According to depressive symptoms, Kendler and Gardner have recently reported that personality and failures in interpersonal relationships play a stronger etiologic role in major depression for women than for men in a co-twin study that matched sisters and brothers on genetic and familial-environmental backgrounds [ 48].
His failure is due largely to his personality, but it is not simply a personal failure.
My mom was very much a Type A personality who took dying of cancer as a personal failure.
Stuff happens while you're in graduate school--all the stuff listed above as well as experimental failures, personality conflicts, bad advisors, co-workers behaving badly, health problems, money problems, breakups, family problems, and--occasionally--disasters of epic proportions; just ask those grad students at--or, rather, who used to be at Xavier or Tulane.
Then she goes on to blame an inability to self-reflect and an optimistic personality for his failures as a politician: "It was his stock-in-trade to 'forget' facts that interfere with his perception of himself as pure in motive and true to his word".
In a sealed-off suite of eight brooding songs of confessional folk, McCombs presents an introspective mind grappling with romantic failure, personality upheavals and a preoccupation with formality more akin to 19th century poetry than a musician touted by Stereogum.
Our own personalities and relative failures as social beings, it turned out, led us to some conclusions that, if not fraudulent, were not truly borne out in Ohio, or in any of the other states we have visited on subsequent Dispatch trips.
Steroid rumors aside, the stumbling block to conferring greatness on Bonds, critics say, is his personality and his postseason failures.
And if success is down to personality, does that make failure your fault?
