In chapter nine, something I found really interesting was the thinking critically article entitled "The Fear Factor--Do We Fear the Right Things?" This article pointed out 4 main points about why we fear things we do.
1) We fear what our ancestral history has prepared us to fear.
2) We fear what we cannot control.
3) We fear what is immediate.
4) We fear what is most readily available in our memory.
I think that this article is totally true about our fears. I am afraid of things such as spiders or snakes that put our ancestors at risk years and years ago, even though spiders and snakes are barely dangerous at all today. I fear losing important people in my life because I cannot control who stays and who goes. We all fear immediate threats. Finally, we fear the most vivid memories. For example, if you witnessed a horrible car crash, you may be afraid of riding in a car even though you weren't before the incident occurred.
I think that I am creative. I love photography and I like to draw. I believe everyone has to use their own creativity all the time. Being creative isn't limited to art or writing, either. Creativity is expressed through clothes you wear or decorating your bedroom or locker. I think being creatively intelligent is very important because if a person weren't creative, they wouldn't be original or unique. Everyone would be exactly the same if no one possessed any creativity.
In Chapter ten I found it interesting how they talked about the size and proportion of Einstein's brain. It turns out that his lower parietal lobes were 15% larger than other areas of his brain. This section of the brain is a center for processing math and spatial information. The book says that this explains why Einstein was slower at learning how to talk but was so exceptionally smart in math. I found this interesting because I remember hearing somewhere that the size of our brains doesn't determine how smart we are. Apparently, in the case of Einstein, the size of certain sections of our brains can relate to how well we do in certain subjects.
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I think that fear is all in the mind. People would not know fear unless it was taught to them. Fear is an important asspect in people lives and help make us human. I love being creative and I hope you continue doing photograph in your life. Wow. I don't reamember that part of the book that said about einstein's brain. I would how much smarter I would be it that was true with me.
ReplyDeleteI thought the section in your blog about Einstein was very interesting. I've also heard that saying that the size of a brain doesn't determine how smart a person is. Einstein's brain proved that saying wrong. It would be cool to have a larger lower parietal lobe. I could use some help in Advanced Math.
ReplyDeleteI agree that everyone is creative, even it is as simple as a cool outfit. I love clothes! lol I think you tend to be more creative in the areas you love because ideas just pop in your head without even thinking about it. Everyone is original and unique and that's what makes people interesting.
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