If you’re neurotic, introverted, or otherwise weird, embrace those qualities and use them to your advantage.
, just last month, found that neurotic people may live longer, having a lower risk of death from all causes, including cancer. This may be because they’re less likely to let routine care fall by the wayside, and more likely to seek medical care when something does go wrong.
Creativity is definitely celebrated more than it was. Though certain disciplines have always relied on outside-of-the-box thinkers – art, literature, science, film-making, and advertising – it hasn’t always been so cherished in the mainstream. But in part because of the way technology has changed the game, there’s much more opportunity and outlets for outside-the-box thinking, from the tech industry itself, to the creative entrepreneurial opportunities that exist because of it.
found that valedictorians did do well for themselves, but they tended not to be the real innovators or disruptors in their fields."They obey rules, work hard and like learning, but they're not the mold breakers," said in a Boston College interview."They work best within the system and aren't likely to change it."
And this willingness to evaluate and reevaluate yourself can take you far in life."If you're sitting around a table at a meeting and the boss is very low in intellectual humility, he or she isn't going to listen to other people's suggestions,"study author Mark Leary in a statement."Yet we know that good leadership requires broadness of perspective and taking as many perspectives into account as possible.
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