Originally posted by Lord Lucien
"Human nature"... I can't be the only one to find that term both misleading and unhelpful. As if there is but one nature all humans subscribe to.
The brain isn't that unique yet. It is still more stimulated by brazen will to succeed than humble will for satisfaction and stagnated contention.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
It's too one-note. As if it describes every action by anyone.
Some people find drive in altruism, does not me they don't require a superiority complex to not shit themselves at the daunting shoes they'd have to fit into to overcome obstacles established geniuses and athletes could not. You must be arrogant. It's human nature. 😛 😛 😛
Originally posted by Dolos
This is the leisurly internet. I would cite how the mind works in such ways if this were a legal dispute or an English essay, moreover, I can support such statements.
In fact when I get off work ill dig up some scholarly articles and cite them properly for good practice. I do want to be a scientist.
I worked until 9 this time. Moving people in and out is time-consuming, furniture is very delicate. A lesson I keep learning the hard way.
Anyway, this article gets the core of why geniuses are manifested from a prodigal sense of self-worth;
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5773-2_8#page-1
This article is about the mentally impaired, but it gets down to focus on one thing, obsession, shutting off the world, and direct and phenomenal increases in cognitive functioning in that particular area;
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0156655920390208#.UYM2uKLP1YU
^I am a savant, yet I keep it fluid, and therefore I'm able to completely hide the tale tell signs of my disorder by improving inter-personal, emotional, and social skills in that same manner..out of necessity, utter focus on things outside of what my mind naturally clings to. I need to be able to adapt my ability to shut off everything, to what will help me survive in the now.
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This abstract explains a little about how the brain analyzes and interprets the world through self-created patterns. It explains how we learn, how we think, why we perceive and respond the way we do. Meta-cognitively, this process can be self-improved upon, sharpened.
Finally we have arousal, your over-bloated sense of things related to your learning and your improvement in life;
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&UID=1996-02827-004
Think big, be big.
If you think you're just not as smart as someone else, that a career is not your destiny, think like Neo. Neo said to the Oracle, "I don't belief in all this, your prophecies, because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my own destiny."