Thoughts on Lecture 1

The first lecture this week was based around individualism and Positioning, its origins and how it implicates each person in their everyday lives.

Tina introduced the concept of a multi faceted personality vs a fixed one. It has allowed me to question the very nature of a personality. I have always thought of a personality as being traits that a person possesses, but the very idea of a multiple personality insinuates that a person will act and display different traits to the different company they keep. For example I will act very differently with my friends, than I would if I am at work. I would perhaps hold back on the things I would say to work colleagues, and therefore they will hold a completelty different view of my personality than my friends.
My friends may say that I am out-going, spontaneous and randomly creative, whereas my work colleagues may hold the opinion that I am hard working, conscientious and not so out-going.

I now question the idea of individualism and am more inclined to positioning. Where people are defined as the positions they occupy. It has allowed me to understand that I am continuously changing as a result of the people I meet and the conversations I hold.

From gaining this knowledge and accepting that I have a multi-faceted personality, I am not the same person as I was yesterday, nor will I be the next day or the one after that.