off-topic Do people truly change their personality over time?

[Harsh World]

I've been thinking a lot about whether people truly change their personality over time or if they merely adapt to different situations and environments around them to reflect different characteristics.

Can someone who's naturally impatient ever really become a patient person, or are they just better at hiding their impatience? I'm curious about what others believe. Are our core traits fixed, or can we genuinely change ourselves?

Over time and in different relationships, have you noticed real change in yourself or someone else?

I believe that your personality never really changes, but you adapt to the circumstances that you're in. If you're impatient, you'll always be impatient. However, if you are at a long funeral, you're not going to show signs of that, rather sit back and conform to the mourning around you.

 

[Aufscherin]

Very good question and a real brain teaser. My view is that we stay the same but develop our personalities in a more intense way over time. I am very assertive these days but always was to a point just not as much as now. See my avatar, not very diplomatic and friendly looking right? Now that I feel more at ease here I am going to change it to better reflect how I feel here. An evolution of sorts just like with our personalities.

 

[Harsh World]

My view is that we stay the same but develop our personalities in a more intense way over time.

Or is it just being able to control it and let each personality out at the right time?

Now that I feel more at ease

Glad you feel that way.

 

[Harsh World]

Now that I feel more at ease here I am going to change it to better reflect how I feel here.

Perhaps you can buy the Halo of Righteousness (Ṩ500) as you can afford it, and it now better reflects you over the Red Ring of Fire.

 

[Aufscherin]

^^^

 

[Harsh World]

^^^

Or you can buy it and gift it to me and I'll gift you the Red Ring?

 

[Bawse]

I think when you're younger you go through different personalities, but as you get older your personality stays pretty much the same.

 

[Harsh World]

I think when you're younger you go through different personalities, but as you get older your personality stays pretty much the same.

Stays the same or do you learn how to control what was once considered "childish behavior" to you now?