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change?
do you think it's possible for a person to COMPLETELY change who they are?
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i know one girl who changes depending on were she lives i live in ohio with her where she is completley depressed and hates it and in florida with the rest of her family shes as happy as can be
i know guys that are total douche bags one year then they come back a year later and completely different
its all about maturity and life experiences
one guy could love you then not love you at all the next day...people do change
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I don't believe so because there are still traces of what the person use to be. A lot of people in my life have claimed to have changed but I don't believe it for one bit. Their views and beliefs can change...but they can't change who they are completely.
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Good question. I think people can change some things about themselves. Just maturing and getting out in the world can change a persons opinions and make them see the world differently.
As far as a COMPLETE change, no. Everyone has their personality quirks that are just part of them. It is possible to make some changes though. Enough to make a difference sometimes.
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POssibly. THrough experience, through friends, opinions of others. We are human, constantly changing and adapting to new environment. If principles can change, why not styles and personalities. I say it doesnt happen very often, but it is a possibility.
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No. Our personality is pretty much there forever. We just build up on it as we age. This is why they say that people who tortured insects as children may grow up to be extremely violent.
There's always conditioning, but those are just learned behaviors and habits. (Classical conditioning deals more with reflexes and unconscious actions to a stimulus; operant conditioning deals with learning from consequences of an event) They can't really change who you ARE.
Some people think that personality is completely detached from our anatomy, but it's really .. pretty much just your brain. The only way to COMPLETELY change who you are is to mess with certain areas of the brain. The classical example is that of Phineas Gage; guy gets impaled by a pole, damaging a section of his brain, and he becomes a different person.
Each section of the brain deals with some part of us. Take it out and it changes us. Mess with the occipital lobe, lose your vision. Mess with a part of the sensory cortex, you may lose feeling in a part of your body. But this applies to personality, as well. If you damage the frontal lobe, you'll lose the ability to plan and foresee consequences to your actions, which will cause you to be more impulsive (If you're familiar with Freud, this is kind of like kissing your Superego goodbye). If you mess with the amygdala, you may lose the ability to read faces / display emotions/etc.
Long story short, you can't just make a conscious choice to change. You can give up habits (smoking, drinking, etc) and addictions, but this may be extremely difficult. But you can't change WHO you are. Unless, of course, you get brain damage.
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No. You can change your clothes, attitude and mental outlook but you can't change your real identity and personality you're born with. You can change certain traits but you can't break away from the core essence of you.
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