Since my graduate school days I have observed children; I observed them from the moment that they are born to when they become adults. What I found is that their personality types are the same from the moment of birth to adulthood. The idea that society determines personality is not based on empirical observation.  Apparently, sociologists and social psychologists observed that society, more or less, tells people what to do and from that observation made the deductive inference that society determines people’s personalities. Personality is determined in the womb and is written in the individual’s genes. 

This paper points out that the white world has no respect for African peoples and in response to this perceived lack of respect for their being African peoples attempt to seem important and in so doing make themselves tense and stressed and incur all kinds of disease from this behavior; it says that for them to live relaxed, peaceful and happy lives that they must accept themselves as they are and not try to seem important so as to live up to their images of what other persons would accept.

People often accuse me of being overly optimistic about life; and they have also predicted that I will suffer intense disillusion because of it someday. I readily agree to the first assertion, but have yet to suffer the dire consequences they anticipate for me in the second. I suppose this outlook--besides being a significant part of my psychological makeup--is also one of the foundations of my political outlook. It represents a classic case of "the glass is half empty vs. the glass is half full" conundrum.

This brief essay delineates what neurosis is and states how to heal it. Neurotics are persons who formed a pattern of questing after ego ideals, a goal that is impossible of attainment. Healing neurosis lies in desisting from seeking ego ideals and accepting the imperfect self and body as they are and making the most of them.