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The word ‘personality’ has many definitions. Personality and the mind are known to some people as ‘unpredictable’. Many have tried to crack its secrets by coming up with various theories. Most people would define ‘personality’ as an individual’s character, or what makes one unique, consisting of a set of characteristics known as traits. This is mostly true, but the proper definition is: personality is an individual’s unique pattern of thoughts and behaviors that persist over time and across situations. I believe that the 2 personality development theories of birth order and Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development best describe how the following personality traits developed in me through various socializing agents: competitive, aggressive, problem-solver and critical. Both theories give a very logical explanation to how my personality traits developed. The birth order theory best describes how the personality traits of competitiveness, aggressiveness and critical thinking developed. The birth order theory, as its name shows, focuses on a pattern of traits that develop for a child, based on its order of birth, ie, the first-born child is supposed to be responsible, dependable, competitive etc, due to the f