By Brian R. Little
In Jan I wrote...
A deep discussion of personality theory, and how much 'we' shape our lives. What makes a hardy person? A creative person? A proactive person? I must read this again in a year.
Five months later while perusing through the new reads section of the library, I came upon this book again. I didn't remember it though. It looked interesting, so I checked it out.
I got Deja vu reading the first chapter. I had a feeling of Presque vu, I looked this book up in the blog, and found, that yes, yes I had read this book before.
This book is hard for me to summarize. Perhaps what I want to take away is that, of course we have our personality traits. We may be extraverts, or open to new experiences, or consciences, or whatever. Beyond all that, we are flexible. We can learn. We can grow. An introvert can act extroverted for a while. There my be a cost to this, but there is no harm. You can choose your response, especially if you are aware of who you are.
So, have a dialog with yourself. Reflect on yourself. Know yourself. Beaware than your default responses are not all that you are capable of.
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