Your lifelong personality
The question many professionals ask is “does my primary personality change during the course of my lifetime”? The answer happens to be “no”. Our primary personality is the same as a child right through retirement. Some people say well I’m more conservative now than I was when I was 30. Or I’m less agressive now than when I was 40. It’s true that we modify behaviors during the course of our life based on events and circumstances we experience. A good example would be the fact that my primary personailty style is one of a multi-tasker and typically this personality type tends to be late for events and meetings. Since the majority of my career has been in the field of sales and sales training, I have disciplined myself to be on time all the time. It would be ridiculous for me to come to my own sales training workshop 30 minutes late.
During our life we go from being single, to getting married, to having kids and eventually retiring. How we view risk, jobs that have travel, how we even drive changes due to these experiences we have in life. How we make decisions even gets modified based on our financial position at the age of 30 versus 50 and 65. Our primary personality says a lot to how we ineract with people, how we make decisions whether slowly or quickly, how we view conflict and confrontation and what motivates us in life. The bottom line is your personality stays with you a lifetime and that is how God has made us.