Assumptions Regarding The Personality Of Man 1. People's personalities are a result of their inheritted and learned influences. 1a. Inheritted influences include but are not limited to a person's unique genetic makeup. The initial cognitive impact of any birth defect due to outside influences, such as alcohol consumption by the mother during pregnancy are also included as they are present at birth and are not consciously recognized by the person in question. 1b.Learned influences can be described as the lasting impact of each individual conscious, reciprocal interaction a person experiences throughout their lifetime. The sum total of these learned influences can be called the experience set. 2. The condition of a person's inherited influences have been determined by the time of their birth and do not change. That is not to say that they do not develop after birth, but after birth the development of inherited influences is deterministic in nature. A person who is predisposed to a happy disposition at birth will always develop as such in an environment void of learned influences. 3. Learned influences are also permanent, as the impact of a conscious interaction never completely diminishes. An existing learned influence can, however be nullified, by an equally strong learned influence that comes in direct conflict with it. 4. Learned influences are, then cummulative. A person's experience set remains dynamic throughout their whole life. As the number of learned influences increases, the impact of any single experience will diminish, but never reach a level of complete irrelevance. 5. As a result of assumptions one through four, it can be said that inherited influences form the whole of a person's personality at birth, but diminish steadily throughout the of their life. 6. As long as a person's experience set remains in accordance with their inheritted influences, the impact of future learned experiences will continue to diminish. For the vast majority of a person's life, a person's experience set will play a much bigger role in that person's overall personality than inheritted influences. 7. Positive learned influences promote positive personality traits and vice versa. The same can be said of negative learned influences and negative personality traits. Conclusions For Mankind: When all is said and done, a person's experience set is generally the largest portion of a person's overall personality. What this means is that positivity begets positivity, just as violence begets violence. By spreading positivity, any person can truly make a significant difference in the world around them in a very real way. This applies within any community from the family level to the global level, regardless of size. At its most fundamental level, this leads to two conclusions. One is that the overall well being of a society is directly related to the sum of the positivity and negativity perpetuated by the people within it. The other is that the overall well being of a society changes, for better or for worse, this change will experience exponential growth like that of a snowball. It is only through a conscious, collective effort throughout society that this snowball effect can be reversed.
good one! remember the old song......... 'you gotta accentuate the positive eliminate the negative latch on to the affirmative dont mess with mr. inbetween..........'
You are assuming...that nature only has two sides. A positive, and a negative. It is not so. Chaos is what most people see in duality. Chance. What if's. To them, the world is an assembly of one's and zero's. The intermixing of which gives the illusion of chaos. In reality, it is well ordered with a discipline the human mind cannot grasp. We can only see fragments, and believe what we perceive. We assemble this into the virtual reality that makes you think you're reading this on a computer screen. A tiny piece of you believes it with all their soul. What's attached to that tiny piece, is going to knock your socks off someday. x
I think you are the one assuming that he believes that nature only has two sides. I mean I dont know if he does, but what does that has to do with what he said? Just because he believes positivity begets positivity, doesnt mean he sees everything in black and white.
