Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
by CuriouslyC on Saturday June 25, 2016 @01:20PM
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I used that as an example because it's so radical as to be irrefutable, and pretty amusing. Massive personality change does not require traumatic brain injury.
Just because something is really hard does not mean it is not of much interest theoretically or practically. Everything that is meaningful in human endeavor has been "really hard."
I think that it is actually really important to study and understand personality change. Frankly, a lot of people have negative, (self)destructive personalities, and they would be much better served with positive, constructive personalities. Maybe if we understand how people change, we could come up with a consistent, efficient method to help those people, rather than shrugging and saying "haters gonna hate."
Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
by mike4ty4 on Friday July 01, 2016 @06:28AM
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The $6m question is, is willpower itself limited by genetics? What happens then, if the ability to exert the hard effort to change the personality is itself genetically limited?
Just because something is really hard does not mean it is not of much interest theoretically or practically. Everything that is meaningful in human endeavor has been "really hard."
I think that it is actually really important to study and understand personality change. Frankly, a lot of people have negative, (self)destructive personalities, and they would be much better served with positive, constructive personalities. Maybe if we understand how people change, we could come up with a consistent, efficient method to help those people, rather than shrugging and saying "haters gonna hate."