- Khayam Arif
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Are we born with a certain personality type or our experiences shape our personality?
today my teacher was telling we all have a personality type,..some are leaders , some are thinkers ,some are politicians.He was also giving reference of some research on how to judge you personality.
Advice he gave was find your personality type and do what is coherent with your personality.
But my objection was there is no such thing as "personality type" your experiences shape tour personality. Knowing it will only limit your capabilities..need your opinion
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Pradee Happy
Both genes and environment impacts the choices we make, which makes us =)
santiago rodriguez
perception is tricky. One could argue that the very perception of things is great part of a personality and I couldn't say it's not, cuz it is, but it seems that since the very start we have our very own perception quite different from others
Mary M. 50+
I think our personalities may evolve over time as we undergo self-examination and meditation, as well as the lessons we learn throughout life.
For example, I know someone who was very very shy when young, with low self-esteem. But, in college, with the help of friends, he discovered that it is not so hard to be social. He started to act like those around him who conversed with ease, and found it empowering to initiate conversations and laugh out loud at funny things without fear of rejection or tease.
Personalities evolve I feel, but we have to be willing participants.
Some people are happy their entire life with how they are.....and never change.....others are always reinventing themselves.
Hmm....nice question. All the previous contributions were very interesting to read.
Beste Arslan
Orlando Hawkins 20+
Adriaan Braam 20+
Our plate is loaded with many hereditary tendencies that we can decide to use or change. We are never held accountable for what is passed on to us but only for what we make our own (in freedom).
But from birth to eternity we are influenced by our environment in shaping our personality. Often we have talents that can make our lives greater, if we use them. The choice is ours.
Many also have very unfortunate and severe battles to 'brake the cycle' and still become a better person.
Frans Kellner 100+
Khayam Arif
no matter what I do ,I cant break those boundaries?
What if my passions goes against it?
Kien Bui 500+
We often hear people refer to Type A and Type B personalities. Type A refers to people involved in never-ending struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time while Type B refers to those who tend to be easygoing, relaxed, patient... But do we only possess 01, and only one, type of personality for every circumstance? I don't think so.
So then do we have multiple personalities? Maybe. Probably yes.
Did we have a personality when we were a kid? Probably so.
Do we have possess a particular personality, among others, in a particular circumstance now as we have grown up? Yes.
Is it the same as our childhood personality? Probably not.
That is, we are born with some particular personalities but our experiences growing up shape them dramatically and this process continues until we die.
Christophe Cop 500+
We have genetic predispositions, and we have neural plasticity.
Our environment shapes us, but as it cannot let us produce wings, it cannot change some of our personality traits either.
Anyway, personality research is most often measured in underlying dimensions that do not really care about the nature/nurture part of personality. So the personality traits we measure have both components...
Fritzie Reisner 100+
This is the sort of question that is not rightly a matter for taste or opinion but one that can be measured empirically and has been by researchers in the field of psychology.
Sharon McCann 10+