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Human nature can be changed?

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  • 14-02-2010 2:48am
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    leom
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    Folks,
    Do you think, Personality can be changed ?- what ever we learnt in first few years- we follow that script for the rest of our lives!! Can we really change our selves completely?
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    JuliusCaesar
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    What do you mean by 'human nature'? Do you mean personality? or what?


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    leom
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭leom


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    What do you mean by 'human nature'? Do you mean personality? or what?

    Yes Personality


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    Red Hand
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    leom wrote: »
    Yes Personality

    Personality and your nature is fluid. You were a different person seven years ago, literally. Atom by atom, molecule by molecule, cell by cell, you have been changed.

    Likewise, your personality will change over time. If environment is a deciding factor in shaping you, your memory and experience of that environment will change.

    Lets say if you as you are now and a version of you that was around 10 years ago were to meet today-would you be friends with the person you were 10 years ago if you met them? Would you even be able to relate to them, even though you experienced the mind-set they are experiencing?


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    Kevster
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    Jeremiah 33 3 wrote: »
    Personality and your nature is fluid. You were a different person seven years ago, literally. Atom by atom, molecule by molecule, cell by cell, you have been changed.
    ...except for cardiac muscle. That is never renewed, as far as I know. My apologies for having to be pedantic. To the OP: personality can change easily. Whilst things which happen in our youth can greatly affect the adult that we become, it's never the case that such things are 'set' in childhood, such that we are unable to change them.

    Kevin


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    hotspur
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    The idea that a person is physically a completely different person every X number of years is indeed not true, but for far more reasons than just cardiac muscles.


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    leom
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭leom


    Jeremiah 33 3 wrote: »
    Personality and your nature is fluid. You were a different person seven years ago, literally. Atom by atom, molecule by molecule, cell by cell, you have been changed.

    Likewise, your personality will change over time. If environment is a deciding factor in shaping you, your memory and experience of that environment will change.

    Lets say if you as you are now and a version of you that was around 10 years ago were to meet today-would you be friends with the person you were 10 years ago if you met them? Would you even be able to relate to them, even though you experienced the mind-set they are experiencing?
    Kevster wrote: »
    ...except for cardiac muscle. That is never renewed, as far as I know. My apologies for having to be pedantic. To the OP: personality can change easily. Whilst things which happen in our youth can greatly affect the adult that we become, it's never the case that such things are 'set' in childhood, such that we are unable to change them.

    Kevin

    So suppose, if some one is shy or introvert and it is due to childhood traumas - can s/he becomes completely free of those deeply rooted unconscious traits. I think people carry their traits for the rest of their lives - am i wrong?


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    Kevster
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    You're wrong, because I am living proof that people change.


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    JuliusCaesar
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    @leom - Yes but they can be managed or modified....not a radical personality transplant, but adaptive changes can be brought about.


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