Actual psychology: personality comes mostly from genes plus noise. Psych-adjacent fields (life coaching, self-help, New Age therapies): personality comes from unresolved childhood trauma & maladaptive parenting. The persistence of Freudianism never ceases to astound me.
There's not actually very compelling evidence that peer groups shape personality -- although it was a reasonable hypothesis 20 years ago.
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That would make total sense, but weirdly doesn't seem to happen very much. Here's my argument about it: https://www.primalpoly.com/s/2007-genetics-personality.pdf …
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The non-shared environment is a slightly elusive concept, don't you think?
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