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1. Do you think our personalities are set when we are born?
2. Can we change our personalities? How?
3. How has your personality changed in the last ten years?
4. Which three words would you use to describe the personality of your best friend?
5. How are your personalities similar? How are your personalities different?
6. Why do you think opposites are sometimes attracted to each other?
7. Some cultures define personality in terms of the elements: Would you say you are primarily air, water, fire, or earth? Why did you choose that element?
8. Which three qualities do you think of as yin (feminine)?
9. Which three qualities do you think of as yang (masculine)?
10. Can you name one yin quality and one yang quality which describe you?
11. How might being raised in poverty influence someone's personality?
12. Do you think being born in extreme wealth would change your personality? How?
13. If you had been born in another country, do you think your personality would be different? How?
14. Can you think of somebody with a good personality and bad character?
15. What is the difference between one's personality and one's character?
16. Are you primarily an extrovert or an introvert? Why do you say that?
17. Do you think nature (biology) or nurture (our circumstances) are more important in shaping our personalities? Why do you say that?
18. What are your best qualities?

Quotations - Circle the quotations you like.
1. "Know thyself." - Socrates, Greek philosopher
2. "The man of character bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."�- Aristotle 322 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and scientist
3. "This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."�- William Shakespeare, playwright (1564-1616)
4. "Character is much easier kept than recovered."�- Thomas Paine (1737-1809), writer and revolutionary
5. "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), English playwright
6. "Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vice are delightful."�- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French philosopher
7. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.�- Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
8. "The Doc told me that I had a dual personality. Then he lays an $82 bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, "Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy." " - Jerry Lewis (1926-), American comedian
9. "I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property." - Norman O. Brown (1913-2002), American scholar
10. "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." - Erich Fromm (1900-1980), American psychologist
11. "I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward. The example of great and fine personalities is the only thing that can lead us to fine ideas and noble deeds. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi with the money bags of Carnegie?"�- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Nobel Prize winner in Physics
12. "Generous people are rarely mentally ill people."� - Karl Menninger (1893-1990) American psychiatrist

On your own: What do you like about yourself? Write a postcard to a stranger, which celebrates yourself and your strongest traits.