Nature and Nurture

I have always been fond of reading articles on self development and counselling. The Speaking Tree in the Times of India is my favourite and it was there in fact where I found write ups that I could relate to. In the beginning  when I had started reading  such articles I observed that the articles or books which I read  seemed  very elementary to me, they spoke of things, thoughts and actions which I thought were or should have been very obvious and apparent to understand to everyone reading them. But I found people around me simply wonderstruck at some minor example of basic enlightenment which had come to me by way of nurturing. Such experiences started becoming more frequent and I realised that things that were clear to me at first instant were not necessarily obvious to someone else.

I started becoming more inquisitive on the fundamental conditioning of the human mind. It was nature and nurture both that played a very important role in everyone’s life. I still don’t possess the authority to claim the dominating factor between the two but I take the liberty to comment. Nature is  the pre-requisite and is like a mirror which reflects the nurturing,  clearer the mirror pristine is the reflection. If  the mirror is not plane but concave or convex then the reflections either appear distorted or near or farther, but good will appear as good and bad as bad, the image does not change. So the ability to reflect  is entirely independent of what is to be reflected. Now, If the mirror is not clear, no matter how good an object  you place in front of it the image will not be exactly the same.  Nurturing is equally important because, even if the mirror is clear bad objects will never be reflected as good. This may conclude as  nature and nurture both are important inevitable for our conditioning.

Lets see some examples of conditioning  ....

A survey made by few writers has shown that in more than 70% of the cases the top leaders of companies are above average in their height. Now they say when people in ancient times had to migrate from one place to another endangering survival the group was always led by the tallest simply for the reason that he had a better view-span than the rest. This went on for ages and passed through the genes conditioning our brain towards (percentage wise more)  preferring the thought that a taller man can lead better than an average heighted. How’s that!

Our worst habit of throwing litter on roads is also a part of nurturing, lately while watching several old movie flicks it was observed that characters on the screen casually crumpled the paper they were holding and flung it around, same was for a banana peel. These action have unknowingly made an impact on all of us. So now there should be movies which should deliberately include shots where litter, paper or any waste being disposed of in a waste bin, at least the character has to be seen giving a thought to it and not disposing it very casually. May be the future generations will get the benefits. 

I am sure we all will be amazed at what conditioning of brain does to all of us, what you condition your brain with is nurturing and the ability to succumb to such nurturing is the nature.