5. However, this inner core, or self, grows into adulthood only partly by k objective or subjective) discovery, uncovering and acceptance of what is "there" beforehand. Partly itis also a creation of the person himself. Life is a continual series of choices for the individual in which a main determinant of choice is the person as lie already is (including his goals for himself, his courage or fear, his feeling of responsibility, his ego-strength or "will power," etc.). We can no longer think of the personas "fully determined" where this phrase implies "determined only by forces external to the person." The person, insofar as he is a real person.is his own main determinant. Every person is, in part, "his own project, “and makes himself.