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&lt;p&gt;If your childhood was anything like mine, you spent most of it enduring a variety of methods aimed at coaxing out the kinds of behaviors that are commonly held to make one a responsible adult: abiding by the law, being polite, and paying attention when others are speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But maybe I should have worked a little harder on getting into trouble: as reported by the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt;, a recent study found that &quot;rule-breaking, defiant kids often end up richer than their more responsible peers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Want proof? Check out the WSJ video here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;288&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/iframe.html?guid=EFF323BE-1E25-4576-902C-043B0BAA1B5C&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I was never the best-behaved kid out there, I can&#39;t honestly look back and say that I&#39;d recognize myself as being overly endowed with traits like &quot;rule-breaking, inattentiveness and impatience.&quot; Which, it turns out, is a shame—according to the study those are the &quot;best non-cognitive predictors of higher income.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worse still: while I wasn&#39;t completely unruly, I also wasn&#39;t the kind of kid who would have done well on another famed predictor of success—the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;marshmallow experiment&lt;/a&gt;—which found a correlation between a child&#39;s ability to delay gratification and their relative success as an adult.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surely it&#39;s only a matter of time before employers start asking for kindergarten report cards along with your college transcripts. In the meantime, I&#39;m off to figure out how to get my own kids to start breaking rules without making it seem like, y&#39;know, it&#39;s a rule.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/job-search/are-the-class-of-2016-prepared-for-reality/&quot;&gt;Is the Class of 2016 Prepared for Reality?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/interviewing/how-to-have-better-conversations/&quot;&gt;How to Have Better Conversations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/workplace-issues/6-negative-actions-that-might-be-good-for-your-career/&quot;&gt;6 &#39;Negative&#39; Actions That Might Be Good for Your Career&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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