John Locke believed that we are all born as a blank slate, known as the tabula rasa. This is the base of who we all are as people, Nothing. Not in the sense that we don't exist, but in the sense that at our very core we are empty. We come up with ways of distracting ourselves from the emptiness and to fill the time we are alive, but when it comes back to it we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences and our natural instincts. Our bodies play a role in the way the world treats us but that is the extent of nature in the development of the self. I argue that personality is entirely built out of societal influence.