Hey, everybody, you are tapped into the Listening Ears Podcast with your host, Vernae Bezear Today, I would like to discuss personality. What is personality? When someone says that's not like, so, a nd s o that's n ot their personality. What does that mean? Does that mean that someone has put you into this little neat box with a bow and s aid, this is H arry. Sometimes he gets angry or is it our brains? Like our brains, just registering it and recognizing a pattern. So if someone's doing something, the brain says, this makes sense. These are the things, or these are the things, or these are the ways of being that somebody w ho's angry is. So therefore they're angry and that's their personality. But what if, what if the personality th at w e've had doesn't serve us anymore? Right? So like, what if it's not, what if it's not in our best interest or what if this personality doesn't serve us any longer, do we reassess and ask questions and reflect and say, Hey, this is like, this isn't working for me anymore. This isn't who I am. Are we allowed to change our personality? And who determines it? When somebody's acting out of character? Is it always a red flag? I mean, can it ever be like, I was one way this entire time, but I was also in conflict with myself and now I'm this way. And this is more so my personality? I guess w hen we think o f a personality, w ell, when I think about personality, I guess, I think...are we allowed to change, evolve, see things differently, step out o f the box, step out of ourselves, be reflective, be introspective. Like a ren't we allowed to do that? And if th e a nswer is y e s, th en i t t a kes m e b a ck t o, I guess my first question, which is who determines this? Like our per sonality test s. Wh en I took it, I was an I N F J i nt rovert. And that's about right. I'm pre tty much I N F J b u t there are als o so many different facets of my personality that I feel like I don't necessarily get to show or necessarily get to feel like a hu n dred percent me beca use peo ple have assigned me or anybody. People assign people these, right? Like, that's not like you, Or It's not like your personality to do that. But it's also like, why can't people just be? Like, why can't I just BE?Personality! I t's j ust s uch a h uge t hing that I f eel like it has the a bility to e ither propel o ur growth or Hinder it. What are your thoughts?

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