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Psycho Bite Size - Is Our Personality Unchangeable?
We all talk about our personality as if it is our very soul. We cannot remember a time when we were or felt that different. We say, "It's part of my personality" and "I don't feel any older!" But how stable is personality? How much does it migrate during our lives? Are some elements truly unchangeable while others are not? As you can imagine, there are thoughts on either side of the debate. What are the arguments and what does the evidence tell us? The question for this month is:
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Peter Frost was a highly respected professor whose work focused on organisational pain. In his view, organisations are full of toxic events and interactions that prevent people from performing their roles at the optimum.
Read More »Psycho Bitesize - Locus of Control
This term was first used to distinguish between two different types of event:• Those mainly determined by skill/ability• Those mainly determined by chance/luckAbility and skill are located within a personChance and luck are located outside a personThe term is now used to distinguish between the different ways that people perceive the outcomes and events in their lives.
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