How to deal with high creativity & neuroticism, low conscientiousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ3fe3vDQao
GPT 4: The video discusses how highly creative individuals who also have high neuroticism can achieve emotional stability. The key advice is to increase conscientiousness, as it helps keep neuroticism in check. The author suggests organizing one’s life, establishing routines, and using calendars not as strict schedules but as tools for planning meaningful, productive days. This organization helps manage the typical neurotic response to uncertainty and unexpected events. For creative people, it’s recommended to structure the non-creative aspects of their lives in a traditional, conservative manner, providing stability and allowing them to take risks in their creative endeavors.
For those who are a “jack of all trades, master of none,” the advice is to focus on one primary discipline. This doesn’t mean abandoning creativity or versatility but establishing a solid foundation in one area before expanding into others. This approach creates a base from which to explore and innovate more effectively. The text also touches on the importance of discipline in achieving success, citing Nietzsche’s view on the role of structured discipline in developing the European mind. Finally, it suggests that engaging in a religious faith or any structured practice can instill discipline, likening it to a well-tempered blade that is sharp and effective. The overarching message is to not wait for a passion to find you but to actively choose a focus and pursue it, as the pursuit itself is valuable and often leads to unexpected benefits.
Info about conscientiousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-aSSLu3ctw
GPT 4: The video discusses the challenges of integrating conscientiousness into neuropsychology and neuroscience, noting the lack of a theoretical, neuropsychological, or pharmacological model for it. Unlike other personality traits, such as neuroticism or openness, which have known correlations with certain neurotransmitters and can be influenced pharmacologically (e.g., serotonin reuptake inhibitors for neuroticism, psilocybin mushrooms increasing openness), conscientiousness lacks similar associations. The text highlights the uniqueness of conscientiousness in humans, as it involves foregoing immediate pleasures for future security and opportunities. It also touches on the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex’s role in planning and abstract thinking but notes its negligible correlation with conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is described as a complex attribute involving planning, organization, goal-orientation, and self-control, yet it does not appear to be directly related to cognitive function. Additionally, conscientiousness is linked to life satisfaction and happiness, creating a stable environment that reduces anxiety. The text also explores the relationship between conscientiousness, specific emotions like guilt, and political preferences, suggesting that conservatives tend to be more orderly and less open. It concludes by discussing the importance of orderliness and industriousness in various contexts, including scientific endeavors.
Notes
Conscientiousness may be related to an avoidance of guilt
Tips for low conscientiousness (high openness)
-
High openness: do something creative
-
Do future authoring.
-
Learn to schedule your time
-
wake up at the same time every day
-
schedule your meals
-
“a calendar keeps anxiety at bay” it helps you do what you want to do
-
have something you’re interested in and willing to pursue
-
High neuroticisim: want security
- Bronze age mindset:
“The modern world exhausts and in doing so it makes everything rigid or turns it into a diffuse blob. Physiologically it promotes the stressors, estrogen, serotonin, hyperventilation, over-excitation, the hallmarks of energetic exhaustion. Loss of structure, form and differentiation follows, which was the intention. There follows on this also a spiritual and intellectual rigidity, the orientation of the ideologue, of the social activist, but also of all our intellectual class right and left, as of those who work in the corporate world and in most of the military. They’re stiff and constrained because, in short, they live in utter fear, fear that they will lose something. They have very little to lose, but they live in this fear anyway and this is why when there is a question of potential gain or, worse for them, potential loss, they react with desperation, they freeze in terror and hyperventilate. Our politicians are all like this, and quiver in fear of the spanking hand. Everyone was already so tired of their robotic platitudes, that they repeat out of timidity and because they’re all owned; which is why a man like Trump, who seems not to care, and to find joy in this flouting and energy in this outrageous loosening—he seduces. The modern world is a killjoy, in short. But the ancient Greeks were quite different…”
- Bronze age mindset:
-
High openness: want to be creative
-
conscientious motivation may be “dutifulness” and “fleeing the bottom/underworld”
-
Conscientious: very good at keeping contracts
-
anxiety, “prey animal behavior” is made of neuroticism, hierarchy position, internal ledger of past success/failure. Go back and find these holes, akin to exposure therapy but within your own past memory
-
write about negative memory for 15 minutes over 3 days
-
what your brain wants from you in a traumatic memory is evidence that you won’t get fucked over again
-
realize that nothing truly dangerous is happening OR
-
IF something dangerous did happening, you become not vulnerable to it