The connection between your personality and your aptitude are very strongly connected to each other.
Aptitude is defined as a component of competency that is innate, learned, or developed. This is in regards to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. There is physical aptitude, mental aptitude, and spiritual aptitude. However, it is mainly focused on both physical and mental aptitude. Innate aptitude is the understanding of knowledge or ability in a certain skill.
Where does personality play a role in one’s aptitude? Personality plays a critical role in how you apply your aptitude. How you think plays a crucial way on your aptitude to just about anything whether if it is mental or physical. There are certain times in which you need both your mental and physical aptitude. Your personality plays a crucial role in how you think. Your personality plays a role on what type of person you are. What type of person you are dictates your aptitude on a physical and mental level.
There are several examples I can bring up. These are examples that had caused me much unneeded and unnecessary grief. But, there are several people I have met whose aptitudes I must question.
About two years ago, I had “befriended” this one boy on this role-playing game. The boy was very much into the way of the ninja. He would rant on and on about how he wants to be a ninja master. But, I had to question is mental and physical aptitude for it. Overall, I had come to the conclusion he had neither the mental nor physical aptitude for it. His personality had played a huge role in that.
As a person that has trained in the martial arts, I came to give him advice. But, he threw it back in my face. At the end, I was like, “the boy has no business being a ninja and he is wasting money on ninja lessons.” The boy was incredibly hyperactive and obnoxious. Apparently, he has been watching way too much “Naruto” and playing way too much “Ninja Gaiden.” Naruto and Ninja Gaiden are not exactly the best examples of portraying the way of the ninja.
Nin-jitsu is a style based off of stealth. Most of the training in special operations forces across the world is derived from Nin-jitsu training. He thought of everything in a direct and brute force type of manner. The boy would be better suited for being a samurai; but, a ninja was way out of the question.
He wanted to become faster.
I told him that he needed to jog and do more cardio exercises in order to tone down his muscles. The boy explained to me he had bulky muscles.
Apparently, he did not want to give up his bulky muscles. He lacked the physical aptitude of Nin-Jitsu. The boy liked to solve everything with brute force. However, Nin-Jitsu is not really a style that is based off of brute force. He would be more suited to take up Japanese Jiu-Jitsu.
Last year, I had opened up my own role-playing board. It is a role-playing game in the form of a message board. While it was something I did on my free time, it was serious work being the administrator of the place. I would be dealing with at least twenty to thirty members on a regular basis.
Looking at players’ actions, I got a good glimpse of their personalities and their respective aptitudes.
They responded different to certain actions and events. By the way they role-played I had gotten a glimpse of their mental and physical aptitudes.
Apparently, they did not really possess the mental and physical aptitude for actual combat.
However, my board was in a certain genre of role-play. The other boards before mine had failed. Mine ended up failing due to circumstances out of my control. Due to my personality, I have this hunger for knowledge.
I constantly read up the news and learn new things. I have broadened my horizons. Because of that, I was able to flag and point out problems that plagued the role-play boards.
In combat, a person’s personality plays a role in his/her combat aptitude. It determines how a person will fight. Will the person rely solely on offense, a mix of offense or defense, or just pure defense? A reckless person will rely on complete offense and possibly execute a kamikaze burst of punches and kicks before burning out. A more intelligent person may keep his/her pace in a fight. A stoic person will probably rely purely on defense.
Overall, your personality plays a role on your different types of aptitudes. The aptitudes of one personality will differ from the aptitudes of another personality. One personality may think out of the box and the other personality will solely rely on purely conventional means.
