2x2 idea: weird/normal, optimist/pessimist.
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Personality-wise my priors are that scientific productivity tends to occur among people who are BOTH open (so they see many "weirdly diverse" things) AND conscientious (so theoretical "abnormalities" worthy of study jump out from the orderly background).
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I think the kind of conscientiousness that makes you excel at science is very Normal Pessimist, and the kind of creativity that makes you excel is Weird Optimist. Normal Optimism helps with more political or money-related achievements.
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