Iyer, Prakash
“I am like this only” vs “I would like to be like that”.
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ISSN 0973-778
Abstract
He is made to be a mathematician.” “She is a saint.” “This boy is artistic, but fickle. He can’t help it.” We say these things often about people
around us, and we are not merely labelling them, we are identifying their nature by considering some ways of thinking and behaving as
essential to them. ‘Their character’ is a simpler and polite term. The term is disconcerting because it has a sense of permanence to it. Habits
can go away, but character remains. Occasionally, our responses in some particular situations might be different from our usual habit, but
our character remains the same…so we think.
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