Prepare Your Leadership: Changes In Our Personality

Foreign. Good morning. Hello, Cadre. Happy Monday. Really cold up here in Duluth. Negatives, hopefully warmer wherever you are. Give it about a minute here. Let people join today talking about personality and changes in our personality. Hey, Anna, welcome. Give it about one more minute. Wait for people to join in. Happy Monday. Okay, well, I'll start with how I always start the three lists of three. So what are three things that you're feeling right now? Now could be emotions, could be sensations, like cold, anything that's kind of getting, building awareness to how we are today on Monday, January 13th.

So what are three things that we are feeling right now? And then what are three intentions that we have for the rest of the day? So what are three? Maybe their tasks, maybe their feelings that we want to, you know, shift how we feel into this feeling like anxious, into excitement, kind of using our emotions. What are three intentions that we have? Sick, tired and fatigue. Yeah, a lot of sickness going around right now. I know Luke was talking about on his live streams. So what are three things that we're feeling?

What are three intentions that we have? And then what are three gratitudes that we have? What are three things that we are grateful for? Could be from the weekend, could be going forward, could be from this morning. What are three things we are grateful for? These are has been shown in research to be incremental with, you know, emotional intelligence, emotional awareness, you know, in positive psychology is, you know, awareness of emotions using emotions and then having gratefulness, healing, resting, recovering.

Three great, great things to do for the rest of the day, especially in if you're in Minnesota where it's nice and cold this rest and recovery day. Okay, now that we kind of hit the reset button today, let's look into some research, some psychology that we're that I'm bringing to you now. I'm gonna kind of bring an article called Beyond Personality Environment Alignment at work. It's from the main author is Denise Olmes. She is a researcher at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Big fan of her work and she looks at how personality changes throughout your lifetime in this article.

I'm grateful for the ability and flexibility to rest my sweet. That's dog keeping me company. I've got a cat doing the same thing. And then Cadre. Great, great. Welcome everybody who's joined in. If you want to keep throwing in your three things of three, feel free to. We can revisit them at the end. So three things of three is three things that you're feeling, three intentions that you have for the rest of the day. Maybe it's shifting how you're feeling into positive emotions, then what are three things you are grateful for?

Hello. Speak. Wonder. Welcome, welcome. Happy Monday. Okay, so let's go through this article real quick and we can kind of come back to the three things of three afterwards. So beyond change, Personality, environment, Alignment at work. Big title, what's really going on? They're looking at how personality changes over time. So I've talked about it on here before, how conscientiousness, this is kind of detail oriented, following rules, following a calendar, sitting in like a classroom, being still.

This conscientiousness predicts performance in all jobs across the board, predicts performance there. But other personality traits like agreeableness, so kind of the perspective taking, emotional stability. So it's being able to regulate self, regulate what else? Extroversion. So being outgoing, social and openness, which is just taking risks is kind of depends on the job that you go into. So extroversion is good in sales, emotional stability is good in military jobs, police, and agreeableness is good in health care.

So we know that conscientiousness is great across time and it really predicts work outcomes. But personality doesn't change much over time. They kind of use a term called glacier to explain how personality changes because it's just a slow moving thing over time and we don't really know why it changes. There's life experiences like graduation, first jobs, retirement, things like that will slowly change our own personality. So like for example, getting married and having a child slightly, very slightly lowers our extroversion rate.

So our, you know, the feeling to need to go and be social, get outdoors, do that kind of stuff very slowly. I mean, very small decrease in that. So we don't really know why personality changes across your life, but we do know that it does change. So a research done in 2006, they looked at ages 10 to 100 and they found that personality has some changes. Conscientiousness increases, emotional stability increases, and agreeableness changes as well. They all increase. And so conscientiousness, you know, being on time, following a calendar, emotional stability, regulating yourself, not having, you know, emotional outbursts, stuff like that.

And then agreeableness, which is just perspective taking. Looking at other ideas, this is called the maturity principle. So it kind of makes sense. Following rules, regulating yourself and agreeing with people is called the maturity principle. And that's shown to increase over time. But mainly ages 22 to 30, there's about a 25% to 35% increase in this maturity principle just from those ages and Those eight years. So over time though, conscientiousness, so this is kind of following rules. It increases until age 30, kind of plateaus, doesn't really change and then after age 70 it begins to drop more.

And then by 80 you're about equal with adolescents about when you're adolescent, the conscientiousness is about equal there. Agreeableness increases until you're 30 and then remains stable and decreases a little bit after 70. And then extroversion doesn't change much over time as well as openness increases until about 20 and then decreases after that. So kind of interesting patterns that you can probably picture in your head and see in real life how those play out, especially with the maturity principle.

Getting to your first job, having to follow more rules, follow a calendar, having more responsibilities, leads to, might lead to more personality changes to fit that. So one. So while we can't really go out there and change our personality, what we can change is emotional stability. That was the only personality trait that can really be changed over time through our, our willpower. And I've talked about before in other platforms and I think on here that IQ is relatively stable. That's something we can't change.

But in the workforce and work out in life outcomes, it's kind of seen as the gate. Having an IQ, it's around 70 can get you through the door, but it doesn't do much afterwards. What does the work afterwards is that emotional intelligence. So the cognitive IQ gets you through the door, but once you're pretty at an average rate of iq, what really is a difference maker's emotional intelligence? And this is what we can really change in our lifetime. So this is taking programs like stress management and emotion regulation work that can really change over time that we can really improve our personality.

So just saying. Recap. Personality is mostly set by age 30. Dramatic shifts from 22 to 30 and then after that is incredibly slow. So what can we take away from this is that you know, when you're 22 to 30, this is your time that you can really work on your personality. Changing habits, changing kind of how, you know, the maturity principle. But then after 30, it's more of learning to how to leverage those existing traits, how to use your strengths and you know, use your strengths to overcome your weaknesses and really know your personality from there because they're relatively stable after 30.

So that's a huge deep dive into personality over time and, and how it changes slightly. But yeah, I think it's really interesting on how that moves and it's very practical and you kind of can see that over time with the maturity principle 22 to 30 really increasing. And that makes sense. At least I've seen in people. So, yeah, that's what I've got today. I'll speak wonder Music, melancholy, contemplative. Sounds like. Like a great morning right there. But to. To really think about music melancholy and contemplative.

Sounds like a Bob Dylan kind of morning to me. But yeah. So that's all I've got today. I hope you have a good rest of your Monday and I'll see you next Monday. We have Nick Hansen at 2 with take walk with Nick, but that's all I got today. So have a good rest of your Monday. Thank you. Cadre.