Is it possible to change the character and qualities of a person?

Sometimes you hear this phrase: "What can I do, I have this character." Often unscrupulous, lazy or passive people tend to write off their shortcomings on "the character that got from birth." But can this be done? What is character? Can you change it to make your own life (or the life of others) better?

The character of a person is a whole complex of relatively stable properties of the psyche that determine the individuality of one's personality, its behavior and relations with the surrounding world. It is the character that determines the image and style of life, behavior, relationships.

At the core of the character are personal qualities. They define the four main groups that shape the character.

The first group includes such qualities of a person as the attitude towards society, people around them. The notions of collectivism-individualism, sensitivity-callousness, sociability-isolation are not only called the qualities inherent in a particular person, but also largely determine the attitude of others towards it.

The qualities that unite in the second group, show the relationship of a person (person) to work. These include laziness, diligence, a penchant for routine work or creative work, initiative or passivity, responsibility and conscientiousness.

In the third group, experts unite the qualities of a person, showing how he treats himself. This includes self-esteem, pride, self-criticism, modesty and their antipodes: complacency, arrogance, egocentrism or selfishness, shyness.

Finally, in the last, but not less important group, philosophers and psychologists combine qualities that characterize the person's attitude to material goods and things. Non-compliance and accuracy, negligence and frugality have a great impact on a person's life.

From this systematics it can be seen that any quality of character can be changed. But it is impossible to change only one chosen quality: they are all interconnected. For example, you can not get rid of your own falsity or rudeness, ignoring the attitude towards others, fixating on your egocentrism.

The character of a person can be holistic and harmonious or impetuous and contradictory. These are the characteristics of people. But you can change the character by working systematically on yourself.

In order to determine the character of a person, to make up its characteristics, philosophers divided the moral qualities of a person into several groups.

Positive moral qualities:

• Humanism, humanity - respect for human rights, its dignity, attitude to any person as the highest value.
• Honor, conscience, nobility and some other social concepts associated with a positive assessment of the individual.
• Justice is the correlation of rights and duties, deeds and rewards.

Negative moral qualities:

• Swagger, cynicism, rudeness - putting on the first place of their qualities, disdainful attitude to others.
• Parasitism is the desire to live at the expense of others.
• Nihilism - the denial of spiritual or cultural values, the meaningfulness of human existence, the non-recognition of any authority or rule.

Socially useful moral qualities:

• Will, determination - the ability to make decisions, act, guide your thoughts, deeds, aspirations.
• Wisdom is the ability to evaluate one's own qualities, to correlate them with the acquired experience and knowledge.
• Beliefs, patriotism - the readiness to completely subordinate their interests to the requirements of the Motherland, the readiness to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the Fatherland.

These and other qualities of a person make up his character. A person working on himself is able to independently develop his character.