You Can Change Your Personality

Re:You Can Change Your Personality by Broken_Hippo on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:43AM (#13454604)

I have read about this a few times. I think the main difference is in what the folks are changing: They are changing habits and lifestyle - their input - rather than changing their base personality - their output. Naturally with different input they act differently: Same for dropping a drug that affects the way you act.

And I do somewhat understand - I changed a lot of things when I moved overseas. I likely seem different: But I'm also happier and have a different knowledge base than I did a few years ago. People's expectations of me changed as well: As soon as people realize I'm not Norwegian (the English accent gives me away), it is OK if I break some social norms - those things that I had trouble grasping anyway.

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Re:You Can Change Your Personality by Nomentatus on Sunday January 22, 2017 @10:32PM (#13459555)

I was thinking just this, too; and then fipped my opinion a few seconds ago. What I was thinking at first was "I just changed my tactics, that's all." But of course, that's what others see as our personality; our tactics. Not just our typical tactics, that is; but also what we revert to when pressed. I think I changed both, so I'm not who I was. I seem the same to me, of course... but so what. I still feeling twenty inside sometimes, or younger but that doesn't mean I am - I certainly ain't.

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Re:You Can Change Your Personality by johnchristopher on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#13456358)

We are, if anything, creatures of habit. Drawn to the safety and the comfort of the similar.

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Re:You Can Change Your Personality by Nomentatus on Sunday January 22, 2017 @10:34PM (#13459561)

Meditation is one good way to break this. Rubbing your nose endlessly in your own thoughtless patterns can be bloody embarrassing. Certainly life-changing.

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