Our skiing is characterized by our own way of being and behaving. Personality refers to the usual, repeated, and relatively stable pattern of our behaviors, i.e. a certain way of behaving. This is partly due to our biological inheritance and partly to learning ways of acting. Understanding our own personality helps to identify behaviors and habits that impact positively or negatively on our skiing.
Personality is formed in our childhood according to inherited genes and social environment. The combination of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors make up the personality that makes us unique skiers, revealing our characteristics, capabilities, and our potentialities, thus constituting our individuality that distinguishes us among other skiers.
Personality manifests itself in every way of proceeding. At every moment we adjust our systems of action according to experiences, attitudes, reactions, and reflexes oriented in the search for a certain harmony in the face of the demands of the environment.
There is a tendency to divide personality into three strata: our instincts as hereditary components that make up the vegetative psychic functions. These have the following characteristics: they are specific since they constitute a certain behavior; they are innate since we receive them already constituted; they are fixed since it is not possible to perfect them; and they are specialized in fulfilling a certain act and accomplish their purpose even when conditions change.
Our temperament, which comprises the feelings and the tendencies oriented towards an end by means of the partially voluntary actions configuring the lower psychic functions.
Our character, which comprises thought, intelligence, and the capacity for adaptation through our conscious orientation of actions to that end. This is the variable and fragile but elevated part of our personality recognized as a higher psychic function.
Conclusions
- Our personality is the sum of inherited biological dispositions, drives, and instincts, as well as acquired tendencies and dispositions that include emotions, thoughts, risk taking, and sensation seeking in a mountain context.
- The reflection of our personality in a defined environment is our behavior.
- Our personality influences the way stress is generated in skiing and environmental situations are managed.
- Each one of us has different skiing experiences and this is due to our different personalities types.
