Social Status and the Malleability of Personality
Social Status and the Malleability of Personality
http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/07/social-status-and-the-malleability-of-personality/
An insightful article on the malleability of who we are, really, who we pretend to be. We're always trying to be something or someone for the benefit of those around us so we can be accepted and I bet most of us don't even realize it. I've actually noticed traits and mannerisms change in my own personality depending on who I'm around. This is exactly similar to how people notice their friends change when they get a boyfriend/girlfriend; they do change, and it's natural that they do, we just get rather cheesed at them because they've just showed that *neither* of those are the *real* them and they've just been playing an aspect all along. But everyone does the same, no one stays the same always. As Shakespeare said, we are all actors on the stage of existence. How right he was.
