The Proactive Personality and Antifragility

In this episode, hosts Dr. Holton and Dr. Wright discuss key insights from Brendan Markey-Towler's seminal 2018 paper on what he describes as the "proactive personality" and its relationship to antifragility.

Key takeaways include:

-What a proactive personality is

-The role of a growth mindset in fostering antifragility

-How a scientific approach to knowledge acquisition can enhance adaptability

-The significance of courage and distress tolerance in facing challenges This episode also connects these ideas to the Big Five personality traits, examining how openness, assertiveness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism relate to antifragility.

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