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The conversation continues…
1. Do you think our personalities are set when we are born?
2. Can we change our personalities? How?
3. How has your personality changed in the last ten years?
4. Which three words would you use to describe the personality of your best friend?
5. How are your personalities similar? How are your personalities different?
6. Why do you think opposites are sometimes attracted to each other?
7. Some cultures define personality in terms of the elements: Would you say you are primarily air, water, fire, or earth? Why did you choose that element?
8. Which three qualities do you think of as yin (feminine)?
9. Which three qualities do you think of as yang (masculine)?
10. Can you name one yin quality and one yang quality which describe you?
11. How might being raised in poverty influence someone’s personality?
12. Do you think being born in extreme wealth would change your personality? How?
13. If you had been born in another country, do you think your personality would be different? How?
14. Can you think of somebody with a good personality and bad character?
15. What is the difference between one’s personality and one’s character?
16. Are you primarily an extrovert or an introvert? Why do you say that?
17. Do you think nature (biology) or nurture (our circumstances) are more important in shaping our personalities? Why do you say that?
18. What are your best qualities?
Quotations - Circle the quotations you like.
1. “Know thyself.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher (470–399 B.C. E.)
2. “The man of character bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and scientist
3. “This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”—William Shakespeare, playwright (1564–1616)
4. “Character is much easier kept than recovered.” —Thomas Paine (1737–1809), writer and revolutionary
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