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I kind of wonder whether taking caffeine or other more interesting stimulants might be a good way to shift ones personality to be more driven & determined... during the most effective periods of my life, I was taking lots of stimulants, and I would be pretty driven even when I wasn't caffeinated. Seems to get me in the habit of thinking strategically and punching through aversions somehow.
I haven't experienced any personality changes of this kind from long-term stimulant use.
A hypothesis about what happened to you: while the stimulants were effective, you got stuff done, which allowed you to shift your whole self-image towards "someone who gets stuff done", thus resulting in a personality change as an indirect effect.