Why Are People the Way They Are? She Asked Recently
Human beings can certainly be an interesting species to study, especially from a behavioral standpoint. No doubt about it and the studies are completely endless. Have you ever wondered what makes this species tick, or why people do the things they do? That is to say; why are they the way they are? This is a great question indeed. Not long ago, I was having this conversation with an acquaintance, and she stated;
“This is a very loaded question for me. I’ve heard many perspective from, genetics to personal choices (to speed things up here). There’s a lot between those two. Statements like, who cares, it does not matter, etc. (complacent answers) are not important.”
Well, you know you have Freud saying one thing, childhood developmental psychologists saying another, and that whole debate on Nature vs. Nurture right? Genetics or experience for instance, indeed, there seems to be a combination effect. So you have the way people form their brain’s circuitry and build their own minds, invent themselves, how personalities form, how and where they store information, education, etc. I like to say it this way. A person is:
Their education
Their experiences
Their 5-closest friends
The sum of their successes
Their parental upbringing, mirroring.
Their Thoughts and Belief System
Their Observations
Their intelligence
Their recent stimulus, long-term addictions
The sum of their decisions.
People are too busy with being people, humans. People think they are their personalities, Personality is certainly “one” aspect of a person. Like any animal, you know cats, dogs, birds, all have personality. But if every individual has a personality, then there is NO Difference in that regard right? But there is much more to it than that.
You can have two identical twins, but if they have different experiences, they’ll have different observations, and with different education, they will most likely come to slightly different decisions or approach problem solving slightly differently even if genetically they are nearly identical in that regard. If you change their parenting, their friends, their environment, they will be different, and the more you change, the more radical the change the more different they will be.
So, when we ask “why are people the way they are” well, there are many reasons for this, and it’s not as simple a question as it appears. Perhaps, the reason few wish to challenge it, and why you can get a Masters or PhD in psychology and only concentrate on one minute aspect of the overall equation. So, please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it’s hard to write 20,000 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/
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