can personality or adapt over time?
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I think that it can, it depends on your life experinces. For example if something really terrible happens to to you are you still going to be outgoing enthusiastic?\nDepends on the person and the curcumstances
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Yes. Try the evolutionary point of view. Many psychological and sociological events take a better light, too.
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Yes I believe this is true.  Once you find your purpose you realize that you can't go back and change things because that changes who you are which could make you come to a completely different conclusion about your purpose.  You must simply accept your lot in life and go on with it and keep growing.  If you go back to fix things you shrink again.
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I've known stubborn set-in-their-ways people who were 7-years old.  I've known enthusiastic, open-minded, ready to learn and take on new challenges people in their 90s.  My guess is that people are who they are and the years just pile on after that, and it's who they are deep down that will see them open to change or not.\n\nBut my opinion isn't written in stone.  I'm open to changing it.\n\n;)
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What about your personality?  Are you cold?
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I feel like I've changed a lot.  My opinions of things have changed through the gaining of knowledge and otherwise. Things like philosophy, language, spelling, math, and other assorted pieces of information have really come in handy.  MY opinion of what girls should look has changed.  I really like high school girls now...18 of course, they must be of legal age.  But personality wise I've learned to cope with all kinds.  Good Stuff
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Every system is capable of change.  These changes are subject to both internal and external pressures that require a being to adapt.  For example, an internal pressure that would require a change would be the sexual maturation of an organism.  An external pressure that could cause a change would be something like a significant temperature change, or a change in predation patterns.
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Because over time people adapted to life in different areas of the world.
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capacity to growth,functional activity, and continual change until death.
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if you, have personality ,why not
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Personality and looks.
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Not everything has to be an adaptation, but assuming it is, there is likely an adaptive value to demonstrating emotion in a social animal such as humans. I don't know the specific answer to your two questions, but you might start with Darwin's "Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals", he discusses it there, I'm sure there's been work since.
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personality diffrences are based in preception and experiences. First the preception provides the input to the experience. Then previous experiences formulate the response. What you really have is input then output. The question you should be asking is : what happened to processing ? giggles - Joeysopha
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Jung-Myers-Briggs typology; Been around awhile but useful if you have never done it.
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interesting theory\ni would imagine that applies with religion yes\nhowever most religions have adapted .. even those who seem set in their ways , did at one point borrow and adopt other beliefs\n\nin saying that , i do feel that in present day , adapting is no longer accepted for many
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personality. last longer
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Get to know people around you more than you would usually. You'd be surprised to see how attracted you may be to someone who's been there the entire time. The more personality someone reveals usually the more attractive they become.