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“We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.”
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
“When we come into the world, we have the innate tendencies, motivations, and goals that make up nature's effect, anticipating to some extent the general conditions of our life, but then nurture's effect takes over to adapt us to the actual conditions on the ground.”
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
“Why do you suppose teenagers like scary horror movies so much? Because physiological arousal from watching, say, ax-wielding maniacs or malevolent spirits transfers into sexual feelings and attraction to the person they're seeing the movie with.”
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
“Almost every generation believes that art and music and the work ethic and you name it aren't as good as they used to be ... historians have noted how the belief that society is changing for the worse is a constant going back thousands of years.”
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
“By using unconscious means to self-regulate, making "necessary evils" such as healthy eating and exercising and studying a routine part of their lives, they make the positive activities a routine habit so that they don't need to fight to get started, or overcome the disinclination to do them. Conscious and effortful self-control is too taxing and too unreliable, and as we know, vulnerable to rationalizations and excuses.”
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
― Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
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