.

He's referencing the Factor 5 model of personality. A psychologist recommended I take a 300 question assessment to help me understand my personality. Its called the IPIP-NEO. I hope thats helpful for people reading the comments.

I found my niche in ICU nursing. I worked night shift. Most families, doctors, and hospital staff were on days. Most of my patients were unconscious. I did enjoy the job and even enjoyed the teaching (families) aspect. I had 12 hours (and I might never see them again) to use the science of nursing to move people towards a less critical level and make them comfortable...all by myself.

I'm jealous of those students that get to have this man as their professor. ❤️🙌🏾👌🏾 Imagine having to listen to wisdom spewed so eloquently on a regular basis.

And they deemed this guy unfit to keep his license??

Interesting that he mentions dogs in relation to industriousness in that working dogs see their work as a game. Also it is a game in which they receive reward upon successful outcome. Perhaps there is a connection there worth exploring between game and industriousness in humans.

Often figuring one's own nature and find out how to move forward according to it is much harder than evaluating other people.

I'm an introvert and the career advice he gave was literally life changing. I can be outgoing and social at times, but it's more show I guess

7:14 That guy awkardly trying to enter as not to interrupt Peterson is hilarious haha

Reading, then closing the book to write a summary by remembering what you read, that is useful. Thank you!

I was pushed to be agreeable by my narcissistic family..however as I broke off, I am disagreeable and can stand for myself

I took the Understanding myself test by Dr. Peterson and I turned out to be more extroverted than I thought. It’s very helpful. Best $10 I’ve ever spent. I highly recommend it.

Thank you! This short made me focus on how to move forward in life logically. Very grateful!

I was borne in a place and time where virtue had a high social currency....and that meant being agreeable to peers, no contradiction to elders, focus on just one repetitive redundant work with no socialising, and no option for creativity. With that kind of upbringing, it's difficult to fit in today's world stage where self expressions, debate, and networking are the way to go.

I love this subject. I keep thinking about the personality breakdown of people I meet, and describe people using the Big5 dimensions.

I love the advice you give to your students about treating their university career as a full-time job and strategize by using a calendar. I wish I had a first-year professor who gave me that advice.

My dad gave me the same advice, to consider my study to be a full time job. To plan what to learn and when. I was at the time considering to stop my study. He kept me from it. He never got to study but knew the importance of it. That is still the best advice my father has given me until now. It was great to hear Jordan mention this to his students. He is helping them to really succeed and is giving them sound advice how to.

I really enjoyed this. Temperament is fascinating. Definitely worth studying in depth.

The Big 5 - something that I was never taught in clinical psychology even at the doctoral level at a competitive school. I learned it far later and it is incredibly helpful. People were more hung up on the MMPI than this and this is far more practical.

Wow his presentation and tone catches you. I couldn't but have my full attention throughout the whole video

What an incredible gift he has for teaching and lecturing! There's such a humility and empathy about him even though he is brilliant and that's why I admire him.

I love Dr Peterson's deep thinking, analytical skills and the passion about being excellent communicator, to name just a few characteristics...

His lecture satisfies my day

Wonderful video!! It's been a huge eye-opener for me to understand that conscientiousness refers to the word 'consciousness' aka (in my interpretation) mindfully listening to the right-brain's subconscious pattern recognition. And the insight that some people are stuck in the word because they lack the ability to re-structure their place in the world and don't exchange their envirionment for one where they're better suited to function.

Man, I wish I’d been on this guy’s courses. It’s wonderful it’s all here to watch.

I love Jordan Im happy I got his name right when I was talking about his teachings while I was recording. This man has taught me so much. God bless sending love form my 4c hair 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️❤️❤️❤️

Just did the personality test and I’m glad that I seem to be on the right track. I have very low agreeableness, am relatively introverted, have low conscientiousness, high openness and low neuroticism. I’m working to be more disciplined and to improve my conscientiousness and as someone who is studying accounting in uni and who wants to be an entrepreneur I’m glad that my personality seems suited towards that.

impressed by the way you changed your look over the years. Pretty astonishing step up

Thank you for help in knowing calling.

I forced myself to act more industrious and conscientious than I really was because I was in survival mode. Then when everything finally calmed down... I didn't know who I was anymore because I hadn't even realized what I'd done.

i wish JP would speak more about this type of psychology subjects instead of genders and politics and so on. unfortunately people pushed him that point, i hope he can come back to his origin of expertise

Brilliant as always Mr. Peterson!

Thank you Mr Peterson

9:54 personal timestamp - recalling is the key

Thank you for saving my life 🙏🏼

very good lecture....thank you

Oh yes! Loved listening in on this lecture. Now i need more...lol. thanks 😉👍❤

This is one of the best lectures of his that I've ever seen. It made so many things about people make more sense. And I love the way he talks about things like politics in a completely matter-of-fact way. It's refreshing to hear after getting bombarded by nothing but extremism form both sides for the last like 5 years.

I was that student that organized a schedule for each semester at thr beginning like it was a religion and I was doing that at 17.. But its nice that this professor is encouraging that because most students don't know to do that.

Thank you so much

Also, reviewing 3 times before moving on to any material AND reviewing the old material before studying new material is very helpful.

Improving wisdom is what we need.

I was educated as a veterinarian and we were responsible for a huge amount of information about physiology, pathology, medicine/ disease, surgery/anatomy and pharmacy with regard to seven species of animals which incidentially are all completely different (IE 7 times what human doctors need to learn). I developed a method of summarizing my notes with very small writing on sheets of paper and then commiting that to memory and then sleeping on it and reviewing it when I awoke as Dr. Peterson suggested.

Jordan Peterson just got is team ready to scale content > IP = ready, now it will only be pushed more and more until everybody knows about personality and actual success theory called psychology.

Superb Analysis

this man needs to be heard by all young people. I wish i had heard all of this when i was in my twenties.

This guy is so smart. I can follow along but at the same time my adhd only processes some portions at a time

Amazing how much better Jordan Peterson is looking nowadays ❤

Thank You My bos🙏🧠

With PTSD complex and wish to work with people is a nigthmare! Healing first and Work goal after

Industriousness itself may not be the correct measure to look for in person’s personality of you want to assess consciousness, but may be a symptom of external factors triggering another inherent trait such as ego, making industriousness more externally motivated.

Thank you

This is best version of Jordan Peterson

I'm happy but not very social. I like my solitude. I enjoy the company of a few friends from time to time but that dries up in short order.

This the hits home for me💯

I've definitely noticed I have a general bias towards conservatism and and am also quite conscientious. Of course I'm aware of this bias and try to look beyond it but I also find myself sitting center to moderate right pretty consistently.

I'm introverted & somewhat neurotic but still very happy. How does that make sense? I'm in touch with the pain of life but I enjoy being thoughtful about it because it's our human experience.

On the topic of cramming... I've always found it spectacularly effective at getting sufficient raw information inside the brain. I've done everything from 3 days to 1 day before an exam, to recording myself reciting my last-minute notes and summaries and then playing it back as I sleep, all in a bid to increase memory retention and recall. For me, the primary difference between studying over a longer duration is that of increasing your opportunities to synthesize knowledge. But many exams, particularly for subjects that do not test using essays, do not ask that you synthesize knowledge; they ask that you regurgitate specific facts and information. I've also found paying attention during lectures (especially if the lecturer is really good at storytelling and sharing information in a compelling manner) to be extremely useful in reducing the need for conscientious studying over a long time. Habits like journaling and dialogs right after the lesson also helped. When I was younger I was subjected to numerous IQ tests, and found my IQ to be between 130 - 140. But, I can say with certainty that conscientiousness was always a weakness for me. It was often easier to let my thinking speed carry me reflexively and reactively, so life had moments of feeling chaotic and out of control. Yet, I always felt I performed best when I created chaotic circumstances, and was left feeling bored when I created highly organized, predictable patterns.

The students look so bored and unengaged. Imagine being so lucky to have this genius as your professor.

I could listen to this guy forever

Priceless. I say this because I didn't have to pay tuition and book fees to sit in on his class.

After two degrees, one in microbiology and one medical, am absolutely an extrovert and a creative 😂Hardly followed a study schedule. I don’t know how I did it

I like Wabi Sabi, but it is difficult to achieve that mindset when society pushes people for ultimate perfection/production. It would be interesting to know how much our world views/philosophical beliefs contribute to our personality traits (or vise versa)?

Fascinating

How do you, or can you differentiate between what motivates someone and the big five trait of conscientiosness? For instance, I did well in school only when I was interested in the subject or my college soccer eligibility was in jeopardy. Also, I see zero sense in making my bed when I can get started with work first thing in the morning or the fact that I will be sleeping in that same bed again that night, only to mess it up again. Do the two factors of motivation and concientiousness have any correlation? It would seem that certain motivations or rank ordering tasks can turn on certain personality traits if there was a correlation with motivation. Is this a garbage assestment of personality traits from a lay person, or is there something to that?

I took a personality test and scored bottom 10 percentile in everything except neuroticism, where i scored top 10 percentile. My IQ is pretty much carrying me through life. Also damn if only all teachers were as clear and passionate as jordan peterson.

Thanks!

I would have liked to have seen examples of fields of work for each personality trait i.e. extroversion and sales etc. God bless~

I would have liked to poll this particular class to assess their degree of appreciation and engagement, on a scale from 1-10, in terms of the greatness they witnessed before them.

The company I work for takes these tests for all employees to try to match managers and balance teams. Even use the data to resolve issues. Our joke in the office is I am very extroverted on my terms. When I'm done I close the gate to my private road and don't interact. Need to play to your strengths.

5:11 pretty true in Norway and Sweden

He has a very interesting way of teaching

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

This talk reminds me a lot of the Japanese concept of "Ikigai"

I'm sure with subtitles/cc you'll get a lot more subscribers.

love you J.B.P.

Hopefully high school students will understand the importance of higher education. There are so many good professor, this one just happens to show his face on UKposts.

Not sure about one thing: I'm pretty orderly and conscientious but I'm not conservative at all (neither politically nor in the way I live my life). I work in creative endeavours most of the time.

Interesting lecture about the big 5 sir!

My temperature is Introversion, disagreeable, industrious, low in neuroticism, and low in creativity(which oddly I love to draw and paint) and I used to work in retail, I felt weak, anxious, drained and always bitter. Now I work in contractions. I LOVE IT. I don’t have to talk I just work with my hands and build with a team and talk directly about what’s mostly concerning us to gather information to achieve something to our personal judgement, what I disliked about retail it was the same shit everyday, construction there a different challenge everytime that makes you think, working with entitled customers you gotta put a smile on your face and act agreeable to it, in construction you get called a pussy when you cry for bleeding and fight someone when they are being disrespectful I LOVE IT

So I'm high in openness, low in conscientious,and near the middle in terms of extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. What do I do?

An interesting question would be the reverse. How does your choice of field affect the evolution of your personality? I do not think personality is a deep biological or genetic trait, it definitely evolves over time, and there is selection pressure for what sort of personality traits are most adaptive towards that field. We adapt out personality from the microcosm of our childhood into the general population of society. We start out with fairly extreme personalities, but I think they converge as we adapt to the selection pressure put on us by society.

I'm extroverted and autistic, I make a lot of mistakes but I enjoy it so much, that makes the struggle worth it. I a high sense of conscientiousness but also a higher sense of openess. I struggle to order much of the world but I can compartimetalize it and act within that division but I'm also able to change it even though my choices become weighted very heavily. I realize how contradictory this appears but it's true. I do have limitations

I am more introverted, but not completely. I am a secondary Ed teacher and enjoy the students and subject matter. After the workday, I do prefer time alone.

Should it not be the goal for all of us to develop those parts of our personality that are lacking? Introverts would benefit greatly from learning to be more outgoing, and extroverts from looking within. Same with openness and conscientiousness. Agreeability and disagreeability. Thus creating the best version of ourselves, that can choose the appropriate trait for each situation. Wholeness.

Just my two cents here but I think industriousness does appear in nature. Particularly in creatures that have to prep for winter creating food stashes or larders. Its a raw survival instinct, the same could be argued for people that live in cooler climates that prep for winter. Just a thought

If anyone took the Big 5 or OCEAN tests and had some apparent inconsistencies with their life experience, ChatGPT does a phenomenal job of sorting through the possible reasons. Example: I had numerous dimensions that would have predicted the opposite academic performance. I very much like this model, but it is still highly simplified.

I didn’t trade youth for money. I couldn’t appreciate my youth in my youth. Now in my 40’s I would say time has allowed me to catch up with myself and now we meet (me, myself and I). Now we have move confidently forward with scars, and forgiveness, compassion, and love for self and all life forms both great and small. And the more I learn the clearer it becomes I know nothing. 🥰😘

Does anybody else find that what you are skilled at and what you enjoy can be very different? For me, I love teaching elementary age kids but find all the noise over stimulating. I'm skilled within medical customer service but find the frequent interruptions draining. Idk. What energizes me vs what I'm good at can be very different.

industriousness is left brain, conscientious people, who are also open right brain. The balance of the two traits driving openness to a point where it doesn't overwhelm the conscious part, that is fairly high but not too high to the point of being over analytical or a perfectionist. Industrious people must settle for quick answers that are good enough, but leave that issue on their open mind to ponder further in an unconscious way. Hence it isn't a direct measurement but a concern due to experience. Technically an industrious person isn't positive or sure of their choices. They feel they have no choice but to settle with what they know is the best. Often working to a goal set by their left brain conscientiousness with an imagination that is supplied by their right brain openness. So asking questions to determine if someone is industrious would require cross referencing the two traits.. ruffly ideal industrious.. conscientious "c, openness "o", inteligence "i" .. ((c/o)*i ) might be a good way of calculating industriousness. I'm not good at math but maybe log(c-85/o)*log(o-65/c)*i-181 would be another way.. maybe someone who knows how to calculate ranges in a formula could do better.

The professor said measuring industrialness, measuring workers' productivity is a measurement of industriness. Perhaps focusing on economic measurements.

Happiness = Peace of Mind. I am a socialized Introvert.

01:13 Matt Walsh on the first bench taking notes

"You trade your youth for money, if you're fortunate. I don't think the trade is really worth it." Young and broke beats old and rich unless you're talking about being in abject poverty. Once you get older, you start developing a lot more health issues and your body can't recover as quickly as it used to. You're only going to be young once and once that period has passed, no amount of money can buy that time back.

Any resources on finding a career that lines up?

Peterson needs to read some Alan Watts especially Psychotherapy East VS West

I was expecting to learn more about neuroticism because I'm trying to make that trait work for me. I was a bit disappointed that it was only partially discussed. To any psychologists (student or a professional), or anybody really, that is willing to answer some questions while reading the comments. May I ask, how can I make neuroticism work for me? I've always scored high on this Big 5 personality trait whether I took an online test or an official real life one. I've researched a bit about it and most of the articles and research papers I've read almost always associate neuroticism with negative outcomes to certain areas of life (career or interpersonal). I hope my statement makes sense, I'm trying to figure out certain aspects of my personality (and life in general) and this is one of my big hurdles to overcome.

His questionnaire is more focused on cross artistic area achievements than on creativity itself. True creativity is about new patterns not necessarily different skill sets. A painter can be at an higher level of creativity than a jack of all trades and master of none. Sure you can export creativity everywhere, even with common object use, decision making or with idea generation, but you can achieve higher levels if you invest your time and experience on one domain. Granted, having access to different arts gives you new patterns that you can translate to other areas. But in my experience true creativity is experimental - it's about binding and cutting ideas that have never been put together or transformed in such a way. It doesn't have to be functional, beautiful or intelligeable, they only have to be implemented. Naturally they should eventually be those things, but the creative proccess in itself only needs experimentation with uniqueness.