Personality is built through directed will, concrete means, and remaking conditions

Evidence

Men create their own personality, 1. by giving a specific and concrete (“rational”) direction to their own vital impulse or will; 2. by identifying the means which will make this will concrete and specific and not arbitrary; 3. by contributing to modify the ensemble of the concrete conditions for realising this will to the extent of one’s own limits and capacities and in the most fruitful form. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1285

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s three-step mechanism of how a person becomes a concrete historical actor — the practical bridge between subjectivity and praxis.