how does your personality change as you get older. Essay Everybody knows that our personality is inherited to some degree. But can we say that we are the same person in old age as we were in adolescence? I am sure that compared to my younger self my personality is hardly recognizable. During our life, you acquire experience (wisdom if you are lucky). In my view, it is like that: while some core character traits and values have stuck with me throughout the entire life – like the fact that I am an introvert – I have defiantly become stronger, wiser, and to this day I continue developing into the person I would like to be. During the early years of my life, most of my time was spent with my family. It was my parents who taught me how to act, how to cooperate with other people. Consequently, I was extremely dependent and did not have much choice. However, once I enter my teenage years I started my own way towards adulthood. My social circle expanded and exerted greater influence. I have to make my own decisions and take responsibilities. Eventually, it made me more responsible, more broad-minded. Moreover, I became more independent; I spent less time with my parents and more with my friends. Teenagers are often quick-tempered sometimes even cruel so interacting with my friends showed me the competitive side of life and taught me to be thick-skinned. Undoubtedly all of my experience are constantly changing me and modifications to my personality are inevitable.