What Factors Influenced You To Become Who You Are?

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What factors influenced you to become who you are? The personal factors include childhood experience, knowledge and education, personality and self-construal, sense of control, values, political and world views, goals, felt responsibility, cognitive biases, place attachment, age, gender and chosen activities.

What are the 7 factors that can influence?

  • Character – Who They Are. “True leadership always begins with the inner person.” …
  • Relationships – Who They Know. …
  • Knowledge – What They Know. …
  • Intuition – What They Feel. …
  • Experience – Where They’ve Been. …
  • Past Success – What They’ve Done. …
  • Ability – What They Can Do.

How do you write an essay about a person who has influenced you?

Focus on the influence, not the person.

The exact wording of the question is, “

Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence

.” The subtext there is that you shouldn’t spend the entire essay describing why this person is so wonderful.

Who has influenced your life and how?


My mother

is the person who has influenced my life . She is the person who taught me to never give up and to always keep my head up. She has made the person I am today. Without my mom I would have never learned how to be a friend or how to show compassion to another person.

What are examples of influences?

  • Society. The systems, norms and shared meaning of a nation or civilization. …
  • Culture. Culture are systems of norms and shared meaning that often have far more flexible membership than society. …
  • Social Status. …
  • Cultural Capital. …
  • Knowledge. …
  • Education. …
  • Storytelling. …
  • Media.

Overall, genetics has more influence than parents do on shaping our personality.

Molecular genetics

is the study of which genes are associated with which personality traits. The largely unknown environmental influences, known as the nonshared environmental effects, have the largest impact on personality.

  1. Ask a Beautiful Question. …
  2. Create a plan to be a good listener. …
  3. Welcome disagreements. …
  4. Focus only on what really matters. …
  5. Build a plan for being proactive. …
  6. Set a powerful vision. …
  7. Use your influence to bring out the best in others. …
  8. Increase your value through education.

Self-concept is widely conceptualized as multidimensional (Shavelson et al., 1976). The Five-Factor Self-Concept Questionnaire (AF5, García and Musitu, 2009) assesses five specific dimensions (i.e.,

academic, social, emotional, family, and physical

).

The four factors of self-esteem are

uniqueness, connection, power, and control

. Along with these four factors, we also have our developmental assets and protective factors. Each of these factors can heavily impact a person ‘s self-esteem.

There are many factors that influenced us to become who we are today – including

our parents, sisters/brothers/siblings, friends, acquaintances and even our religion

. When we were young, our parents became our role model in doing good deeds.

The most influential person in my life is

my dad

. My mom has influenced me too, but my dad has inspired me with his work ethic and caring for others. He has always been a hard worker, and wanted to do the best job possible. I strive for this in my life.

Influence essays are

about a real or fictional character who has had significant influence on your life

. This might be a relative, friend, coworker, musician, writer, or someone in history. Fictional characters could be people described in songs, through poetry or other writings and art.


He helped me with my education and has devoted his life to properly raise me

. My father is an exemplary person who has led an honest life. As a high ranking government officer, he had many chances to pile up the riches, but he had always known what was the right thing to do.

Positive influence is

the impact you have on another person (AND yourself) by pointing out strengths and virtues

. It is how you are, what you do, and the power you have on others to value what is best within themselves.

There are

three main influences

on personality development that we are going to look at in this lesson. Those are heredity, environment, and situation. Heredity: This refers to the influences on your personality that you are born with. They are in your genes and there is not much you can do to change these traits.

What kinds of influences make one person different from another? Influences on development come from both

heredity and environment

. Many typical changes during childhood are related to maturation. Individual differences increase with age.

  1. Be quiet. …
  2. Realize who you truly are, not who you want to be. …
  3. Find what you are good at (and not good at). …
  4. Find what you are passionate about. …
  5. Ask for feedback. …
  6. Assess your relationships.


Our culture shapes the way we work and play, and it makes a difference in how we view ourselves and others

. It affects our values—what we consider right and wrong. This is how the society we live in influences our choices. But our choices can also influence others and ultimately help shape our society.

Leah Jackson
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Leah is a relationship coach with over 10 years of experience working with couples and individuals to improve their relationships. She holds a degree in psychology and has trained with leading relationship experts such as John Gottman and Esther Perel. Leah is passionate about helping people build strong, healthy relationships and providing practical advice to overcome common relationship challenges.