Personality at its finest

I found Psychology to be a very interesting and extremely benefical class for me to take. I am going to school to have a career in counceling and many, many things that we have learned in class can in some way pertain to my career. I found the chapter on personality to be one of the most interesting subjects, and found that much of the information will be helpful in my future career. In lecture we learned the definition of personality is distinctive characteristic patterns of
thought, emotion, and behavior that uniquely define an individual. There are two concepts of personality, nomothetic and idiographic. Nomothetic talks about how everyone has certain traits that are similar across all people to some degree, and idographic is talking about unique attributes that you cant compare across people. This topic really drew me in and got me thinking. It makes perfect sense what these two topics are saying because there has to be some similarity in traits among people or we would never be able to function as a society. On the same note though we are, in fact, our own self and everyone is an individual. We may all have some similar traits, but it is also very obvious that many people are extremely different from one another. This gets me interested in looking farther into it.