Where did the following saying come from Who you are now depends on where you were when?

Answer 1

This was the topic of a management training video sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. Morris Massey: "Who You Are Now is What You Were When"- Values Formation and Significant Emotional Events Morris Massey is(was?) a social scientist who was on the faculty of the University of Colorado before becoming a private consultant. He observed that at around age 10, people identify "heroes" around which they model their beliefs and views. These figures don't necessarily have to be actual people, or even fictional ones. They can be animals, plants, natural or cultural features, etc. By about age 14, Massey contends, this internal process of modeling heroes results in a person establishing a world view or philosophical perspective about what is right/wrong, good/bad, normal/not-normal that is very strongly set and resistant to change. People are most susceptible to change, Massey feels, when they experience what he calls a "significant emotional event." Such traumatically pleasant or unpleasant experiences as getting married, getting divorced, narrowly escaping death, etc. destabilize a person's world view (for a time) and make him or her much more likely to modify that characteristically rigid mind set. He used his premise to explain how employees of different generations are motivated. For instance, employees who grew up in the depression of the 1930's were motivated by financial security while Generation X employees were motivated by freedom of choices. He addressed each generation according to the heros and world views people had when they were in that 10-14 yr age. Then he explained how to use this information to attract, motivate, and retain employees.