Emergenetics

Yesterday went to a talk at NTU about tapping into the brain. Well Friday I had no lessons, the only thing is this seminar. Well some told me are you crazy? Just going to school for this kind of talk. But after attending this talk I'm so amazed how we are all wired up when we go through the process of growing up. And our behavior, temperament and IQ are actually almost genetically preset. From what I can remember, 20 - 30% of our temperament and 30 - 60% of our IQ are passed down genetically! Means that part of your behavior and IQ is already preset once you are born. Of course during our growing process we learn and change. From the age from baby it's best to teach your child all sorts of skills like reading and talents, once at ages 12 - 15 your brain takes a break from all those thinking and learning. There's were teenagers become rebellious and have their own thinking cause it's the period where they start to have their own principals and values. After that, their values will stick with them for life. And we continue to learn and change our behavior up till about the age of 20. And after 20, we tweak our abilities and behaviors to become better. At the age of 30, that's it, we are what we have become.

We played a game, which was very interesting that she was able to guess what we wrote. it's not hocus pocus. It's actually because we are all wired in the brain to write that answer already. Amazing.

Our brain loves challenges and newness. To be able to have an efficient brain, the speaker mentions about a few things we can do:

Diet
Exercise
Challenge
Newness
Love

The first few we always have heard of it. But for love, hey that's something new, to be smarter, you need love! It can come from your parents, or siblings or your love partner. All the showers of love and motivation maybe make our brain feel good and we also learn from our partners and simulate each other. Love make you live longer and smarter. Wow.

I read today in the papers that lonely people are lonely because..... their immune system is all in a mess. Again it touched on genetic relation as there are genes which codes for lonliness?

Do genes control part of our lives? I don't know but seems that studies have already come out some proven facts. In years maybe we will know.....