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4 Things About Personality You Must Accept to Be a Better Person
Holding the wrong beliefs about personality limits you from growing.
Your beliefs are often the biggest drawback to your ability to grow.
One key area where our beliefs often have the most impact is our personalities—what we think about who we are.
Sometimes, we unconsciously have certain misconceptions about ourselves that limit what we can be or do. Letting go of these beliefs is crucial if we want to be better.
Here are four critical beliefs about personality that you must accept:
Your personality isn’t describable as one pattern called a "type."
A mistake most people make is believing they have a specific personality type that defines who they are.
They think they’re bound to one overriding personality trait that locks them into a state of being.
When people think this way, it can make them feel as if they’re fated to a way of life they change, even when that personality has limitations.
When people think this way, it makes them feel as though they’re stuck with a certain way of being, and they can do nothing to change it. This puts a limit…
