Personality Palette

Imagine an old artist's color palette.

The artist would rarely use a single color on the palette.  Instead, (s)he would dab the primary colors in the color well in an empty well on the palate and mix the colors for some other unique color from the primary colors mixed.

In the electronic age it's the same principle, but the colors are not manually mixed.  The digital number of one color is added to the digital number of a second color.  The result is the same - many unique colors - but the possibilities are more numerous.

The digital color palette is a great snapshot for what takes place in the DNA of each person.

A personality palette exists in genes and operates on a larger scale, but with a similar process as that of the selection of color of skin, type of skin, color of eyes, size of eyes, color of hair, texture of hair, and so forth.  Families could have certain dominances that surface, but wouldn't have to surface given the right conditions.  A personality palate would also explain the nuances of likenesses and differences in the same way a brother or sister might have similar eyes or brows, but different shaped lips and teeth.

Personalities show early in a person's life and continue to develop through life.  And, it seems that they are not so much changeable as they are malleable.  Charting the personality palette would be a marvelous study because it would show the nuances that mixtures of personalities bring and mixtures that differ.  An even more fascinating study would be the interaction of the personalities when they are in the same environment together.  Which influence is the stronger or weaker influence in the presence of particular personality opposites.  To use a color palette analogy, what happens when lime green and silver are in the same picture?  How do people viewing the two colors react?

At that point, perhaps we could begin formulating some laws of attraction and repulsion.  But, we all know how much better as a person we are when we are in the environment of harmony and what a drain it is to be in the environment of conflict.  Most of the time we are in an environment containing varying amounts of conflict and harmony.  Our physical actions and mental reactions undergo constant adjustment.  But, how enjoyable life is when the influences from a significant person around us contain the perfect matches for us of tension and ease.  Compatibility happens.  Yes, days of Camelot!