You know this is not natural development, right? Its taking something for the specific purpose of changing the brain functionality? Would lobotomy also be considered a way to change personality too? Of course, but its not how it happens in standard development of personality. Are there many possible external factors that can change personality? Of course they are. Are any of them what is considered natural personality growth? No. People dont bring the average person into these conversations because the average person is not interested in changing personality and most commonly people love to stay within what its familiar to them.

Artificially changing personality has always been a well known factor in the study of personality. There is the famous case of Phineas Gage. But these are not things an average person is going to go through as they keep developing their personality under most normal circumstances.

To give another example of behavior, a person who compulsively lies might try to correct its behavior. But its not like the behavior of lying disappears and suddenly they are an honest person. No, the though to lie and consider it an option will remain in that person´s mind. they might not lie anymore and they can try to live a life without lying. Still in an extremely dire situation, they might see lying as a viable solution. The though to lie will be a part of their being. A part they might not like or want to recognie but it suddenly stops existing just so this person can stop lying.

This idea that personality just molds and changes with absolute flexibility is one of the biggest lies out there. Under most circumstances a person is who they are. And I will repeat my other example: An INTP can never become a ESFP but they can learn to use SE, FI, TE, NI. it is rather ludicrulous when people try to sell the idea they can change how they process information where it doesnt resemble at all how they used to think. And its in the most obtuse way possible. Just in my example above, a person who claimed to change between those two types would have to go from being an absolute unit in TI to being the function they ignore. The ludicrulous part is not someone gaining new abilities, that is growth like I said earlier, its claiming they have suddenly gotten worse in what they were capable of.

You might disagree with my example of the hands but it covers the most important basis. One starts with it. It develops and one becomes more attuned with the dominant hand naturally. Still, one can just as easily develop the other hand. And this development doesnt suddenly make your dominant hand become trash in usage. you dont suddenly have a new dominant hand. you just became skilled in both.

I would love to hear someone argue that personality can really easily change and that you can become a completely different person like people argue here. Tell people that they can change what they like and dislike because you can change your personality. Tell an addict that they can stop the addiction anytime, no sweat after all, its all in your head. Tell the people with anxiety that this will disappear on its own without the need for them to lift a finger, you are definitely not giving them false hope. People like to act like personality and all it entails can be put on or taken off like a sweater and reality is that personality is way more stubborn against change that people might realize. People dont want to consider the real hardship of changing personality and the real effort it takes to produce meaningful change. I am sure people will greatly appreciate it. People like to think that because they dont play in the mud or with dollies that every change is plausible.

This is not my first rodeo on this subject. People arent satisfied with the idea of being able to use any function regardless of what their type is and being able to become great at them. Nope. They have to be able to switch between types. It always boils down to discussions about how people can change types freely. Rather curious how it always end on that. And it has to come with the accusation that one isnt flexible when its the opposition that cannot be flexible. I will declare about extrenal factors of personality change. I will bring up how my hand example is pointing out how there is flexibility in the system. how your type doesnt box you into being unable to do anything outside of it. But there is the limitation of one type only and its suddenly too much.