With youth: Let personality be an expression of your essence

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question (Q): What is personality?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Personality is an expression of your individuality.

What core is to gloss, individuality is to personality. What core is to gloss, what center is to circumference, is individuality to personality. Personality is and must be just a natural, clear, honest expression of what you really really are, your individuality.

So, personality grooming, if it really can mean anything, it can only mean a direct connect between what you are, and what you appear. Personality is what you appear. What you appear should not be different from what you are. This is personality grooming, to bring you yourself closer to yourself. Personality development is essentially self-development. Personality development is about reducing your artificiality and bringing you closer to yourself. Please understand this.

Personality development is not about making you more artificial, it is about reducing your artificiality so that you become authentic, real, true. So that you have deep trust in whatever you are. So that you are never afraid.