Chapter 6

Personability Dimension

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.”

– Benjamin Franklin

This is an area of self-development that is relatively new in terms of scientific study. Personability is the ability to personalize or to take personally what occurs around us. The phrase know thyself is synonymous with personability, and self-aware is a term that some scientists currently use. The term intrapersonal is frequently used in the social science literature to describe this ability to communicate with oneself, whereas interpersonability refers to one’s ability to communicate with others.

The goal of personability is self-improvement through self-awareness. That is probably why public speaking is ...

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