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The personality's receipts — proof you keep doing the thing, even when you swore you'd change.
means A distinguishing quality or characteristic that belongs to someone or something, especially a durable bit of personality.
from From French trait, meaning a line, stroke, or feature — itself from Latin tractus, 'a drawing out,' from trahere, 'to drag or pull.' The same root gave English 'tract,' 'traction,' and 'treaty.' A trait, then, is etymologically a 'pulled line' — picture a single stroke drawn across a face or a character, a mark pulled out from the whole that stands for it.
- origin
- from Latin tractus, meaning something drawn or pulled
- nature vs nurture
- genes load the gun, environment pulls trigger
- big five
- psychologists narrowed all of personality to five traits
- stability myth
- traits shift more across life than people admit