| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["life","question"],"appCategory":"life","appTitle":"How do our personalities develop? How does personality work?","appBody":"<p>Personalities develop around basic psychological needs. There are three basic psychological needs:-</p>\n<ul>\n <li>the need to predict our world</li>\n <li>the need to build competence to act on our world</li>\n <li>the need for acceptance from others</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Interestingly, Infants are highly prepared to meet these needs. They are brilliant, voracious learners on the lookout for need-relevant information. Then, as infants try to meet their needs, something important happens. They start building beliefs about their world and their role in it.</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Is the world good or bad, safe or dangerous?</li>\n <li>Can I act on my world to meet my needs?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>These beliefs, plus the emotions and action tendencies that are stored with them, are termed \"BEATs.\" They represent the accumulated experiences people have had trying to meet their needs, and they play a key role in personality(both the invisible and the visible parts of personality).</p>\n<p>The invisible part of personality consists of the needs and BEATs. They form the basis of personality and they drive and guide the visible part. The visible part happens when the needs and BEATs create the actual goals people pursue in the world, that is what people actually do.</p>\n<p>Some people are conscientious. They actively pursue achievement and exercise self-discipline and perseverance. That's the visible part. Everyone has a need for competence, but how people pursue competence & whether they do so in a conscientious manner- all will depend on their BEATs (the invisible part, such as their beliefs).</p>\n<p>Temperament can also be important. If children are shy or fearful it can make certain needs (such as the need for predictability) stronger than others and it can affect the way they react to things that happen to them & both of which can mold the BEATs they develop and carry forward.</p>\n<p>To sum up, our personality develops around our motivations (our needs and goals) and is not simply about traits we're born with. The theory also reveals the invisible parts of personality and shows how we can identify and address important BEATs (particularly beliefs) to promote personality change.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f39wvtvyp","appParentAuthor":"divine-sound","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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