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Passion. Hard work. Two personality-traits largely influenced by genetics. Try again.


I'm interested to see if you have any links to studies/research that back this up.

The reason I ask is that I personally find I am passionate/hardworking for certain things but for others I'm completely disinterested/lazy.

Likewise I have seen other people who are typically lazy and not hardworking, but get them on the one thing they are interested in (e.g. a specific sport) and they can quote match and player statistics stretching back decades. It's like they have this amazing ability but they've only applied it to a relatively useless part of their life (I say relatively useless because if they'd applied themselves with the same fervour to their work they'd have a much better quality of life).

I'm not sure how that connects that with genetic personality traits.


Here is one:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014299900...

If you want more:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=personality+genetics+pubmed

Scientists are still primitive in the understanding of the human brain, but as you can see, one factor in your behavior and personality (ie. motivation, persistence, ease-of-anger, compulsion, etc) is the complex relationship between neurotransmitters and their receptors (and millions of other factors of which we have no clue) These relationships are largely genetic, they are inherited to us.

I have something to add of my own: Every characteristic about us, every move or action that we make, has a relationship (or is a byproduct) of some sort of gene(s) working together. You can even call it FATE if you want.


> You can even call it FATE if you want.

Luck




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