If you’re fortunate enough to witness children growing up, you’ll notice, with hindsight, that their fundamental personalities were there from the start. Inherited behavioural and character traits, either from our parents or by some quirk of nature from much further back.
As we grow, these simple shapes are kept, but built upon, by what some might call ‘conditioning’ i.e. how you are treated or taught by others, and your experiences.
I think it’s very neat to think of this all building up in layers, like a Russian doll, but I’m sure it’s a lot more complex than that. If we started to peel away these layers, we would find some are stuck together, missing parts, or simply broken. Some parts might even be sliding under other tracts – connecting seemingly unrelated layers.
Psychology must make for fascinating but scary sort of work. Who of us would like to see such a cross section of others, but especially ourselves?
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