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Personality Development
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Personality is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others. Or
Personality is generally defined as the deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of
thought, feeling and behavior. In fact, when one refers to personality, it generally implies to all
what is unique about an individual, the characteristics that makes one stand out in a crowd.
Personalities is the sum total of individual’s Psychological traits, characteristics, motives, habits,
attitudes, beliefs and outlooks.
Personality determinants :
Heredity : Heredity refers to those factors that were determined at conception. Physical
structure, facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, muscle composition and reflexes, energy
level, and biological rhythms are characteristics that are generally considered to be either
completely or substantially influenced by who your parents were, that is by their biological,
physiological and inherent psychological make up.
Environment : The environmental factors that exert pressures on our personality formation are
the culture in which we are raised, our early conditioning, the norms among our family, friends
and social groups, and other influences that we experience. The environment to which we are
exposed plays a substantial role in shaping our personalities.
Situation : A third factor, the situation, influences the effects of heredity and environment on
personality. An individual’s personality although generally stable and consistent, does change in
different situations. The varying demand of different situation calls forth different aspects of
one’s personality. We should not therefore look upon personality patterns in isolation.
DEVELOPING POSITIVE PERSONALITY
1. Subconscious Programming :
Most of us sometimes get programmed / conditioned by a wrong messages that “ donot do that”,
“don’t take the risk”, “you can not do that” you are not good in …and so on…..
You can imagine the bad effect such message can have on any person.
Fig- I : Subconscious Mind Programming
Our Conscious Mind is like a watch man. And the Subconscious Mind is a store of all the
previously programmed or conditioned information / knowledge/ believes. Now programming

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personality means putting positive believes/ information into the store with out the knowledge of
the watchman (conscious mind).
Suppose you tell yourself that “you are good at Public Speaking”. And the store has stored based
on peoples comments and experience that “you are poor in communication” “you can not speak
well in public”, “you don’t have an impressive body language” …..
The watch man sees your sentence and compares it with the knowledge in its store and says “this
information is wrong”. The watchman throws the new information away. He does not allow the
new positive information into the store. This is the fundamental difficulty in changing
personality & behavior of a person.
Now the question is how and when we could programme our mind for positive personality trait
with out the obstruction of watchman…
The answer is we can programme our mind for positive personality traits during the Twilight
period just before sleeping and just before waking up. This is the time when the conscious
mind is active enough to generate the positive traits for entering into store but inactive to
judge/compare and will not obstruct to the positive traits to enter into the subconscious
store house.
2. Reinforced Programming / Conscious Programming :
Autosuggestion and Repetition of the positive traits despite negative response from comparison
with the store house also gives success in programming for personality traits.
Auto-suggestion is a statement made in the present tense, of the kind of person you want to be.
Auto-suggestion are like a commercial about “Super You”, or “Future Super You” for yourself
what you want to be or achieve. They influence both your conscious and subconscious mind in
the long run shaping your personality and attitude.
Auto-suggestions are the conscious way to programme the subconscious mind for positive traits.
It is the effective method of voluntary development of positive traits and attitudes.
Auto-suggestion should be mixed with emotions. All such reinforced / conscious programming
which have been emotionalized (giving feeling) and mixed with applied faith, begin immediately
to translate themselves into physical or real equivalent.
Auto-suggestive thoughts which are mixed with any of the feeling of emotions constitute a
“psycho-magnetic” force which attracts other similar or related thoughts.
Our subconscious mind resembling a fertile garden spot, in which weeds will grow in abundance
if you the seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein. Auto-suggestion is the agency of
control through which an individual can voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of
creative/ positive nature or by neglect permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way
into the rich garden of mind. So Caution should be taken while programming your mind for
positive traits only.
3. Defensive Approach :
One of this type of approach is protest or deny the negative traits at it’s very beginning of the
entering in the subconscious store. And the second is to consciously avoid this type of
environment or situation. In real life situation it is very difficult because it may lead to
confrontation and argument or Inaction.

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Personality Development PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT ? Personality is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others. Or Personality is generally defined as the deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of thought, feeling and behavior. In fact, when one refers to personality, it generally implies to all what is unique about an individual, the characteristics that makes one stand out in a crowd. Personalities is the sum total of individual's Psychological traits, characteristics, motives, habits, attitudes, beliefs and outlooks. Personality determinants : Heredity : Heredity refers to those factors that were determined at conception. Physical structure, facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, muscle composition and reflexes, energy level, and biological rhythms are characteristics that are generally considered to be either completely or substantially influenced by who your parents were, that is by their biological, physiological and inherent psychological make up. Environment : The environmental factors that exert pressures on our personality formation are the culture in which we are raised, our early conditioning, the norms among our family, friends and social groups, and other influences that we experience. The environment to which we are exposed plays a substantial role in shaping our personalities. Situation : A third factor, the situation, influences the effects of heredity and environment on personality. An individual's perso ...
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