PERSONALITY vs CHARACTER The main difference between persona | The INTELLECTUALS

PERSONALITY vs CHARACTER

The main difference between personality and character is that personality shows what you are outside or what you are to the world whereas character reveals what you are inside.
Personality refers to the behaviour of a person. However, it may or may not show the true character of a person.

In general:
• Personality is highly susceptible to changes whereas character remains the same
• It is quite easy to identify personality through observation while character tends to be difficult to identify
• Personality represents who we seem to be while character represents who we actually are.
• The nature of personality is subjective while the character is objective
• The traits of personality are personal and physical while those of character are moral and mental.

P.S. “Personality is easy to read, and we’re all experts at it. We judge people as funny, extroverted, energetic, optimistic, confident—as well as overly serious, lazy, negative, and shy—if not upon first meeting them, then shortly thereafter. And though we may need more than one interaction to confirm the presence of these sorts of traits, by the time we decide they are, in fact, present, we’ve usually amassed enough data to justify our conclusions.
Character, on the other hand, takes far longer to puzzle out. It includes traits that reveal themselves only in specific—and often uncommon—circumstances, traits like honesty, virtue, and kindliness” (Lickerman, 2011).
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