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The recurring pattern others can predict and you keep insisting isn't a pattern.
means The stable set of traits, habits, and emotional tendencies that make how a person thinks and behaves recognizably their own.
from From Latin persona, the mask worn by stage actors — so your personality is literally the face the play hands you, mistaken for the self underneath.
The Big FivePsychologists measure it on five trait dimensions.
Roman maskPersona meant a theater mask, not a soul.
Mostly fixedCore traits stabilize sharply after age thirty.