One of the oldest debates that is around when it come to psychology is the argument of nature versus nurture. The debate of nature versus nurture comes down to the idea of wether peoples individual personalities arise from the way that they were raised and the environment that they were raised in, or if each person’s personality is different from when they were born. Many studies have been conducted on this age old debate and both sides have come down to the decision that it is neither nature nor nurture that solely determine your personality, and in the end it is a mixture of both of them that determines one’s personality. For each person, one might have a bigger impact then the other, but everyone’s personality is a combination of the two.

To me, my brother and I are a great demonstration of the debate of nature and nurture. My brother and I, where raised by the same two parents, in the same household, and had the same rules/guidelines while growing up. Since we are only a few years apart, we both attended that same family events and holidays, and went through the same big events while growing up. Even though we lived such a similar life, we both turned out to be completely different people.

For me, I am a very “type A” person, I am very organized, strict, and live a seriously structured lifestyle which helps me get everything I have to do done in an organized timely matter. On the other hand, my brother is the complete opposite, he is definitely a “type B” person. He gets things done when he has to, and doesn’t plan out what needs to be done in the future. He lives with very little stress, and is definitely, and “go with the flow” person. We really do live two completely different life styles.

We both grow up the same exact way and yet we turned out to be completely different. So if there was something that I had to pick to explain why we turned out differently then each other, I would have to say that nature is the reason why. Nature has to be true, because we even though for the majority of our lives we were the same, we turned out to be completely different people with different thoughts, personalities, and emotions. If nurture was the case for us, we would be much more similar and have the same thoughts and opinions.

In out case nature is the reason why we are different despite are very similar experiences while growing up. This might not be the case for everyone, but in my case when it comes to my brother and I, nature explains are situation while nurture does not.