A Personality Trait related to Motivation and Success

According to the OCEAN theory, personality is divided into five important factors, also called "The Big Five personality traits", these are: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. If we talk about motivation and success I think that the main personality behind these self-regulatory skills is conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is the state or quality of awareness, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Consciousness enclosed the following characteristics: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. When we are motivated we engage in a task for the rewards outside of the task for example good grades and money. Consciousness involved important cognitive skills such of awareness and alertness. Is this state of mind that gives us the desire of doing certain things because we know that as a consequences it will benefit us. An example of this is a good academic performance. A good academic standing is a product are the products of cognitive capabilities implemented throughout motivational and other self-regulatory skills, in English! its a product of our efforts because we know that it will be rewarded.

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