Comments | matrixmann: Boomers, Millennials and Generation Z

matrixmann

Boomers, Millennials and Generation Z

Oct 18, 2018 00:13

One's always adapted to the circumstances one has grown up with and is currently surrounded with.
So, if someone asks "why can't you perform X?!" or "why do you do X now?!", then he should keep the thought "What have your parents taught you?" in the back of his head and similar.

menschen, psychology, kindheit, self development, nature, system, society

Comments 6

maadmike October 17 2018, 22:41:35 UTC

Can you change the way of thinking?

matrixmann October 17 2018, 22:56:37 UTC

To change well-trained brain structures is very difficult.

What I can say about it is: Individual psychology, as common in Western domains, doesn't do the job alone. Best thing would be a combination with surroundings, respectively macro-surroundings.
But that is difficult to do as it would mean to change the world and the way it functions like every day. The world may problably not agree on doing that (or at least those people which have a lot of influence onto the course of the human world)...

maadmike October 18 2018, 06:19:47 UTC

"To change well-trained brain structures is very difficult."

I am not speaking about trying to change flesh but about changing the way of thinking - to attempt look out of your cozy, habitual circle with using other conceptions - "Yes Man" movie as a comical example... ;)

matrixmann October 18 2018, 13:57:13 UTC

Brain structures are the physical base for behavior.

What you behave like, what your habits are like - they all have pathways carved into your brain.
Or, better say: It's just long chains of millions of nerve cells, those pathways.

If you change behavior on the outside, then there's the chance to change these pathways... But only if this change becomes steady. If it becomes the rule, your regular behavior.

Imagine it like stopping smoking or stopping to drink.
You've gotta stop and behave different day by day so you get away from the addiction - or at least, the addiction has no control over you anymore... The item your brain craves for then doesn't rub it anymore.

onb2017 October 20 2018, 18:02:02 UTC

In my experience people change their mind set really quickly when they face reality. Not just think about it but being a part of it. I know lots of people who though my constant discontent with the system was just pessimism but then they went and started working to earn the living and pay the bills and pretty much all they have to live through all atrocities for themselves and then it really changed their thinking.

matrixmann October 20 2018, 19:36:24 UTC

When circumstances allow no moving in the situation, neither forth nor back, without changing anything about the whole frame which one's enclosed in - yeah, then change happens in them.

What I meant here is - when people always ask you about dysfunctional behavior patterns "why do you behave like this?" in the present, especially when such a scenario doesn't happen for the first time, they should not go about it like "we're all free individuals and only do what we voluntarily decide for", they should take it as something that doesn't come from nothing ( ... )