How do we discuss with students about positive personality traits and their relationships with success and achievement?

With awareness and thought, students can work to develop positive personality traits. Concrete examples provide a reference point for discussions of personality traits and their impact on success, and discussions centered on the examples are the mechanisms we can use in our attempts to increase students' awareness and understanding. For example, disagreeable people aren't "stuck" with being disagreeable forever. Realising that agreeableness can lead to improved social relationships, they can try to develop this desirable trait. Further, if students understand that openness and conscientiousness are associated with academic success, there also more likely to attempt to develop these characteristics. Again, we have nothing to lose in making our students aware of desirable personality traits and attempting to help them understand how these traits link to academic and social success.