One of the biggest questions on Survivor is: Can a person ever really change?
In this season, Survivor Cambodia, the theme is second chance. Everybody returning has played before but none of them have won. A lot of them have tried to change their games and improve on what they viewed as a failure the first time, but many are failing.
Abi Maria Gomez pretty obviously is repeating her same mistakes in being too emotional and not thinking rationally whereas Spencer Bledsoe is actively trying to improve what he felt was his biggest issue: his social game. He is actively trying to form bonds and connections that he feels were his biggest issue the first time. Is he actually improving or was this not a problem before and just what he perceives to have been his biggest issue?
Well, Gordon Allport defined your personality as consistent parts of your behavior. He narrowed it down to 1405 adjectives that could possibly fit under it. Can these be changed or, as Freud would say, your personality is part of your unconscious and it develops from childhood?
I am going to view it from Freud's perspective as unwavering and pretty much untenable in order to best view it from a rational and logical game theory standpoint in order to best decide what move should be made.
This means that Spencer's efforts to change are futile, especially as he is placed in a high stress environment with no food and bad weather.
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