The concept of "personality" has a long history. There is a well-known opinion that the actor was originally called the person in the Greek mask theater .
A person in Greece could exist only in the context of a community.
In Christianity, a person was equated with a soul, which, as you know, is immaterial. In modern times, a person began to be considered the embodiment of the "I" of man.
So what is a person today? A person, scientists say, is a whole complex of socially significant traits of a person that characterize him as a member of a collective (society). It is this complex that makes a person the subject of his conscious activity, social relations.
When asked about what a person is, philosophers and psychologists answer that this is the highest point of development of the individual, the most complete embodiment of his human qualities. Personality is always determined by biological, social, and 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 their actions and be responsible for their consequences. Sometimes the townsfolk identify 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 life position. Conscious activity on 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 landmarks. Self-determination is influenced by the environment, external circumstances, biological characteristics.
What is a person in terms of biology? This is the external data of a person, his health, his temperament and natural drives. Certainly, innate traits are important, but the determining factor for the formation of a full-fledged personality is consciousness and personality attitudes. They can be positive, aimed at achieving success, freedom, justice. May be negative, destroying the inner world.
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 installation, the more benefit it will bring.
Attitudes are principles that are responsible for the personality architecture itself, setting the tone for a person’s lifestyle and aspirations. Attitudes are mind orders that control actions, deeds, and emotional states.
Positive attitudes help to achieve success, negative attitudes lead to laziness, social paralysis, and attunement to failure.
A personality formed under the influence of positive attitudes is not unsuccessful. There are six ideal types formed by personal attitudes.
- Theoretical, introducing systemicity and logic even into everyday life.
- Economic, for which the mover of actions is their effectiveness.
- Aesthetic, with difficulty transferring the realities of life, but with pleasure leaving for the world of fantasies.
- Social, which is at the forefront of love for people.
- Political, seeking power.
- Religious, striving for higher spiritual goals.