austinkleon:

File under “Science telling us what folk wisdom has told us forever”:

“We remain recognizably the same person,” said study author Christopher Nave, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside. “This speaks to the importance of understanding personality because it does follow us wherever we go across time and contexts.”

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Personality is “a part of us, a part of our biology,” Nave said.

I’ve written before:

I’m much closer to the person I wanted to be when I was 10 than when I was 20. I think that’s a good thing.

Yeah I believe it.