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The Influence of Individual
Personality Features on
Human Performance in Work,
Learning, and Athletic Activity
Fred Voskoboynikov
INTRODUCTION
There are two ways to ensuring the effectiveness of human performance. One is by professional
selection, the so-called “screening out” of individuals with specic attributes. The other one is
individual training methods directed toward the formation of individual strategies of activity based
on features of personality of the individual in the process of adaptation to the objective require-
ments of activity. While in the West, the selection method was used more intensive, in the former
Soviet Union, the ...