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Who are you?

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If I ask you this question, you might answer telling me the kind of things you like, what

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you do, or what your physical aspect looks like.

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Now, this is what we call your personal identity, those features that make you unique, that

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make you different from everybody else.

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Now, your personal identity distinguishes you from all the other people, but is it something

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you can choose?

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In part it is, because you decide what you do, you change your habits, and you make your

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personality with time, but in part it is something that you cannot change, you cannot choose

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your physical aspect or the features of your face, those are things you were born with.

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So personality, that is, your way of being, has two parts.

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One of them is called temperament, the other part is called character.

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Temperament is genetic, it is based on biology, it is coded in your genes, in your DNA, and

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you have it since your birth, so you cannot change it.

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For example, the basic aspect of your body, or the color of your eyes, are part of these

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genetic features.

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Now, character is quite different.

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Character is acquired.

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You learn it with time.

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You can change it.

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You can change it if you modify your habits.

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That's the kind of things you regularly do.

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So it is quite important to think what kind of person you want to become in order to change

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your habits because that's the part of your personality that you can change.