tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post2170147190299247466..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: UnfocusedRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-18552153674990118912011-01-07T09:47:20.839-08:002011-01-07T09:47:20.839-08:00huh -- I was just thinking this morning (while pon...huh -- I was just thinking this morning (while pondering how many entries I have to catch up on after being out of town for a few weeks), "this blog would be great as a book in itself". <br /><br />+1 on that idea.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414758502410325296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-69253752408874019992011-01-02T09:06:48.318-08:002011-01-02T09:06:48.318-08:00OK - Curious now ... Self defense an oxymoron?
....OK - Curious now ... Self defense an oxymoron? <br /> ..... Because there is no 'self' to defend? Or what we think of as 'self' is not what we are defending? Or ....?<br /><br />Looking forward to reading where you are going with this....Maijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-14272823500070395502011-01-01T10:12:05.196-08:002011-01-01T10:12:05.196-08:00It's been said that some Native Americans , Na...It's been said that some Native Americans , Navajos I think have no fear of heights, and they are seen doing construction work at really great heights.<br />this is nature not nurture. I can't fly in a commercial aeroplane, and this is nurture, a learned responce that I got many years ago, however I've been up in a small aircraft with a couple of other guys and we did some aerobatics and they were sick and scared...I wasn't, didn't bother me at all, loved the view , funny isn't it!!.how do we decide what it is?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-14013391371946476142011-01-01T09:35:36.071-08:002011-01-01T09:35:36.071-08:00Hey Josh.
Bob- You have the best profile bio ever....Hey Josh.<br />Bob- You have the best profile bio ever. What always made me sad about the job were the people that hated it but couldn't make the decision to leave.<br /><br />Maija- I'd have to start with trying to find an intrinsic self. It's like the koan, what can you take away and ceae to be you? Then, yeah, comfort level with change can be encouraged (lots of experimentation with "Learned helplessness" to show that it can be discouraged). And I do believe that nature sets some limits.<br />But people can get acclimatized to a lot, so is resistance with change distance from nature? Approaching an edge? Seeking homeostasis?<br /><br />I've been working on an idea, that self-defense might be an oxymoron, that covers some of this.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-62928785946579878622011-01-01T09:10:12.480-08:002011-01-01T09:10:12.480-08:00Rory -
Do you think that the intrinsic self is inf...Rory -<br />Do you think that the intrinsic self is infinitely variable - is as plastic as you give it incentives to change? <br />I guess I believe that nurture plays an enormous part, but that the further you get from your personal nature, the greater the resistance to change becomes - the incentives necessary to adapt meet harder and harder resistance ....<br />So perhaps you could say that nature plays in at the edges of your potentiality, with nurture governing the space in between ....?<br />I also get the feeling that if you learn that the possibilities outside of yourself exist early enough in life, and that you can imagine them, and get some positive feedback as to your plasticity ... the easier it is to play with your 'nature' with less resistance at the edges .....Maijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-18920613469895760132011-01-01T05:39:13.511-08:002011-01-01T05:39:13.511-08:00Thanks for the note. I do look on those four years...Thanks for the note. I do look on those four years as very valuable. Lots of lessons for management and for self-defense. <br /><br />Some people fit well into that environment -- it's like anything else I suppose. My mom worked over 40 years in a mental institution and absolutely loved it. <br /><br />I think I touched on that in pt. 1 -- why some 10+ year correctional veterans looked un-phased while others looked scarred. <br /><br />People are funny.BSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13599662252662686373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-2303734033137887562011-01-01T00:09:03.899-08:002011-01-01T00:09:03.899-08:00I like what you say about choices. I found that if...I like what you say about choices. I found that if you gives someone an excuse they will use it. <br /><br />Oh, and now you want to make the blog easier to read. <br />;-)<br /><br />Happy New Year to you and the family.Josh Kruschkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288700371539530398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-41061212738549731652010-12-31T19:25:35.457-08:002010-12-31T19:25:35.457-08:00Nature vs nurture as a cop out for whatever, wheth...Nature vs nurture as a cop out for whatever, whether it's being overweight (yes, I almost certainly have a genetic tendency to be overweight, just look at my family -- but I also have a sweet tooth, and the ability to work out and to eat less, if I choose to...) or being an asshole is bullshit to me.<br /><br />Nature v nurture as an explanation for differences in human reactions to different situations? That I'll buy. I'm a product of my life, for good and bad. How I respond to things has been shaped as much by my experiences and by what I saw in my parents and others I respected growing up as by any inborn traits. <br /><br />What I read you saying, Rory, is something I agree with: Mental/emotional/psychological flexibility is probably the biggest thing that gives humanity a leg up on the universe to date. We aren't lemmings who automatically run off a cliff or dogs that go nuts if they're around a female in heat... We can adapt and overcome -- and people have done so in some of the most horrific situations imaginable, like the WWII concentration camps or the Japanese POW camps in WWII.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393212692342514984noreply@blogger.com