Valiante: Personality and IQ are largely fixed, while discipline is malleable
Dr. Gio Valiante · Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience · Oct 31, 2023 · at 20:46
Performance psychologist Dr. Gio Valiante explains the distinction between fixed biological traits and malleable psychological capacities like discipline.
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“So we look at fixed traits like personality, by and large, you're not changing personality. Things like IQ. I mean, they shift over time. They tend to gradually Move in a direction consistent with, you know, with family sort of IQ, a fixed trait like IQ. Things like memory. You can improve your memory marginally, but like things like that tend to have genetic components. But where we looked at variable and malleable things, things like discipline.”
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