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I completely agree. How about this formulation: is stress, whether internal or external, required for learning? My answer is yes. With no stress there is no d
by DanielBMarkham 10y ago
I completely agree.
How about this formulation: is stress, whether internal or external, required for learning?
My answer is yes. With no stress there is no desire for change. The best case is the self-actualized person, where they form their own goals and provide internal stress in order to learn more and reach them.
But even then, I think we can all think of folks with so much internal drive that they distorted their personality.
- RobertoG 10y agoThere is stress and there is stress. I agree that the human (all animals actually) trend is to conserve energy and minimize risks. So you need some kind of pressure to go out and change. But I was thinking in how people get trapped by bad conditions, environmental circumstances where they are born and that are going to be with them all their life. This "problems create character" thing suffer a little from surviving bias, in my opinion.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoAgreed. I think we're saying the same thing. I'm thinking that perhaps there are some core life skills that can be taught so that people are able to positively handle more external stress and provide themselves the correct amount of internal stress. At least I hope so. It would be depressing to contemplate a large section of humanity unable to self-actualize without chemical dependency or other problems. Not only is that bad for those folks, it brings up the insane question of whether or not such a condition is a disability.