Twenty thousand siblings across three countries later, the “bossy firstborn, easygoing baby of the family” story doesn’t hold up — birth order changes almost nothing measurable about your personality
People told to punch a bag while thinking about who made them angry ended up angrier than people told to do nothing at all — sitting still beat “healthy venting” outright, in the same experiment, on the same scale
Twenty thousand siblings across three countries later, the “bossy firstborn, easygoing baby of the family” story doesn’t hold up — birth order changes almost nothing measurable about your personality
People told to punch a bag while thinking about who made them angry ended up angrier than people told to do nothing at all — sitting still beat “healthy venting” outright, in the same experiment, on the same scale
The generation everyone calls the most narcissistic in history is, according to 546,225 people tested across four decades, measurably the least narcissistic in 40 years — and the decline got steeper after the 2008 financial crisis, not slower
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Analytical skills, and the quiet habits that sharpen them
