In the 1900s, personality theorists–in particular, Freud, Jung, Adler, Erikson, Allport, Cattell & Eysenk, Skinner, Bandura and Mischel, Rogers and Maslow, and May–did research and experimentation to understand human personality and made some insightful discoveries that give different lenses, or perspectives, through which people can understand themselves and their behavior. This paper identifies a specific personal characteristic (i.e., a behavior or mental process) of mine that I believe sets me apart from the majority of other people and then, through the viewpoint of each theorist mentioned above, explains how I acquired or maintained it. The special behavior is my tendency to get restless (antsy, hyper) and unable to relax for very
