Working together- cognitive flexibility
This section came to me as
something I needed to look at a few times to help myself better understand
certain issues. I am a young adult like (most of) those who are also taking
this course. I find it quite interesting how the author thought to include
something so subtle but more interesting than anything I have read up to this
point in time.
Showing
that thinking processes doesn’t come from childhood was something I thought had
to be untrue? There is no way I thought that there would be something that
could be separate from the childhood experiences you have. I found it to be
true when I did think about it more and more as to how we as young adults are
able to think of those situations we put ourselves in and make sure that we
choose the one that is best for us in that instance. Granted you don’t have
people make the right choices when it comes to society all the time you do have
a lot of the more immature ones making the choices that are only intrinsically “good”.
With the ability
to accomplish some cognitive flexibility people then become able to make those
decisions in which they know they will have to “adjust fire” and make others
happy and not only oneself. I think the ability for people to accomplish
putting another’s needs in front of your own also makes the cognitive
flexibility turn into more mature generosity and commitment.
I found it surprising in this response that you thought all forms of thought process come from childhood. In allot of ways that makes sense, especially since we have been focusing allot on childhood development. However, though childhood experience can predict certain outcomes, or make them more likely it is also quite common that they do not. I often find it even more surprising that the results can be totally contrary to what one would expect. For example losing a parent in childhood is considered to be very hard and it would seem that this could lead to negative implications for the future of that child. However, while it can be a predictor of bad behavior, it is also a huge predictor of uncommon success. Half to a slight majority of many of the most elite positions such as prime minster(Krulwich), have had a parent die in their childhood. This is a frightful notion, but also I think comforting in that, we do not necessarily need to be defined by our childhoods, or at least not in the way we may fear. This same idea relates directly to the discussion of stereotyping that was discussed in the text and by many of our peers in the blog this week .
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