What is a personality and how important are attitudes for it

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

The concept of "personality" has a long history. There is a well-known opinion that the actor was originally called a person in the Greek theater of masks.

An individual in Greece could only exist in the context of a community.

In Christianity, the person was equated with the soul, which, as you know, is intangible. In modern times, a person began to be considered the embodiment of the “I” of a person.

So what is personality today? Personality, according to scientists, is a whole complex of socially significant features of a person that characterizes him as a member of a team (society). It is this complex that makes a person the subject of his conscious activity, social relations.

To the question of what a personality is, philosophers and psychologists answer that it is the highest point of an individual's development, the most complete embodiment of his human qualities. Personality is always conditioned by biological, social, social factors.

If you ask ordinary people about what a person is, you can hear that this is a person with an active position in life, able to plan his actions and be responsible for their consequences. Sometimesordinary people equate the concepts of "personality" and "leader", although they are not always equivalent.

Since a person exists in society, he is simply obliged to have his own position in life. Conscious activity in the formation of this position and its implementation in real life is defined by the term "personal self-determination".

This is the basis for setting life goals and guidelines. Self-determination is influenced by the environment, external circumstances, biological characteristics.

What is a person in terms of biology? These are the external data of a person, his he alth, his temperament and natural inclinations. Undoubtedly, innate traits matter, but the determining factor for the formation of a full-fledged personality is the consciousness and attitudes of the personality. They can be positive, aimed at achieving success, freedom, justice. They can be negative, destroying the inner world.

When raising children, organizing any activity, engaging in self-education or achieving a goal, it is important to ensure that attitudes are positive. The more positive the attitude, the more benefits it will bring.

Attitudes are the principles responsible for the very architecture of the individual, setting the tone for a person's lifestyle and aspirations. Attitudes - orders of the mind that control actions, deeds, emotional state.

Positive attitudes help to achieve success, negative attitudes lead to laziness, social paralysis,set up for defeat.

A personality formed under the influence of positive attitudes is never unsuccessful. There are six ideal types formed by personal attitudes.

• Theoretical, introducing consistency and logic even into everyday life.
• Economic, for which the driver of actions is their efficiency.
• Aesthetic, hard to bear the realities of life, but with pleasure leaving for the world of fantasy.
• Social in which love for people is at the forefront.
• Political, seeking power.
• Religious, striving for higher spiritual goals.