The One with the Stolen Personality What exactly is a personality? A personality is a combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Not one person has their own personality, because when we are born, we’re just like a blank canvas that an artist uses to make it into a masterpiece. A personality is something that everybody possesses but we didn’t create it on our own; it was more influenced by our friends, family, or any other thing that surrounds us. We own a personality, but at the same time, it isn’t our own. Our personality isn’t made up just like that; it comes from how others act, what we listen to or what we see happening around us. There are three different ways one’s personality comes
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In 370 B.C.E, Hippocrates came up with a theory called the Four Humors (made up of sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic) believing that our personalities are influenced by humoral balances. Truth be told, what we see when we are young is how we believe that is the way we should be like. Back then, an Ancient Greek named Plato proposed four groupings (artistic, sensible, intuitive, and reasoning) and Aristotle hypothesized four factors (iconic i.e. artistic, pistic i.e. common-sense, noetic i.e. intuition, and dianoetic i.e. logic). These two Ancient Greeks have been researching since the 4th century on how a personality has come to …show more content…
Recent studies show that musical preference may show the listener’s personality, and in the end, affect the listener’s personality. The type of music we listen to is either different from when our parents listened to music or it’s the same. There are millions of people who listen to heavy metal, pop, rock, R&B, classic, Christian, Indie, etc. All these genres of music influence us in some way, even if we don’t actually realize it. For example, if you listen to heavy metal, people say you have a personality of someone who doesn’t care what anyone else says, you don’t take anything from anybody. On one hand, it’s seen as you have good taste in music, but on the other hand, you are seen as a rude, insane type of person. It doesn’t really matter what everyone else says about your personality, it’s your personality, not
In 370 B.C.E, Hippocrates came up with a theory called the Four Humors (made up of sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic) believing that our personalities are influenced by humoral balances. Truth be told, what we see when we are young is how we believe that is the way we should be like. Back then, an Ancient Greek named Plato proposed four groupings (artistic, sensible, intuitive, and reasoning) and Aristotle hypothesized four factors (iconic i.e. artistic, pistic i.e. common-sense, noetic i.e. intuition, and dianoetic i.e. logic). These two Ancient Greeks have been researching since the 4th century on how a personality has come to …show more content…
Recent studies show that musical preference may show the listener’s personality, and in the end, affect the listener’s personality. The type of music we listen to is either different from when our parents listened to music or it’s the same. There are millions of people who listen to heavy metal, pop, rock, R&B, classic, Christian, Indie, etc. All these genres of music influence us in some way, even if we don’t actually realize it. For example, if you listen to heavy metal, people say you have a personality of someone who doesn’t care what anyone else says, you don’t take anything from anybody. On one hand, it’s seen as you have good taste in music, but on the other hand, you are seen as a rude, insane type of person. It doesn’t really matter what everyone else says about your personality, it’s your personality, not