Developing a Positive Personality

DEVELOPING A POSITIVE PERSONALITY conditioning. Every person lives in a particular environment. Therefore, every person’s mind is conditioned by his environment, depriving him of right thinking. As a result, people do not remain capable of thinking naturally. Given this conditioning problem, Rousseau’s statement can be better stated: “Man was created on divine nature, but I see him psychologically conditioned.” When a child is born from his mother’s womb, he looks like the epitome of innocence. It seems as if an angel has assumed human form. At the time of birth, man has a pure mind. His thinking is natural thinking that should be the case in reality. However, man is a social being. He has to spend his entire life in a society made by others. Because of this, his mind receives external influences almost every waking moment. This is called ‘conditioning’. This process of being influenced by the external environment keeps increasing until man becomes wholly conditioned. In the quest for truth, the seeker needs to understand this conditioning, and accordingly, he should set about