Money Changes The Way We Think And Behave Summary

Nurture can affect one individual success because depending on what enviroment you grow up in you will either have a lot of privialge or be not as privalaged. In “ Money Changes the Way we Think and Behave” author Caolyn Gregoire explains how when you are raised with more money you are less empathetic to others: “ Several Studies have shown that wealth may be at odds with empathy and comassion”( Gregoire, 6). The text portrays the idea that the wealthy people dont feel for the lower class. This supports the theory that external factors play a vital role in a persons fututre because wealthy grow up with so much money they can symppathize eiht the less fortunate. The conclusion that can be drawn is that external factors such as having a great
These factors can impact you before and after birth. In “ The Science of Success” author David Dobbs uses dandelions and orchids to represent two differnt kinds of peopel. The dandelions represetn genes that make us, “as hardy as dandelions, able to take root and survive almost anywhere”(Dobbs,1). However some of us are more like orchids that are fragile but if taken care of properly can blume to the most beutiful flowers. Researchers started to study this theory and wanted to see whether kids with a risk allele for ADHD would respond as much to positive neviroments as to negative. They also got kids who had the “protective allele” who were suposdely less vulnurable to bad envirometns. The test came in and the kids who had the risk alelle were more successful. The author writes,”... the toddlers wih the risk allele blew right by their counterparts. They cut their externalizing scores by almsot 27 percent, while the protective alelle kids cut theirs by just 12 percent” (Dodds,13). This part of the articel about how people wiht the risk allele are more succesfful in positive envirmonents shows how factors like these can make you flourish in life. At the same time, if not taken care of properly the ountcome wont be the