When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Your own physical reflecting. But does that tells you who you really are? Does it tells you how others may perceive you as a person? Do you really know who you are? Do you know how your personal behavior was established in the first place? Yes, how did you, as a personality, develop?
When you pause to analyze all the elements that shaped your personality, you may notice that many influences have been imposed on you - either by other persons or by other factors. During our early formative years, most of us had relatively little to do with establishing our own habits and ways. So let us look at some of these personality - shaping influences that were imposed on you - some of them long before your own behavior.
Genetics Plays A Big Part
How much has genetics affected you? The DNA blueprint, found in the chromosomes that transmit hereditary characteristics, carries descriptions and coded instructions for each person's development. So how much of your individual behavior is influenced genetically? It seems that there are still difficulty in proving any definite link between genes and personality. However, there are some approaches that appear to have merit. For example, a number of your inherited traits do have an immediate bearing on your behavior. Thus, some people inherit subdued dispositions, while others are naturally more outgoing.
A pregnant woman can benefit or impair her unborn child by her own actions, thoughts, and feelings. Just how much peace or irritation was thrust upon you while you were in your mother's womb? How much did you learn from your parent's tone voice, the music they listened to? How much were you affected by the food your mother ate? In the event she drunk alcohol or took drugs, how much was she affected by them? By the time you were born, many of your propensities were set and perhaps are difficult to change.
What About Diet, Allergies, Environment?
As you grew into childhood, certain substances in your food may have had an effect on your behavior. Sweeteners, artificial coloring and preservatives - all can exert an unseen influence on behavior. Hyperactivity, increased tension, irritability, nerve pain, and immoderate and uncontrolled actions are just some of the results. Pollution from automobile exhaust fumes, industrial emissions, and other poisons in the environment also shape behavior. Or, on a personal level, you may have no adverse effect on those around you.
In addition to these influences, your parents behavior, their likes and dislikes as well as their prejudices that you have lived with from infancy, have had an effect on you and have shaped your personality to some degree. The result is that many of your ways and your general outlook on life are simply a reflection of theirs. You tend to get upset at things that upset them. You are inclined to tolerate things that they tolerated. And you rarely notice that you copy their behavior until someone tells you that you are acting just like your father or mother. Their financial and social affection also affects you, as your neighborhood and school environment also does affects you. Your friends and associates also have had a big influence on you too. Perhaps a bad accident to you or to a close friend, some local disaster, or even troubling world events have affected you. Or it could be that some tragedy, such as a divorce or a serious illness, has left a scar on your personality.
Knowing What You Can Do Best
Well, this is not easy to predict as it seems. Before you can actually know what you can do and what you will love to do, you probably need to spread yourself everywhere. Maybe you can consider these situations.
1. Lawyer: you can take the side of your sibling, defending him and proving him right in a situation even though you weren't a witness.
2. Doctor: try predicting the sickness of your relatives and providing some drug suggestions. If the doctor confirms it, then you are on the way.
3. Teacher: try making your sibling understand topics he is finding difficulty to grab. etc
Try spreading yourself everywhere. When doing this, note the one you really enjoy doing and was a piece of cake to you.
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