The innateness of personality is obvious in kids because they haven't yet had the time to undergo any meaningful environment-induced (or self-induced) change. They express their raw nature.
However, I believe that experience shapes personality significantly over the long term, especially between the ages of ~15 and ~25. I also believe that people are capable of deliberately building themselves, choosing to alter their own personalities through a wide range of means. The person you were born as doesn't have to be the person you die as.
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We have multiple reasons for wanting to believe nurture is more important than nature and none for wanting to believe the opposite (unless we = the far right, which we ≠), so it's not surprising we overestimate its effect. But man are kids' personalities inborn.
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