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A person has a personality.

What is a personality? If you truely begin to look into this question you soon find that it expands. It can be like asking, 'What is a person?'

 There is the personality that the person is aware of, the personality that others are aware of and then there is that which no one knows, at least not consciously. Which brings up the structures of personality, Conscious and Unconscious and all that.

Which brings up the idea of individual and collective. Is there a personal personality and a personality that exists as a part of a collective? What is the collective? Is it other humans, culture, society? Does it include other than humans and their societies? How has the Orb Weaver over my door affected my personality as an individual and as a memeber of something bigger?

Is your personality measurable and/or indicateable? Are you an introvert or extrovert? Are you a sensor or an intuitive? Are you ever just one of these, or a blend, or maybe niether/none?

Are we what we seem to be? What do we seem to be? Once you begin to look, the rabbit hole receeds quickly. Can we effectively tweek what most people consider to be the norm? Does it really work or is it all imaginal? Is there a difference, does it matter?

What is a personality?