T. Harv Eker argues that personality is a survival mechanism built in childhood through conditioning from parents, teachers, and media, not your true self. He calls it a recorded tape of assumptions and habits you can change once you become aware of the programming.
You are not your personality. That excuse doesn't wash anymore. This is just the way I am. No, your personality is nothing more than egoic idea you made up as to who you're supposed to be to survive in the world and fit in. Now, there's four critical things you need to remember. Number one, that this way of being or personality was primarily created by you in order to what? Survive, not thrive? Big difference. Number two, this way of thinking and being is based on the assumptions of a very young child. Now, in addition to what we learned from our own experience, we also get conditioned with all the do's and don'ts and rules that other people gave us. Who are some of the people who gave us some of these do's, don'ts and rules? Who are they? Parents, who else? Teacher school. Who else? Church, Religious leaders. Who else? Friends? Media? Absolutely. Good. Absolutely. Now the most important thing, however, to remember. Listen closely here. This could change your life. Is that this programming or information and the personality that you created because of it. It's not the real you. It's not who you are. It's only a recording. Of what? A recording of the information you learned as a child, stored now on tape. And now that tape that what plays unconsciously, automatically and habitually. And you know that tape as the little voice in your head.
