Yes, that’s what I was trying to do with the parent comment. I used myself as a reference for these points, as well as drawing on various anecdotes I’ve heard about other people.
E.g. I’m high on “negative willpower”, high on perseverance against physical discomfort (tiredness, hunger, pain), low on perseverance against boredom, frustration, and the feeling of being stuck.
I’m very low on #1, and also have low affinity for, say, math, and hence I never put in the hours for learning it well, but I’ve heard of people who are also low on #1 but happen to have very high affinity for math, who’d go on and entertain themselves with their equations and theorems while dishes gathered in the sink and rent went unpaid. (Proof they don’t necessarily have better work ethic than me.) Then there are people who do mildly dislike crouching over math textbooks for hours, but are very high on #3 and push themselves to keep going. (Proof that sometimes it is a matter of work ethic.)
I listed #5 as its own factor because it can override other items on the list, and all the other items above it lacked any inherent reference to external factors. It could be a strong or a weak tendency; for instance, I notice about myself that I’m not particularly moved by rewards or punishments; moreover, my indifference to them seems tweaked especially to cause me to lose the greatest amount of money possible, either by missing opportunities or by having to pay up. (That’s why I never ever plan on using Beeminder.) #6 is there because the whole thing lacked a time dimension without it. For example, however badly I might fare on other points, I’m only a moderate procrastinator (for tasks I don’t loathe with a fervor), tend to begin working on assignments towards the midpoint of the available time range, and consider the long term.
Yes, that’s what I was trying to do with the parent comment. I used myself as a reference for these points, as well as drawing on various anecdotes I’ve heard about other people.
E.g. I’m high on “negative willpower”, high on perseverance against physical discomfort (tiredness, hunger, pain), low on perseverance against boredom, frustration, and the feeling of being stuck.
I’m very low on #1, and also have low affinity for, say, math, and hence I never put in the hours for learning it well, but I’ve heard of people who are also low on #1 but happen to have very high affinity for math, who’d go on and entertain themselves with their equations and theorems while dishes gathered in the sink and rent went unpaid. (Proof they don’t necessarily have better work ethic than me.) Then there are people who do mildly dislike crouching over math textbooks for hours, but are very high on #3 and push themselves to keep going. (Proof that sometimes it is a matter of work ethic.)
I listed #5 as its own factor because it can override other items on the list, and all the other items above it lacked any inherent reference to external factors. It could be a strong or a weak tendency; for instance, I notice about myself that I’m not particularly moved by rewards or punishments; moreover, my indifference to them seems tweaked especially to cause me to lose the greatest amount of money possible, either by missing opportunities or by having to pay up. (That’s why I never ever plan on using Beeminder.) #6 is there because the whole thing lacked a time dimension without it. For example, however badly I might fare on other points, I’m only a moderate procrastinator (for tasks I don’t loathe with a fervor), tend to begin working on assignments towards the midpoint of the available time range, and consider the long term.