[wizkid]

This is my theory on personality, constructive criticism is welcome but expect a reply. Im just trying to iron out what might be wrong with it.

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Introduction

There are a couple of things that influence personality. First of all personality is broken down into a number of variables very much like an equation and each variable has 2 sides. What I am going to do is take a look at each variable and break those sides down into their Ying/Yang components affecting the final product of the personality, this can pretty much be applied to everyone. You have to understand that this formula works based on the fact that everybody is affected by a set of external elements within a closed environment and therefore personality is not only predictable but can also be calculated.

Introverts and Extroverts: Causes

In general there are two types of people in the world, introverts and extroverts and this relates back to Jung’s personality types. I believe to nail down the cause of how somebody becomes introverted/extroverted, you really have to step back and take a look at how a basic cell works and how it reacts to stimulation on the whole. A brand new cell is like a brain, at first it really doesn’t know what to make of the world but as time goes on, various forms of stimuli is received and the brain matures into its final state as it accepts various stimulation imprints onto the nervous system. A cell very much works the same way. When a cell is created, it doesn’t know what to make of the world and accepts all stimuli it comes across, but if that cell receives a good amount of positive stimulation from the beginning of its very existence. Then the cell begins to crave that stimulation because it has become conditioned to respond to it and that stimulation becomes the cells security, very much how a baby cries for a bottle when he/she is hungry or how somebody always has to be the life of the party. Now we are going to deal with the opposite effect. What if a cell doesn’t receive the proper stimulation and it ends up maturing, the cell becomes introverted because of the matured state minus the stimulation and as a result it doesn’t like any changes in its environment and therefore becomes introverted in its current state, this creates a state of systemization. The actual size of the cell would also be smaller simply because there wasn’t any stimulation received as opposed to the extroverted cell which grew because of the positive stimulation, I know this because there was an experiment done years where a baby received applied stimulation compared to one who didn’t, well the one that did grew twice as fast as the one that didn’t receive the applied stimulation. Now take the single cell premise and apply it to a human who is really composed of billions of cells in which all the cells are linked and share stimuli. This implicates that touch is a huge factor before the age of 5, a child who receives touch will be much more inclined to go after things in life and would generally be the life of the party if given the chance, simply because the touch ends up being their security very much in the same way as the single cell would perceive the touch, basically to be loved by others. The stimulation received as a toddler has given the child the confidence to portray themselves as a go getter. All in all they are just assuming the role of an extrovert based on how they feel about the world, and it really does become their security in their end. An introvert on the other hand likes to work alone, doesn’t feel comfortable around lots of people. In essence that becomes his security, having everything just right, orderly and withdrawn from society in general creating systemization. All in all, our emotional security is made of the mass psychology that each individual cell feels and that translates to how we become as individuals, this all stems from the basic notion that stimulation is one of the key fundamental components of evolution and is really a building block for personality.

Mannerisms and stress before birth

Well in determining how your child is going to end up you really have to consider all the variables, well one that has certainly been over looked is the stress a women goes through while pregnant. A women who is easily stressed passes on that stress to the child in her womb. The brain cells of that child are in the very early developing stages and are very susceptible to bouts of stress that the mother may be going through, that stress is dissipated from the mother and transferred on to the child because the body acts as a heat sink for the brain, basically spreading the stress over a large area to get rid of the concentrated effect creating almost like an equalized effect. This stress being dissipated puts new stress on the child altering the important fundamental development in the early stages of the babies conception making the cells very touchy and somewhat overdeveloped from the excess stimulation being applied from the stress. The newly formed touchy cells keep this emotional state and actually get worse with time that constantly release stimulus to the mind and other parts of the body creating anxiety and such, probably bringing on early grey hair in the process later on in life. This babies newly found state puts the child on edge and he/she ends up craving attention, but in a negative way, leading him to act out when he gains a sense of self at a young age, becoming defiant etc, leading to ADHD among other things like alcoholism to quell the anxiety build up that may be present later in life, drug abuse as there habits mature and all kinds of other dysfunctional activity. It basically transfers a carbon copy of how the mother feels on to the child at the time of birth that ends up getting coupled with a shallow reality, this shallow reality then ends up getting dealt with by shallow means leading to dysfunction later on in life. Now if everything was stable in the womb and the transference of stress was not occurring, the child for the most part would come out very healthy, not need any extra attention and in be better behaved overall down the line and not refer to substances to quell the unconscious needs that were probably created during the conception process.

Mannerisms

Mannerisms are generally something that is transferred from the mother to the child and taking into account that if there was stress during the birth then the fundamentals of the mother are probably not in the best shape and the mannerisms that would be transferred to the child would also be somewhat incomplete and probably erratic in some shape or form. This is generally bad because it’s the mannerisms that determine how successful we are when we are dealing with people on a day to day basis and people pick up on them almost instantly through various social cues, body language and in general how you come across and present yourself. With that being said somebody who doesn’t have very good mannerisms will probably fair a lot worse then somebody who has them leading to a decline in quality of life and ailments like depression and substance abuse to coup with their harsh reality, its especially important in social relationships as well considering one of the main goals in life is to meet somebody but that process will be hindered if the very core of your personality does not hold up to the ever rising standards of society. Mannerisms deal with speech, movement and how you come across in general. The world is very judgmental and mannerisms are the first thing people take note of besides actual appearance. So they have to be good to build your confidence factor which is really a part of touch and an extended part of being an extrovert which I already covered. They are all connected directly or indirectly. Overall though good mannerisms are the responsibility of the parents to provide stable family life, good communication, touch, the attention of rising unconscious and conscious needs, dealing with things in a very efficient calm manner and in general just being there with a complete and open realization that they are taking care of another human being. Without this intent from the beginning people will grow up and experience things that probably could have been avoided with the right upbringing.

Logical vs. creativity

This part of the personality determines our interests. I personally believe that this is one of the only parts that we have absolutely no control over. This is a mixture of compromise, testosterone, estrogen, how dense the brain is and what the brain is trying to do as it grows during the fundamental stages of life. Even before a baby is born testosterone and estrogen play a vital role in determining if you become logical or creative. If there is a higher then average ratio of estrogen the mind will come out a little bit smaller but with increased density. This density allows the neurons to connect with one another since they are closer to together, this allows the person to use more of the brain when performing tasks. It also demands more stimuli to be taken in, and this stimulus is able to erect feelings within the person because of how the brain is denser overall allowing more of the brain to work in unison. Feelings then come to the surface, the mind becomes sharper and the senses are stimulated giving rise to creative thinking patterns that create memories in the process making for a very good memory. Memory is then accessed allowing the person to draw on more ideas at once making up creative thought. When somebody becomes logical, there is an excess of testosterone in the womb that affects the brain. This makes the brain larger and spreads out the neurons. The mind neurons are less connected as a result which restricts the feelings of empathy that would normally rise to the surface. The emotion never gets stimulated and is replaced by cyclical tendencies to stimulate the brain and is the exact point where the compromise comes in, as the brain must be doing something as it grows at this huge pace during the first couple of yrs, if there is no emotion, the person automatically focus’s on what he sees which is the inanimate objects around him/her. The brain then tries to connect as many neurons as it can through the act of this type of stimulation. In which the use of logic and the interaction between objects becomes the focus creating somebody who ends up thinking of life in a logical sense. I am dealing with extreme cases, as most people fall somewhere in the middle utilizing both creative and logical means.

Brain symmetry/Overall size

This part of the personality deals directly with how intelligent you become. In general brain size does count but it is how well it is utilized that really makes the difference. And I am going to use a person with asperger's syndrome which is a form of autism as a basis to work off of. A person with AS is equipped with a brain that is larger in both hemispheres. It’s also a fairly well known fact that people with AS end up being average to above average intelligence. The testosterone produced at birth acts as a stimulant and enlarges the brain causing the person to become fixated on the intake of information that is supplied by inanimate objects. This leads to a flurry of cyclical emergency tendencies to fill the space with some information building the fundamentals for very pattern oriented thinking and in the end the AS patient ends up with above average intellect, there is a problem with this though, often there is a learning disability and if the AS patient doesn’t learn to open up then his cyclical tendencies can only warrant so much intellect, he/she has to find a way to turn his introverted tendencies outward and become a mild extrovert and continue to bring in outside information to expand his own knowledge base, if this is unable to happen then he might just end up very much like an autistic. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have dyslexics. Dyslexics end up with brains that look fairly symmetrical on both sides but they also have a learning disability, but this learning disability is from not being able to use all aspects of the brain at once as the brain needs time to mature much like learning a new task for the first time, the task ends up being really sloppy but refines the more you do it and since the brain is already symmetrical the learning stimulus ends up getting distributed equally, allowing greater more accurate judgment because a larger part of the brain is being used to calculate the end result, again since more of the brain is being used it will take longer to develop, probably quite a few yrs longer then the other children and hence that person will end up being viewed as stupid etc, this is also the reason why many great minds were once considered to have a learning disability, as they mature and come into there own, the learn how to utilize the brain properly and end up making decisions with greater accuracy. Now if you take this premise and realize that the brain matures dynamically based on the stimuli being received during the course of the persons lifetime, then you will come to the conclusion that anything is possible, and strengths do arise based on brain symmetry and why strengths arise in certain areas as some parts of the brain gets favored more then others, there is a compromise as well as dyslexics have a hard time recognizing words since the entire thought process encompasses ideas differently by taking all the information in at once, breaking it down, and distributes equally to the various parts of the brain but in the process would end up forgetting some of the small details since the learning process is based on cyclical learning and not memory based identification. This corrects itself with time after a certain amount of stimuli has been received and the dyslexic ends up being able to use his brain to his full advantage utilizing the memory side of his intellect. In terms of people who do not have AS or the brain structure of a dyslexic they usually end up sticking with there strengths and basing there careers around what they are good at but never really fully utilize the brain to its full potential because of way society is structured, but make no mistake, people are really able to adapt to anything and find compromise for their personal weakness with effort and dedication and can become complete experts in their field as they utilize their various strengths which is most definitely a good thing. Bottom line, all parts of the brain need to be stimulated at a young age so your intelligence can mature to its full potential. It really comes down to balance.

Conclusion

Overall people are made up of the above criteria, mix and match them and you can build personality profiles. Of course this doesn’t take into account the actual experience, family situation and the amount of money etc present in the family but you can see what factors would influence what if you just took a second and thought about it.

wow. wizkid. Do you study psychology? Sounds like you have a pretty good interest there

[Direction]

You've certainly done some thinking...I'm responding in kind with some gentle opinions as I read


There are a couple of things that influence personality. ////// probably many (uncountable)

First of all personality is broken down into a number of variables very much like an equation and each variable has 2 sides. What I am going to do is take a look at each variable and break those sides down into their Ying/Yang components affecting the final product of the personality, this can pretty much be applied to everyone. You have to understand that this formula works based on the fact that everybody is affected by a set of external elements within a closed environment and therefore personality is not only predictable but can also be calculated. /////////// interesting thesis statement-It will be interesting to see how you will show this...

Introverts and Extroverts: Causes

In general there are two types of people in the world, introverts and extroverts and this relates back to Jung’s personality types... I believe to nail down the cause of how somebody becomes introverted/extroverted, you really have to step back and take a look at how a basic cell works and how it reacts to stimulation on the whole. A brand new cell is like a brain, at first it really doesn’t know what to make of the world but as time goes on, various forms of stimuli is received and the brain matures into its final state as it accepts various stimulation imprints onto the nervous system. A cell very much works the same way. When a cell is created, it doesn’t know what to make of the world and accepts all stimuli it comes across, but if that cell receives a good amount of positive stimulation from the beginning of its very existence. Then the cell begins to crave that stimulation because it has become conditioned to respond to it and that stimulation becomes the cells security, very much how a baby cries for a bottle when he/she is hungry or how somebody always has to be the life of the party. ///// putting these two examples together doesn't seem to fit well...baby crying is communication...life of the party is a personallity style.

Now we are going to deal with the opposite effect. What if a cell doesn’t receive the proper stimulation and it ends up maturing, the cell becomes introverted because of the matured state minus the stimulation and as a result it doesn’t like any changes in its environment and therefore becomes introverted in its current state, this creates a state of systemization. The actual size of the cell would also be smaller simply because there wasn’t any stimulation received as opposed to the extroverted cell which grew because of the positive stimulation, I know this because there was an experiment done years where a baby received applied stimulation compared to one who didn’t, well the one that did grew twice as fast as the one that didn’t receive the applied stimulation. Now take the single cell premise and apply it to a human who is really composed of billions of cells in which all the cells are linked and share stimuli. This implicates that touch is a huge factor before the age of 5, a child who receives touch will be much more inclined to go after things in life and would generally be the life of the party if given the chance ////// stimilation of children is key to good development...not sure that it can be linked to being the life of a party...the opposite could be true...lack of attention when little...now wants all the attention and becomes life of the party.

simply because the touch ends up being their security very much in the same way as the single cell would perceive the touch, basically to be loved by others. The stimulation received as a toddler has given the child the confidence to portray themselves as a go getter. //// not sure about the go getter part...but definately a better self esteem.

All in all they are just assuming the role of an extrovert based on how they feel about the world, and it really does become their security in their end. An introvert on the other hand likes to work alone, doesn’t feel comfortable around lots of people. In essence that becomes his security, having everything just right, orderly and withdrawn from society in general creating systemization. All in all, our emotional security is made of the mass psychology that each individual cell feels and that translates to how we become as individuals, this all stems from the basic notion that stimulation is one of the key fundamental components of evolution and is really a building block for personality. //// I'm not sure about taking it to some cell level in your examples...it kind of sounds once the cell receives or doesn't receive stimilu it is set in stone. When in reality a cell would experience a great amount of varible stimilu over time...good and bad and everything in between? (if I use your cell idea)

Mannerisms and stress before birth

Well in determining how your child is going to end up you really have to consider all the variables, well one that has certainly been over looked is the stress a women goes through while pregnant. A women who is easily stressed passes on that stress to the child in her womb. The brain cells of that child are in the very early developing stages and are very susceptible to bouts of stress that the mother may be going through, that stress is dissipated from the mother and transferred on to the child because the body acts as a heat sink for the brain, ///// Stress would probably affect ... not sure in the way you describe...I'm thinking more about how mother copes with stress...can she handle it, does she loose sleep, does she abuse drugs and alcohol to deal with stress

basically spreading the stress over a large area to get rid of the concentrated effect creating almost like an equalized effect. This stress being dissipated puts new stress on the child altering the important fundamental development in the early stages of the babies conception making the cells very touchy and somewhat overdeveloped from the excess stimulation being applied from the stress. The newly formed touchy cells keep this emotional state and actually get worse with time that constantly release stimulus to the mind and other parts of the body creating anxiety and such, probably bringing on early grey hair in the process later on in life. //// I'm not sure grey hair is necessarily linked exclusively to anxiety

This babies newly found state puts the child on edge and he/she ends up craving attention, but in a negative way, leading him to act out when he gains a sense of self at a young age /// I think it would be difficult to tie what happens in the womb in terms of stress to the personality of a child

, becoming defiant etc, leading to ADHD among other things like alcoholism to quell the anxiety build up that may be present later in life, drug abuse as there habits mature and all kinds of other dysfunctional activity. //// these are pretty big leaps...not every stressed mother gives birth to a child that would display these things

It basically transfers a carbon copy of how the mother feels on to the child at the time of birth that ends up getting coupled with a shallow reality, this shallow reality then ends up getting dealt with by shallow means leading to dysfunction later on in life. Now if everything was stable in the womb and the transference of stress was not occurring, the child for the most part would come out very healthy, not need any extra attention and in be better behaved overall down the line and not refer to substances to quell the unconscious needs that were probably created during the conception process. //////many things after the child is born I think are a much bigger factor in personality...it is possible that your theory could in some small way be one of thousands of factors.

Mannerisms

Mannerisms are generally something that is transferred from the mother to the child and taking into account that if there was stress during the birth then the fundamentals of the mother are probably not in the best shape and the mannerisms that would be transferred to the child would also be somewhat incomplete and probably erratic in some shape or form. ///// this is a pretty big leap

This is generally bad because it’s the mannerisms that determine how successful we are when we are dealing with people on a day to day basis /// mannerisms can be trained if you are referring to body language

and people pick up on them almost instantly through various social cues, body language and in general how you come across and present yourself. ///// education and experience will be a bigger indicator then this going back to in womb activities

With that being said somebody who doesn’t have very good mannerisms will probably fair a lot worse //// Agreed

then somebody who has them leading to a decline in quality of life and ailments like depression and substance abuse to coup with their harsh reality //// many successful people have failed many, many times before success came...not all people will decline

, its especially important in social relationships as well considering one of the main goals in life is to meet somebody but that process will be hindered if the very core of your personality does not hold up /// ok

to the ever rising standards of society. /// not sure...I see declining standards

Mannerisms deal with speech, movement and how you come across in general. The world is very judgmental and mannerisms are the first thing people take note of besides actual appearance. So they have to be good to build your confidence factor which is really a part of touch and an extended part of being an extrovert which I already covered. /// Yes world is judgemental...and first impression can play a role...Mannerisms can be changed and are changed and shaped

They are all connected directly or indirectly. ///// ?

Overall though good mannerisms are the responsibility of the parents to provide stable family life, good communication, touch, the attention of rising unconscious and conscious needs, dealing with things in a very efficient calm manner and in general just being there with a complete and open realization that they are taking care of another human being. /// Agreed...this doesn't support your cell theory

Without this intent from the beginning people will grow up and experience things that probably could have been avoided with the right upbringing. //// Yes, but again many people overcome awful upbringings....

Logical vs. creativity

This part of the personality determines our interests. I personally believe that this is one of the only parts that we have absolutely no control over. ///// this would be a hard thing to prove

This is a mixture of compromise, testosterone, estrogen, how dense the brain is and what the brain is trying to do as it grows during the fundamental stages of life. Even before a baby is born testosterone and estrogen play a vital role in determining if you become logical or creative. If there is a higher then average ratio of estrogen the mind will come out a little bit smaller but with increased density. This density allows the neurons to connect with one another since they are closer to together, this allows the person to use more of the brain when performing tasks. It also demands more stimuli to be taken in, and this stimulus is able to erect feelings within the person because of how the brain is denser overall allowing more of the brain to work in unison. Feelings then come to the surface, the mind becomes sharper and the senses are stimulated giving rise to creative thinking patterns that create memories in the process making for a very good memory. Memory is then accessed allowing the person to draw on more ideas at once making up creative thought. //// probably would be good to have some sources sited.

When somebody becomes logical, there is an excess of testosterone in the womb that affects the brain. This makes the brain larger and spreads out the neurons. The mind neurons are less connected as a result which restricts the feelings of empathy that would normally rise to the surface. The emotion never gets stimulated and is replaced by cyclical tendencies to stimulate the brain and is the exact point where the compromise comes in, as the brain must be doing something as it grows at this huge pace during the first couple of yrs, if there is no emotion, the person automatically focus’s on what he sees which is the inanimate objects around him/her. The brain then tries to connect as many neurons as it can through the act of this type of stimulation. In which the use of logic and the interaction between objects becomes the focus creating somebody who ends up thinking of life in a logical sense. I am dealing with extreme cases, as most people fall somewhere in the middle utilizing both creative and logical means. //// don't forget about proper nutriution...if you don't have proper nuitruition you won't have the correct nutrients for certain things to develop at certain times that can only be developed at that time...side note...my youngest was on a feeding tube from 14 months to 4 years old...main reason to make sure she got the nutrients necessary for healthy physical and mental growth.

Brain symmetry/Overall size

This part of the personality deals directly with how intelligent you become. In general brain size does count but it is how well it is utilized that really makes the difference. And I am going to use a person with asperger's syndrome which is a form of autism as a basis to work off of. A person with AS is equipped with a brain that is larger in both hemispheres. It’s also a fairly well known fact that people with AS end up being average to above average intelligence. The testosterone produced at birth acts as a stimulant and enlarges the brain causing the person to become fixated on the intake of information that is supplied by inanimate objects. This leads to a flurry of cyclical emergency tendencies to fill the space with some information building the fundamentals for very pattern oriented thinking and in the end the AS patient ends up with above average intellect, there is a problem with this though, often there is a learning disability and if the AS patient doesn’t learn to open up then his cyclical tendencies can only warrant so much intellect, he/she has to find a way to turn his introverted tendencies outward and become a mild extrovert and continue to bring in outside information to expand his own knowledge base, if this is unable to happen then he might just end up very much like an autistic. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have dyslexics. Dyslexics end up with brains that look fairly symmetrical on both sides but they also have a learning disability, but this learning disability is from not being able to use all aspects of the brain at once as the brain needs time to mature much like learning a new task for the first time, the task ends up being really sloppy but refines the more you do it and since the brain is already symmetrical the learning stimulus ends up getting distributed equally, allowing greater more accurate judgment because a larger part of the brain is being used to calculate the end result, again since more of the brain is being used it will take longer to develop, probably quite a few yrs longer then the other children and hence that person will end up being viewed as stupid etc, this is also the reason why many great minds were once considered to have a learning disability, as they mature and come into there own, the learn how to utilize the brain properly and end up making decisions with greater accuracy. Now if you take this premise and realize that the brain matures dynamically based on the stimuli being received during the course of the persons lifetime, then you will come to the conclusion that anything is possible, and strengths do arise based on brain symmetry and why strengths arise in certain areas as some parts of the brain gets favored more then others, there is a compromise as well as dyslexics have a hard time recognizing words since the entire thought process encompasses ideas differently by taking all the information in at once, breaking it down, and distributes equally to the various parts of the brain but in the process would end up forgetting some of the small details since the learning process is based on cyclical learning and not memory based identification. This corrects itself with time after a certain amount of stimuli has been received and the dyslexic ends up being able to use his brain to his full advantage utilizing the memory side of his intellect. In terms of people who do not have AS or the brain structure of a dyslexic they usually end up sticking with there strengths and basing there careers around what they are good at but never really fully utilize the brain to its full potential because of way society is structured, but make no mistake, people are really able to adapt to anything and find compromise for their personal weakness with effort and dedication and can become complete experts in their field as they utilize their various strengths which is most definitely a good thing. //// not sure this adds much to the understanding of your bottom line

Bottom line, all parts of the brain need to be stimulated at a young age so your intelligence can mature to its full potential. It really comes down to balance.

Conclusion

Overall people are made up of the above criteria, mix and match them and you can build personality profiles. Of course this doesn’t take into account the actual experience, family situation and the amount of money etc present in the family but you can see what factors would influence what if you just took a second and thought about it. ///// I thought your thesis was... therefore personality is not only predictable but can also be calculated?