Universal Hints for an All Round Development of Human Personality: Vladimir Lenin as a Case Study

Case Study from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, University of Balochistan (Department of English Literature), course: Literature, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate universal hints for an all-round development of human personality: Vladimir Lenin as a case study, in the light of Stephen R. Covey's suggested habits, expounded in his books, 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People' and 'The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to greatness', following the most eminent Russian physiologist and psychologist Pavlov's theory of classical behaviourism. This paper adopts the popped up chunks of Pavlov's classical behaviourist theory to analyse how the process of habit formation influences the effective and great human personalities of the world. Thus, the present study will enable the readers and researchers to confront Pavlov's classical behaviourist theory of habit formation through conditioned and unconditioned stimuli and reflexes. Readers are also expected to abandon the bad habits and adopt the good ones. Through infrequent but subtle universal hints which will serve as a model of effective and great human personality of the world. Applying I. P. Pavlov's classical behaviourist theory, this paper concentrates on all round development of gallivanting and history making personality of Vladimir Lenin as a case study, who identified himself with history, and present Vladimir Lenin in novel and innovative perspective.

Javed Akhtar was born in Quetta in 15th January, 1977. He did his Masters in English Literature from Punjab University Lahore. He is serving as an Assistant in Department of English Literature; Science College Quetta He is visiting Professor of Background to English Literature at University of Balochistan Quetta. His M.Phil. is in progress research. He focuses on the intersection of Marxist hermeneutics, Deconstructive criticism and Marxist Feminism. He has a background in Literary and linguistic studies, literary theory, Marxist literary criticism and Deconstruction and active in the fields of Marxist literary criticism, Deconstructive criticism, Comparative literature and socio-linguistics. Email: sangatjavedakhtar@gmail.com