Discussion Post to Theories of Personality (11-26-11).

We have to examine and educate ourselves in our own mental symbols and phenomena to align them with the behaviors of successful people we hope to become. Self-regulation allows us to "reprogram" the information in our minds after we discern the worthiness of our own self-created and self-accumulated information against other more functional and efficient "prototypes", or sources of idealized representatives that our culture produces. We are what we can learn and how well we can apply the qualities of information we accrue.