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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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      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.
Anthony Baloukas

Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? - TIME - 0 views

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  • geniuses are the result of both good genes and good surroundings.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This answers the question to my TFAD project. 
  • Geniuses are those who "have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement" and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both "original and highly exemplary."
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      The definition of genius, and what it takes to actually be a special human being. 
  • How to produce genius is a very old question, one that has occupied philosophers since antiquity.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      It's interesting to see that this question has been asked for a long time. If it were possible to produce a genius, would we eventually all live in a society filled with gifted individuals?
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  • There are IQ tests
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      There is a procedure to determine whether someone is a genius or not. 
  • the debate over what leads to genius has been dominated by a bitter, binary argument: is it nature or is it nurture — is genius genetically inherited, or are geniuses the products of stimulating and supportive homes?
  • "open to experience, introverted, hostile, driven, and ambitious."
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is aid to be the main characteristics of a genius. 
  • Personality traits also matter.
Daryl Bambic

NOVA | The Nurture of Nature - 1 views

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  • Harvard naturalist E. O. Wilson published his seminal Sociobiology in 1975. The book unleashed a heated debate over whether social behaviors such as altruism or aggression could have a genetic basis, a controversy that helped spur the now vigorous research into such mysteries.
  • Daryl Bambic on 15 Dec 11
     
    How genes influence behaviour; the beginning of sociobiology
trevor kearns

Human Nature - 0 views

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  • trevor kearns on 31 Jan 11
     
    Only watch from 9:10 to 41:00 This video talks about many different things. From the Nature vs. Nurture debate, epigenetics, addicts, and it also talks about the important psychological needs of young children and even the needs of a fetus in the womb of their mother.
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