A personality is a person who has a set of socially significant qualities and is capable of various types of conscious activity. This is our social essence and the main subject of social relations.
When a person has a personality
It is generally accepted that the development of a child as a person begins at the age of two or three. This is correct if we keep in mind the appearance of purely external behavioral signs of personal individuality. They really appear in a child only in the third year of life.
What makes up a personality
Personality arises as a result of the hierarchization of the system of activities; this is not a given, but a quality. Separate activities are linked into "knots", as a result of which a new level of consciousness is formed - the consciousness of the individual.
Each person has the prerequisites for development, initially the personality develops through the knowledge of the surrounding reality, in childhood. Adults are the first to influence. That is, education is an important component of personality development.
Comprehensive new research provides evidence that different personality traits and cognitive abilities are linked. This means that if someone performs well on a particular cognitive task, it can provide clues about their personality traits, and vice versa.
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What develops personality
You can develop your personality in several directions, for example, physically, intellectually, spiritually. The process of self-development includes self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-realization. At the stage of self-knowledge, a person recognizes and analyzes his strengths and weaknesses, what he can do well and what is bad.