Contrary to medical opinion, each of the key factors that influence personality development is in place and operative before a baby leaves his or her mother’s womb.

Psychiatric theories claim that a person’s personality develops in “specific progressive stages” after we are born; they are purely speculative and not grounded in reality. Those stages do not exist or occur as psychiatrists claim.

The alleged personality stages supposedly occur in ways similar to physical stages of development (crawling, walking, running). Our physical development stages appear valid; however, that is not the case for the development of our individual personalities or our basic psychological abilities.

Beginnings

Personality starts evolving while we are in the womb. The important factors that influence personality are well reinforced by the time a person reaches early childhood.

Every individual intention, choice, attitude, thought, feeling, action, and reaction affects personality development in either negative or positive ways. Essentially, a person’s individual personality develops in one of two ways: 1. with mostly right choices, or, 2. with mostly wrong choices.

Extremely selfish people develop dysfunctional (toxic) personalities over time with many ongoing, selfish, wrong, dishonest, irresponsible choices.

Positive and healthy personalities are built with a majority of ongoing, unselfish, right, loving, truthful, lovingly responsible choices.

All of us selfish humans have chosen to approach life in either a basically angry or basically fearful way. The particular way becomes the fundamental way that we selfishly control as we attempt to get what we want, or to avoid what we do not want in situations and relationships. Whether a person is basically angry or basically fearful is another key factor in how a personality will reveal itself.
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