Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
by mike4ty4 on Friday July 01, 2016 @06:26AM
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Why should "introversion" be changed or punished, necessarily? Developing intellect is something to be encouraged, but I don't understand the anti-introversion bias in your post.
And I suspect that the genetics does also set a limit as to how far one can bend, too. This too, will vary between persons.
On the other hand, when a child displays an initial dislike for like Taylor Swift, her friends might say "you're crazy, Taylor Swift is awesome."
It's all just neural networks being reinforced or inhibited, the primary contribution of genetics is the default state of the network. In the case "fixed" personality characteristics, our culture is to reinforce the default networks, while for things we view as mutable, we have no qualms about training away default behavior.