How do adults personalities change as they get older?

Answer 1

we all change...it's up to us how...some dont forgive others so they grow old and bitter, angry and very negitive towards life. Others learn from their mistakes and improve themselves and grow old happy and content. Still others make no effort so they just grow old.

Answer 2

Some call it maturing, some call it growing up. As we get older we have lifes experiences as reference, and we begin to compare this knowledge with the lies and bs that is being fed to us.

Students are for change, protest, socialism, reactionary, and tend to be more activist. Their attitudes are fueled by the society they see the most of, such as teachers, professors, t.v., movies, etc, which all cater towards the leftist ideals. In otherwords, our kids are brainwashed to think left. As we grow, or mature, most people begin to see thru this and naturally move more towards the center and the right. The right is not pretty, but it is real. The left is for the dreamer or the idealist. Its complety fake and false.

Our personalities change as our attitude towards lfe changes. Older people do not obsess themselves with sex as much as the youth. Been there done that. Older people are not as gullible towards things such as "style", cuz we realize for the stylists it is just business. They are trying to make a buck, and dont really care how stupid kids dress today. Adults taste in music changes when we realize how many musicians are really sell outs, again just looking out for themselves, and not true artists. Just follow the money train. Adults work like slaves, while the youth of today have never had it so good. Once they feel the weight of the stone, attitudes rapidly change. Kids, mortgages, cars, toys, our changing bodies all combine to change our personalitites. The once skinny girl becomes obese, and the guys no longer drool over her, that changes personality. Many factors. We no longer see ourselves as the center of the universe. We begin to see our mortality, and realizing our eventual death changes the way we see life.

Answer 3

Well there are numerous things that contribute to personality changes. For the most part, our personalities are set when we're younger. However, traumatic/dramatic events can alter ones personality. As for adults; if their personality is changing, it's more of their behavior I would say. They might be more calm about things, or stressed out about things. Less wild or adventurous, but that has nothing to do with their personality. It's behavior. An adults personality may alter due to their environment, or an environment change. Other than that, for the most part, ones personality is set at a young age, unless traumatic events alter it.

Answer 4

Mood swings even out. Adults are usually more in control of their emotions then they were as a teen. Adults pause and consider things, rather than just react.

Short term thinking is replaced with thinking about the longer term & the bigger picture.

Adults think more about others generally; most teens tend to be self-centered. Kids tend to view themselves as the center of everything, and as they mature they start to realise they're not.

Adults should be willing to take on the responsibility for things, even if its something really unpleasant.

Answer 5

For the most part they do not.

I know you will not like that answer - but research has shown that from about the age of 12 onward a person't personality is pretty stable and static.

It CAN be changed, but most people do not exert the energy necessiary to affect that change.

People DO grow, and learn, and adapt, and learn new ways of relating to, and reacting to the world - but personality for the most part does not change.

Answer 6

That depends on a great many things...

In our culture aging is a thing to be avoided at all costs...

but there are others...not westerners...who believer...think and live quiet differently than we do...

The HUnza who live in a remote region of Pakistan


have a beautiful take on dealing with life and aging...



"We are the happiest people in the world," the Mir (King) of Hunza told Renee
Taylor for the book Hunza Health Secrets. "We have just enough of everything
but not enough to make anyone else want to take it away. You might call this
'the happy land of just enough.'" Hunza is a land that has enough of what it
needs because the people don't ask for much, and because no one else wants
it badly enough to fight for it.

The people there live long, happy, productive lives partly because they don't
concern themselves much with time and age. This frees them from the hurry
and worry that comes with alternately trying to rush time and hold it back --
both most fruitless and frustrating exercises. The people of Hunza have a
grace that comes from flowing with time rather than trying to control it.

Renee Taylor writes, "Time is not measured by clocks or calendars (in Hunza).
Time is judged by the changing of the seasons, and each season brings the
feeling of newness, not a fear that time is slipping irrevocably away.

"In the West, on the other hand, where lives are dominated by clocks and
calendars, we tend to view each passing moment as a little piece of life which
has cruelly slipped away from us, never to return. Each such slipping bit of
time brings us closer to old age and ultimately to death. We worry so much
about growing old that we actually increase the process."

In Hunza, a person's life divides into three periods, the Mir says: "The young
years, the middle years, and the rich years. In the young years, there is
pleasure and excitement and the yearning for knowledge. In the middle years,
there is the development of poise and appreciation, along with the pleasures,
the excitement and the yearnings of the young years. In the rich years -- by
far the best period of all -- there is mellowness, understanding, the ability to
judge and the great gift of tolerance -- all of this combined with the qualities
of the two previous periods.

"The keynote of life is growth, not aging. Life does not grow old. The life that
flows through us at 80 is the same that energized us in infancy. It does not
get old or weak. So-called age is the deterioration of enthusiasm, faith to live
and the will to progress."

The Mir adds, "Here, there is time to think only of the necessary things. To
worry over such an intangible thing as the ticking of a clock or the turning of
a page on a calendar, this is foolishness."


There is no such thing as retirement in Hunza. A Hunzakut works all his life,
because if he doesn't he doesn't eat. But far from being necessary drudgery,
it is a joy for the Hunzakut to work. Nearly all of them are farmers. They
spend long days scraping small amounts of food from the rocky slopes.
They're up before dawn and don't come home from the fields until the sun is
setting, stopping only twice during the day.

The people of Hunza can work this way -- often for a hundred years straight
-- because of the way they look at and pace their work. Renee Taylor says,
"Perhaps aside from the magnificent nutrition of the Hunzakuts (mainly
coarse, stone-ground wheat flour and apricots), their mental attitude (is) the
key to their extraordinary longevity."

They believe that without work, a person is as good as dead. "From the day a
Hunzakut is born," the Mir says, "he is never coddled. He keeps active until
the day he dies... The idleness of retirement is a much greater enemy to life
than work. Our people continue to work by choice."

Renee Taylor observes that "the ability to relax is at the bottom of everything.
Watch the Hunza people at work or at rest. They are completely relaxed,
completely at ease." This is because they don't fight their work. They enjoy it.



Now that is beautiful...hope this helps...peace.

Answer 7

learning by doing
learning by failing
learning by trying and undergoing

changing is having learnt some things.
Learning is having to change.

If you dont change after having learnt, you havent really been learning.

Answer 8

its maturity in one sense and in another they either get more tolerant of this world or begin to hate it more or lose feelings with it, its all about their own lives and what they have been through...

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

People eaither mellow out or go out of our minds. :)