An individual is a sum total of habit-conditioning influences that have helped shape your personality from the day of birth. Such shaping has come from influences within the home, stemming from family members and friends. Other influences come from outside the home, including religious influences and the influence of society. Just as it takes a variety of colors to make a rainbow, many factors make up each personality.
Fortunately, most personality traits are not inherited, and even those that are can be controlled. They are expressions of the "inner you," which have largely been learned and acquired through conditioning and imitation.
Personality is influenced by conscious and unconscious factors. Psychoanalysts believe that personality can be changed only by bringing what is buried in the subconscious mind to the level of conscious awareness. They may be preponderantly correct in this, but only if action is taken once an individual is aware of it.
Mature personality involves self-control. Developing and maintaining a healthy personality involves hard work and persistent attention to acquire the desired qualities. Gradually, a personality shift may occur deep in the recesses of your subconscious mind, but such a shift may be one of the most difficult endeavors in an individual’s life. It is, I believe, proper to make the assumption that, aside from minor, evolutionary shifts and modifications over a lifetime, a formed personality is generally a permanent one.
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