 When we talk about causes of individual differences then we all know that individual means individual differences mean that those two words are showing that individuals have some differences. So what kind of differences they have that make them different from others and what are the causes of these differences basically reasons, causes or factors these factors are present in environment present in our genes so that's why we all are equal we are not equal but we all are different from each other and this divine is God gifted and this divine is very natural and we should not criticize other people that why they are different from you and you are beautiful you are intelligent and you have very good attitude or aptitude and you are social so you should not criticize others for not being all these in all being like you because why others are not like you because they are different they are different in their liking and disliking they are different in their attitude because if you are social and others are not social it doesn't mean that they are not normal and you are normal so this is the basic concept to understand individual differences and causes can be present in environment and in your hereditary factors so today I will just explain some causes of individual differences that people know that they are different but they may they do not know that why they are different from others. First of all the factor hereditary, heredity involves in bringing biological changes into your personality that you are changed you have differences in physical appearance in your physique height weight skin color eye color and even your physical motor skills that you are working how you are working so these are your attitudes these are your capacities abilities that you are working with and hereditary actually is determined through your genes that you are getting from your parents and your gene is determined with your ancestors seven races from you can get your genes characteristics and environment is involved in bringing change into your personalities and environment means that your home environment your school environment and your societal environment and what type of friends you have they will bring change into your personalities what kind of family you have your family is peaceful then you have the peaceful personality and if you have the aggressive family your parents have conflict between them then you will be disturbed child you will be ignored child and you will show different attitude towards society so these factors are you know bringing change into your personality and then environment consists of physical intellectual social moral political economic and cultural forces so I told you that the first two forces that your house and your street and your school that these three institutions can bring change into your personality what type of relations you have with your family what type of relations with your friends you have what type of relations with your teachers you have and with your peers your friends what type of friends you have so all these forces will make you as complete personality as comprehensive personality and all these forces will bring change into your personality. So if we talk about the economic, yes economic status also matters because what type of economic status you are enjoying right now that you belong to which economic status that you belong to the average family, you belong to the upper family, you belong to the middle class family, you belong to the below average family, it depends. So these forces will bring change into your personality. So personality personality always influenced through these cultural or societal forces and cultural forces. Yes, what type of culture you have at your house that you have two families, one family from your father, one family from your mother. So what type of families you have you belong to which because although there is no caste system in Islam, but we all people are living with caste system in Pakistan and we belong to different castes and then we believe that our caste is the best caste and every caste has different environmental factors or forces and also the habits, attitudes are determined through your caste system and these caste system also bring changes into your personality and so the sex differences means that the male and female they have different roles to play. So they have differences in their personality, two males cannot be equal, two females cannot be equal, either they belong to the same age group and age and intelligence yes, your age also when you are improving you are maturing then you will get more differences into your personalities and intelligence yes, intelligence everybody has intelligence but with the different ratio with the different speed that you are working with. So all these factors are involved to bring change into your personality and these are called causes of individual differences.