some say it’s all hard work.
I say “willingness to work hard is part of genes”
Human species are just some random combinations of chemicals. No one knows the parameters considered in that combination ( may be the time your parents did “it” or mental state of your parents while doing “it” or the food your mom eaten in her earlier days or the pollution rate in the country,  perhaps combination of infinite parameters)
I call that combination as luck.
The set of problems we have are not real, they all part of chemical reactions in brain
Ex:
if you throw an apple iphone it broke and it remain broken: that is real
In our case the problems we think today will fade away after some time, if they are real they should have travel with us till we die. They should persist even when we don’t think about them. But problems will disappear if we stop thinking about them.
Accept life as a luck and move on.
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Things like this really interest me. What I tend to notice is how I am quite lethargic or even kind of melancholy at best, nearly all the time. Meanwhile some people I know have seemingly all the energy in the world – nothing can stop them. People tell me to change my diet, change my sleeping habits, exercise, etc, it NEVER works. We’re just fundamentally different. My dad is the same way as I am, so I figure it must be genetic.
If it’s not genetic, the only other factor is to change your mindset but that’s not easy and won’t happen overnight. There are times when I’ve been energetic and “high on life” (like after some extremely good luck) but still nothing close to those other people.
Dawn Approach is a carrier of the CC-gene and therefore his optimum distance is 6.5f up to a mile. Less than 5% of CC-types win beyond a mile yet knowing this he was still entered in the Epsom derby over 1m 4f. They thought his class would see him through. You can’t belie genetics; Dawn Approach finished stone last.
They could test us in the same way at birth to find out what we are good at. A persons life would be determined by the test.
There is no way anyone would be able to compete with a genetically modified human. They would be better than us at everything.
Your right. Accept your limitations and move on. What else can you do.
@Duke; That’s the premise for the movie “Gattaca”. In the future a persons aptitude and predisposition can be determined through DNA tests.
I haven’t seen that movie. It’s feasible with the current technology but considered unethical. It’s a slippery slope no one wants to go down.
Me, my brother and sister all have a rare genetic disorder. If it wasn’t for modern medicine keeping us alive we would have perished. We’ve got the worst genes.
Not everyone can be the best but everyone can try their best is what my nan used to say.
@ Duke; Xcellente, I didn’t know that. Are you the 1st, 2nd or 3rd child? I was the middle of three. (Jan Brady syndrome).
You’d like Gattaca I think. Its one of those “triumph of the underdog despite seemingly overwhelming odds” type o movies.
@eloquent, pretty much everything you wish to change are dictated by habits so of course they’re hard to change and definitely do not happen over night especially if you’ve been practicing them for years. Like I said somewhere else, it’s easier to remain the same than to change – it takes less effort, less motivation.
Also, I do not believe it is genetic – not solely at least, I think it’s an environmental thing. Naturally, we tend to pick other people’s habits when we’re around them long enough.
Say you’re in a new place where no one speaks a language you know. You want to get to area Y but you’re in area X. There are two trains leaving area X: train A and train B – one goes to area Y, the other to some unknown place to us we shall call U.
Both trains leave at the same time, however 85% of the passengers line up at the platform for train A and the rest line up for B. There is no way of telling what or where destination U is so you cannot tell if it is more appealing to your or not. So, which one will you choose?
Well, that depends on what you’re comfortable with I believe. If you feel safer in numbers, are there enough people going on train B to satisfy that or are you going to follow the majority? If one group looks friendlier than the other are you more inclined to follow them?
So essentially part of it is to do with comfort, the people we want to be around and who we are around. I think if you’re going into something blind, essentially those are the three things you’re interested in. So think about when you were growing up from the sheepish child you once were. Do something enough, practice something enough and it becomes habit.
If you’re still not convinced, say you have four friends who spend pretty much the entire day with you. You enjoy their company and even this were not so, you can’t get rid of them – if they go lunch, you go to lunch. So if you all go to the mall together and they decide to have a sandwich at cafe A, are you going to do the same if you’re hungry? If the only other food place is right next door cafe A or within 200 metres, you may want to get food from there if you prefer it, and then join your friends because it’s convenient to do so. But what if it’s all the way in another wing on the other side of the mall, will you still go? If you have lunch regularly with them at cafe A rather than the food at cafe B which you prefer, then you’ve changed your ways to adapt.
@addicted, “some say it’s all hard work.” I say it’s part raw talent, but mostly hard work with a bit of luck. And the harder you work, the more skills you pick up and the luckier you are because there are more positive or desirable outcomes, i.e. the chances of a good outcome are higher.
99% luck. Being born to the right family, good genes, knowing the right person, etc.
If your limitations are severe enough, would the only way to move on be to die on the spot…?
“But problems will disappear if we stop thinking about them.”
Depending on your branch of philosophy, so may the broken iphone ;p