Journal 22 - Factors of development of the personality; my personal scribble

The unit 8 untitled The Twin Question: Nature or Nurture? placed in the handbook Focus on Grammar and Integrated Skills approach, third edition, 2006, provoked me to express my point o view about factors of development of the personality. In the mentioned article author described two main factors: nature and nurture. The term nurture is implied by the author as to rear, bring up, care for, foster and train.
I consider that we have more factors which create our personality. There are: inborn traits (heredity), environment (natural and social), education (author’s nurture), and own activity.
It is a banal statement that people are different. What determinate a development of the personality? Scientists didn’t agree in this matter. Some of them consider that a development of the personality is determined by genetic equipment. It was the nativistic theory. The opponents stated that the most important is an environment. They represented the sociologic theory. These two theories were extremely different and unilateral. Only two examples: the French lady Edith Piaf was born in slumps and she became one of the most famous singers in the world. Taras Shevchenko was born in the slave family, but he became the most remarkable poet in Ukrainian history.
Followers of both above theories were trying to reconcile followers of the third theory. Its name is the theory of the convergence. It overcame faults of the both previous theories, exactly “surmount”. It’s the more adequate term, because “surmount” has a different meaning than the word “combine”. How I said, the third theory isn’t a simple sum of both previous. The convergence theory says that the development of the personality is determined by genetic equipment and an environment.
The next factors which decide “who we are” or “who is who” are: education and our individual activity. About these two factors we can prepare the next journal.