Blogging Personality

Birth order is something I find very relevant to my personality.
Upon discussing birth order in the text and in class, I pulled out an old favorite... "Perfect Match." It's a book about finding the "perfect" mate, and it relies on birth order theories. I looked into middle children, and a main emphasis was that middle children often try to imitate the parent they admire. They also try to recieve attention by acting like their parent in order to impress them.

My mom is my role model and always has been. She's had a rough ride and is still the strongest, most organized, driven, caring person I know. It dawned on me after completing my Big 5 test that my results matched her personality...a lot! We've been told we're very much alike, my results of having a disagreeableness, conscientiousness, high-strung personality verified that! So, I think subconsciously trying to imitate or impress my mother throughout the years has shaped my personality to be more like hers than it would have otherwise been.

I usually don't find the lectures on the text helpful because I read the chapter in depth ahead of time, and the lectures usually just re-iterate what I've already learned. However, I did enjoy the Moral Psychology video. The comparison between various countries concering the 5 foundations we enter the world with at birth (Ingroup, harm, purity, fairness, and authority) was really interesting. Most countries agreed that harm and fairness were important, but the difference came between the liberals and conservatives when questioning the other 3 foundations. The speaker's adaptation of what the greatest wonder of the worlsd was was very interesting also. He thought that people living together within the 5 foundations and finding ways to respect and work together in testing places and climates was the greatest wonder, not the grand canyon. I have to say, I agree!