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I took a psychology class my senior year of high school and one of the topic we discussed was nature versus nurture. Are we who we are because the environment affects how we turn out (nurture) or are we born who we are (nurture)? My personal belief is that it is both. Our personality is innate to an extent and then molded by the environment.
Well for me...nature. Sure I have great parents that did a damn fine job of raising me. But growing up where I did...nature was a very vital part of my life. I've learned from observing animals in the wild, from the weather, from the water, and the terrain. Living in a very rural area gardens had to be planted, animals hunted or fished for food, stocking the pantry so to speak for winter. You learn to waste nothing, utilize everything, and take nothing for granted, including people. I'm not sure this is the answer you were looking for. I voted way over my head. I'm just a dumb country boy with no college. But I am the nicest guy you will ever meet. And I try to influence others to be the same.
If I were a product of nature, I would be drunk in a gutter somewhere right now instead of my nice cozy home.
I am who I am and will continue to grow into the person that God intended me to be.
Of course my background has given me a few obstacles, but I choose not to get stuck in my past. So I guess it's a little of both, but I lean more towards nurture.
I am adopted and for me there are things that I do that are so directly from my adopted family it frightens me sometimes because they are a disfunctional bunch...
However there are some other things that are exactly like my biological family. Mind you my birth Mother never even saw me when I was born and I didn't find her until I was in my mid 20s...
Odd little things like I have an extreme aversion to seeds, I won't eat certain foods because of them, I had never met anyone with that issue until I met my birth Mother.
I have always had a bizarre obsession with solid white cats and solid black cats...since I was a very small child...so does my birth Mother.
Our general attitude is similar, take no prisoners kind of thing as well. I sprang from the womb rebellious and stayed that way no matter what my adopted parents tried, it didn't work...so is my birth Mother.
Well for me...nature. Sure I have great parents that did a damn fine job of raising me. But growing up where I did...nature was a very vital part of my life. I've learned from observing animals in the wild, from the weather, from the water, and the terrain. Living in a very rural area gardens had to be planted, animals hunted or fished for food, stocking the pantry so to speak for winter. You learn to waste nothing, utilize everything, and take nothing for granted, including people. I'm not sure this is the answer you were looking for. I voted way over my head. I'm just a dumb country boy with no college. But I am the nicest guy you will ever meet. And I try to influence others to be the same.
Sure, our parents loved us, but I dont feel like they nurtured us, I think when I had my first child nature took its course, and my children are nurtured.
I voted both. I remember a discussion about identical twins at a lunchroom years ago at a psych hospital where I worked. The twins were born just minutes apart; so different you'd have thought they hadn't been born from the same mother. No explaining it really, so I believe we declared it a combination of nature and nurture (with nature predominating).
But more recently, I also subscribe to behavior change!
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