What Makes a Person Unique: The Impact of Environment on Individuality

Introduction

Personality trait is defined as the relative enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that distinguish a person from a group of many. Such include family, friends, or different nations. There is no telling to what a person is thinking unless from the individual themselves. This is what makes a person unique because from a person’s behavior one can tell what kind of an individual one portrays to be in a crowd. Besides, no one behaves the same. This essay explores the question of what makes a person unique, by discussing how personality traits are shaped by a combination of internal factors such as thoughts and feelings, as well as external influences such as environment and life events.

Some people like to cause chaos while there are those who advocate for peace. Maybe how a person is brought up in their childhood determines what kind of person one will turn out to be in the future. For example, if a child grows up with parents who are giving and caring too much for their child’s comfort. The child might be demanding thinking everything will be given to them like they were brought up, and this might determine his or her personality. Meaning, personality traits are powerful predictors to what kind of a person is before the world or how people perceive each other through their characteristics. As much as a person may develop a certain characteristic towards a condition, they may change with time.

From the article, it is clear that change creates impact beginning from how a person feels. Feelings determine a lot, because when an individual is feeling positive they tend to be productive unlike when they feel negative about something. Besides, life is a journey with all kinds of mysteries to uncover. There is no telling what a person’s choice might do to them or their behaviors. After all, personality traits are factors that can impact life outcomes through an individual’s generation of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors towards something. There is no way a person will be clean if they are lazy to wash themselves. Meaning, if a person has a positive thought towards cleaning up and work, they will not be lazy in tiding and such a trait can tell that one is responsible. People should be brought up with a positive mindset to having a productive nation, studying how changes affect traits help people to make the right call in changing for the better.

However, change does not come in a single thought. There must be influencing factors to impose a change to an individual because one is leaving their old ways to cope with new strategies in battling life’s experiences. Besides, change can be scary because one is not used to the character and so the situation they are in is making them have no options left. Personality change can be driven by external influences on life events that changes the way a person thinks towards a particular subject of crisis. It is the beginning of change in a person’s thinking that develops their thoughts to having a new point of view towards live. This is to say that personality changes in an individual and the way a person behaves is not permanent because they are influenced by their surrounding too as one grows.

In the article, it is proven in research that most changes to how one behaves begin to show during adolescence or when a person is transitioning to early adulthood. Additionally, people change during their old age. Maybe it has to do with a person’s feeling to what they want because during those two times, one realizes that they are growing. It becomes a moment of self-reflection till one realizes that they need to change their behavior as their age does not allow. It might be the reason why adults choose to eat using spoons and children hands. Young adulthood and old age are sensitive periods to personality change because one starts to behave according to what they want to become.

Conclusion

Basically, the mind controls thoughts, the latter controls feelings. As a result someone will act according to how they feel. The environment has a way to contribute because if a person is surrounded with people who are lazy and feel negatively about work, they will be the same unless one does not have the thought in their mind. After all, how a child is raised greatly determines their actions and thoughts. People should be brought up in a manner to be independent in developing a hardworking personality trait. This study helps in coming up with better ways to school children and parenting young adults as people grow to take responsibility in life. A person’s thinking shapes their focus to what they want and in the long run creating a change to personality. Despite the change to thinking, is it easy to change for the better?

Work Cited

Bleidorn, Wiebke, et al. 'The policy relevance of personality traits.' American psychologist 74.9 (2019): 1056.