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Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday morning. I wonder if there's

any part of you that you struggle with. I think most of us have parts of our, whether

you think about it as personality or character, that we're not altogether comfortable with.

I was chatting to a close friend the other day and they were talking to me about the aspects

of themselves that they struggled with and it was interesting as they described some

of the things I actually thought were really beautiful but for them it was a struggle.

And we got into this conversation around what's personality and what's character and what's

kind of part of our nature and maybe one of those things that we learn and that evolve

over time as part of our conditioned existence and human beings. It's easy to get caught

up in semantics around personality and character but by character I mean the nature that we're

born with. If you look at a young child, even a baby, you can see it has a character.

If you line babies up, not that I've ever done this, but if you line babies up next to

each other and look at them, you can see they're different somehow. And they haven't

really had time to take on any conditioning and yet their character, their essential character

is different. Some lie there very quietly, some are very noisy, some laugh a lot, some

cry a lot. There's just a difference in character. In terms of personality I think over time,

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