Your Personality

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Your Personality
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Think of one unique quality about yourself.
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What is personality?

• Personality is a combination of traits that makes
  you the person you are
• Includes habits, feelings, how you think and
  interact with others
• Traits are qualities that make you different from
  everyone else. Some are desirable, some are not.
  

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How does your personality develop?

• Heredity
• Environment

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Heredity

• The passing of traits from one generation of
  family to the next
• Traits are passed through genes
• Determine the characteristics that will appear as
  you grow and develop
• Inherited traits
• Eyes, hair, skin, etc. received from parents and
  ancestors when you were born.

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Environment

• Includes all the circumstances in your
  surroundings
• People, home, school, community, media, TV
• Acquired traits develop as a result of your
  environment
• Likes, dislikes, goals, interests, abilities,
  speech, mannerisms

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Environment

• Home and Family
• Most important environmental factor shaping your
  personality
• Many personality traits are learned through
  imitation

• Birth Order
• Size of your family often influences your
  personality

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Environment

• School and friends
• Size
• Courses offered
• Teachers and coaches
• Friends

• Community and others
• Scout troops

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Can you change your personality?

• Not easy, but it can be done if you really want
  to change
• If there is a trait you would like to change
• select one area at a time
• write down a specific plan
• set realistic goals
• Put your plan into action