There are as many personality traits as there are human beings.

 

There are as many personality traits as there are human beings. 

 

Some of them have been observed( not necessarily fully understood) and verbalised with certain labels. 

 

Every human being goes through a metamorphosis wherein everything grows and evolves starting from the obviously visible like the physical features and not so obvious attitudes, attributes, and never decipherable intentions - this has given room to a gamut of states of mind like envy, hidden agenda, ulterior motives, simmering discontent, lurking suspicion, undercurrents of identity affinities, overtones of ideologies etc.

 

Most of the personality types that are identifiable and referable have been assigned some verbal label by many philosophers, psychologists, scientific scholars. 

 

These classifications are meant more for easy reference and not necessarily the only types into which human beings are to be classified as there may exist many personality types besides, between and beyond these verbally known or classified ones.

 

This is so because every human being is a multi-faceted or multi-dimensional phenomenon, each dimension having its own inherent dynamics and the dynamics it accumulates when interacting with or relating with other human beings, species, environments, issues, things, trends etc.

 

Therefore, trying to over simplify or over generalise personality types may be a hindrance to proper and unbiased understanding.

 

However, there are some general factors and principles which may be used as an outline for Personality Development. 

 

The following I wrote for a magazine in the 90s, later presented as a mindmap.