
Episode #3
Does your Personality decide your health?
<p>Can personality affect health? The short answer is yes, but it’s not the whole story or the most interesting part.</p><p>Of the five major personality traits, conscientiousness (being organised, disciplined and able to follow through) predicts health more consistently than any other. Not optimism, not resilience, not being a positive person. It works for an unglamorous reason: conscientious people are slightly more likely to actually do the things that protect health, and then do them again tomorrow. Two studies illustrate the case, including one of nearly half a million people in which low conscientiousness predicted poorer he...



