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Personality
Part 3A
Developing the mind
Many people have a limited understanding of how or when our minds develop. For the most part, conscious
thought processes do not obtain their full capacity until the ages of 4, 5, 6 or 7, which is when reason and logic begin to kick in and we begin seeing the world around us though different eyes.
Up until that point, our minds are tuned in to learning, picking up everything we can. During this time, your subconscious mind is pretty much
running the whole show. Things don't make logical sense at this point in life and reality will not have clearly defined boundaries. In fact part of the way we judge the maturity level of adults by how well we
deal with our definitions of reality. Those who do not have a real clear understanding or ability to respond to this will be judged as being immature.
Now it's been estimated that 80% of all we will learn is done in the first 6-7 years of our life. Now we are not talking about the schooling and
education we receive later on. This 80% is our learning how we respond, react, and behave with the world outside us. It becomes the structure of who we are, whether we respond first to pessimism or optimism,
possibilities or necessity, or how we process information. This is also a time of our life were we may decide what we are capable of, whether we are confident or reserved, or whether we can trust people or not
and how easy it is for us to let go of those things that hurt us. In essence, we develop the process of our personality and how we respond to the world, and like all processes, they not only can be changed, they
are constantly doing so, for the better or the worse.
It is here the quality of our life is established. While we cannot change the events we've experienced, we can certainly change how we feel about
them and we each have the ability to do so. The challenge is tapping into the correct sequence of changes you need to improve your life
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