What Is My Personality Essay

After searching through numerous pictures between the years of 2000 and 2003, I can conclude that my personality has not changed much since then. My parents always told me that I was a character because I would always be cracking jokes or I would be smiling and it would spread to everyone around me. To this day, I consider myself an optimistic individual. I like to see the good in everyone and every situation that I encounter. This was definitely easier when I was younger and the only person who I thought was mean was the principal at my elementary school. Growing up as an optimistic person has its challenges. I tend to find myself trusting people that I should not and hanging out with people who put me in danger. Now that I am older and …show more content…
I look through my pictures over the past 3 years and I am still making silly faces or smiling ear to ear. I do not think my personality has changed that much throughout the years but I also have not been through any serious traumatic events and my parents are still together which I think definitely has an impact on one’s personality. When I was younger I always found myself falling in love with the idea of traveling and flying airplanes and here I am at the age of 20 still obsessing over traveling different countries and beginning my career as a pilot. My beliefs line up with the trait approach that states that personality traits are stable through the majority of an individual’s life (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). I also think that that situation approach matches up with a lot of people who have had certain situations that they have to adjust to (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). This is also because I have not gone through any traumatic events or life changing situations that alter my personality. Although this is how I feel about my personality, this is not exactly how I feel from an athlete’s point of …show more content…
One reason is so they know how that athlete will react in certain circumstances. In my situation, my coach knew what happened and was able to understand why I started performing differently on the field and even off the field. A coach should understand their athlete’s personality structure. This structure includes psychological core, typical responses and role-related behavior (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). When a coach can understand more than just the athlete’s role-related behavior, the effectiveness tends to increase and the coach can get a better understanding of who the athlete really is (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). This also helps let the coach understand what makes the “athlete tick” or what makes the athlete break down (Weinberg & Gould,