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The 7 Ways Your Personality Can Get in the Way of Your Success, According to Psychology

Jessica Stillman
3 min readOct 19, 2021

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When a team led by Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman combed through data on thousands of people to discover what factors matter most for success in life, they found that IQ mattered a minuscule one or two percent. What mattered a whole lot more? In a word, personality.

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Jessica Stillman

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