What is personality???????

What is personality ? Many learned people have tried to answer the question,and many have not been able to . The search for personality is no more mordern quest.It is as old as man.
Dr Newman L.Hoopingarner,professor of business psychology in the school of commerce of New York University, defines personality as the sum total of all one's qualities and character ,as they act and interact to affect other people.
Personality , briefly ,means one's total self.
The first step towards improving ones personality is to "Know Thyself".But ,then,are we really eager to know our true self ? we are all sublimes egotists; we camouflage our faults, even from ourselves. we have an idealized picture of our own nature and seek to cover up our shortcomings not only from the outside world , but from our own inner self. "Knowing oneself" means an effort to improve on our shortcomings and weaknesses through self-study.
IF YOU ARE NOT SURE THAT YOUR DEVELOPMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL,THEN READ THESE LINES:
"We are all blind until we see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making if
It does not make the man.
why build these cities glorious
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the work, unless
The builder also grows."