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Anthony Baloukas

Is Genius Borne of Nature or Nurture? - 0 views

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  • Nurture would include education, parenting, learning, and time invested into the subject’s amount of learning.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is what a person is given through his/her environment when growing up.
  • Nature is the way we automatically perceive without instruction.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is what a person is given through genetics.
  • A student who is unexposed to academic curriculum cannot be expected to perform algebra simply by instinct.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Example of how one could pretty much guide their child to be anything they want it to be. Whether it be successful, intelligent, athletic..
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  • Genius can be learned, it can be natural, but most importantly: it should be used.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Perhaps there aren't ways to necessarily produce a genius, but we can for sure push a person to reach his/her full potential. 
  • Galileo, who applied his scholarly knowledge and found truth. Alexander the Great, tactically in battle. Benjamin Franklin, the inventor of many modern devices. Albert Einstein, a superb and original scholar. Andy Warhol, for his outstandingly appealing original creativity. Bill Gates, a technological thinker who applied his knowledge creatively.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Examples of great geniuses in history
  • Therefore, we must assess that nature and nurture together combine to bring opportunity for genius.
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      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      It has been concluded that both nature and nurture are combined to create what we call a "genius"
  • creativity is a part of our nature.
gillian baron-goodman

The unconscious mind: Hidden depths | The Economist - 0 views

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  • unconscious—a sort of shadowy basement of the mind
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      gillian baron-goodman on 02 May 13
       
      a great metaphor, that helps people understand how the unconscious mind works
  • Freud's unconscious (a hot, claustrophobic place full of repressed memories and inappropriate sexual fantasies about one's parents)
  • place of super-fast data processing, useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.
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  • stitches together data on colour, shape, movement and perspective to create the sight enjoyed by the conscious part of the mind.
  • almost every piece of information they come across is a survival mechanism that evolved to aid quick decision making
  • ie behind the tendency for human beings to group people into races, genders, creeds and the like, and then to apply certain characteristics—unjustifiably—to every member of that group.
  • unconscious brains are better at using their conscious minds to overrule them.
courtney galli

Cult Formation - 0 views

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  • ideological totalism,
  • Cults can be identified by three characteristics: a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
  • milieu control: the control of all communication within a given environment. In such an environment individual autonomy becomes a threat to the group. There is an attempt to manage an individual's inner communication. Milieu control is maintained and expressed by intense group process, continuous psychological pressure, and isolation by geographical distance, unavailability of transportation, or even physical restraint. Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events such as seminars, lectures and encounters which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically.
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  • Intense milieu control can contribute to a dramatic change of identity which I call doubling: the formation of a second self which lives side by side with the former one, often for a considerable time. When the milieu control is lifted, elements of the earlier self may be reasserted.
  • Three further aspects of ideological totalism are "sacred science," "loading of the language," and the principle of "doctrine over person."
  • Perhaps the most significant characteristic of totalistic movements is what I ca
  • Sacred science is important because a claim of being scientific is often needed to gain plausibility and influence in the modern age.
  • language
  • The principle of doctrine over person' is invoked when cult members sense a conflict between what they are experiencing and what dogma says they should experience.
  • The term loading the language' refers to literalism and a tendency to deify words or images.
  • l "dispensing of existence." Those who have not seen the light and embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the right to exist.
  • That is one reason why a cult member threatened with being cast into outer darkness may experience a fear of extinction or collapse.
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      History of the person
  • Totalism should always be considered within a specific historical context.
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