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While there is a correspondence, J/P is not Conscientiousness. Correspondence is not the same as firm overlap, you can be a P with conscientiousness. I personally consider myself self-motivated and diligent, and I prefer participating in tasks which I consider productive, I struggle to engage in strictly entertaining activities for very long...but I am conscientious in a less structured way than what your typical "J" would be. Personally, I find that my ADD is more limiting than P in that. Big 5 has a limiting definition of Conscientiousness...
...you can be conscientious and spontaneous simultaneously, it just depends upon which types of tasks you engage in. In something like college, that planning and scheduling is required more...it's not the case in everything. A paramedic team responding to emergencies is a situation in which what I'm trying to explain is exemplified. There is the foundational preparation or planning of what to do in situations, but it is used in a way that is spontaneous and adaptive as opposed to structured, organized, or planned. You literally cannot plan in that, you don't even know what to expect a lot of times. Take that and expand it into an overall underlying concept that can be applied to more situations than that.
The six facets of Conscientiousness are:
- Competence
- Order
- Dutifulness
- Achievement Striving
- Self-Discipline
- Deliberation
In my case, I'm higher on Competence and Deliberation, so-so on Order and Dutifulness, and Self-Discipline is my Achilles' heel - although even that's not too low, because I abstain completely from drugs and alcohol. Achievement Striving is a fuzzy grey area which depends on how an achievement is defined. If we think of it based on how society defines achievement, then I would be rock bottom because I don't care about owning an expensive car or house, having a career that pays a six-digit salary, or settling down with a partner and kids. My sense of accomplishment is more personal than that.
I've noticed a change in priorities as of late. In my youth, I was content to spend hours upon hours entertaining myself with leisure activities. That's not to say I no longer care for recreation, but the times I've been most satisfied have been those times when I've solved a problem or completed a project, while recreation serves mainly to provide a breather from work. Still, this change has not made it easier to mould myself to a schedule. I'm not very good at estimating completion times because I work in bursts of inspiration. So, I could spend hours tooling around with something, and then hit upon something and all this productivity comes flooding through.