Character, Common Sense, and Intellect

Character, Common Sense and Intellect Factors in Achievement

By Rom Antony Day,

I wrote this article especially for my teenage daughter [Name omitted to protect and preserve her privacy as American].

Fifth Edition, Monday, January 21, 2008

Three Individual Achievement Traits or learned behaviors if not traits are, according to The American Engineer in American Management and Organizational Development Science and founding father of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the United States Of America -- Frederick W. Taylor--are:

1) Character

2) Common Sense, and

3)* Intellect

Intellect without character Taylor pointed out makes many people end up in the jail/prison [i.e. the joint] (Frederick W. Taylor Father of Scientific Management by Frank Barkley Copley, Volume II, 1923 and reprinted 1969; library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 68-55515).

And character without common sense or without intellect, I would add, can become Puritanism or in other words just opinions without factual rational backing. It can become expecting people to believe anything just because some body says it. It can become de-individuation a concept in Group Psychology which leads to cults where the individual looses his or her individuality. You shall remedy it (group-think) by educating the group about group-think and thereby breaking it up (Social Psychology by David G. Myers, Third Edition; Copy Right 1990; page 292 to 298). Group-think is the opposite of the good all American value of Individuality. The way to address de-individuation is to break group-think by making people aware of it. And letting the group know that it is perfectly fine and totally American to state a dissenting opinion about whatever without caving-in under political or peer-pressure.

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Rom Antony Day, B.A. Industrial and Organizational Psychology with Business Administration Minor focused on Marketing Administration, 1994, San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Francisco, California, U S A