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To: greenspirit who wrote (36479)	8/29/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Can people change? Can they grow into different people than they were in their youth?>> I would agree with you, Michael, that people can change their values, and rather drastically at that. I think it is much harder to change one's basic temperament. In my observation, temperament is more a given of Nature than a product of Nurture. Thus, I would say that although it can be modified, it cannot be changed altogether. Hence, there is always going to be some continuity of personality in any given individual, however much his/her values may change over time. Just my take. Joan

To: greenspirit who wrote (36479)	8/29/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't disagree that people can change dramatically at all- or what a mess we would be, stuck forever in our five year old brains, but I do think that a great deal of the personality is formed very, very early in life. Certainly the ability to trust, to love, to relate, springs from the primary relationships with a caregiver and affects all future relationships. It's very difficult to alter the beliefs that you were taught early in life. (Hence that old Catholic saying- "Give me a child until he's seven....) But we thankfully, have the ability to reason, to learn, to change, and even to impose by will new behaviors on top of old.