Smile Sim

“Little calls this phenomenon Free Trait Theory: the idea that while we have certain fixed bits of personality, we can act out of character in the service of core personal goals. The key, he explains, is balancing three equal but very different identities. There’s our mostly inborn personality, the one that wants us to be introverted or extroverted; that’s the biogenic identity. There are the expectations of our culture, family and religion—the sociogenic identity. And then there are our personal desires and our sense of what matters—the ideogenic identity. An”
― Brian Walsh, The Upside of Being an Introvert