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Yes, go me. I don't think you can really teach interpersonal skills anyway to be honest.0
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chewmylegoff wrote: »Yes, go me. I don't think you can really teach interpersonal skills anyway to be honest.
yes and no. behaviour has a genetic and environmental basis imho.
i think you can be taught to say please and thankyou. (environmental)
however i'm pretty sure you can't teach someone to be an extrovert or an introvert. (genetic)
empathy can be influenced by hormones. female to male transexuals often report a reduction in empathy and an increase in aggression when taking testosterone and the reverse is the case for male to females on oestrogen.
i guess your genes generally dictate the size of glass you are but environment influences what gets poured into it. you can't fit a pint in a shot glass but you can get pint glasses that have only been filled with shots.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
however i'm pretty sure you can't teach someone to be an extrovert or an introvert. (genetic)
I think you can probably make some one display introvert behaviour pretty easily. I'm equally sure that parental influence can make children fairly display obnoxiously extrovert behaviour. What I don't know, and honestly have never considered, is how for example, someone who might be genetically extrovert but conditioned to display extrovert behaviour, might feel and later respond.
On a re read I really like the way you expressed that in your post.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I think you can probably make some one display introvert behaviour pretty easily. I'm equally sure that parental influence can make children fairly display obnoxiously extrovert behaviour. What I don't know, and honestly have never considered, is how for example, someone who might be genetically extrovert but conditioned to display extrovert behaviour, might feel and later respond.
On a re read I really like the way you expressed that in your post.
i think possibly you are misinterpreting extroversion as confidence. i'm a confident introvert in that i have a very active "inner life". on the other hand an extrovert will be energised far more by external interactions. i don't think it has anything to do with being obnoxious or not.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
i think possibly you are misinterpreting extroversion as confidence. i'm a confident introvert in that i have a very active "inner life". on the other hand an extrovert will be energised far more by external interactions. i don't think it has anything to do with being obnoxious or not.
I'm not mistaking the two, though I agree they can be. Some one repeatedly ''knocked back'' for expression, interest, all manners of external interactions, may well cease to express them ...I do not know whether this might impact actually on their ''nature'', or merely the expression of it.0 -
yes and no. behaviour has a genetic and environmental basis imho.
i think you can be taught to say please and thankyou. (environmental)
however i'm pretty sure you can't teach someone to be an extrovert or an introvert.
I do agree, but I'm not sure I would classify basic politeness as interpersonal skills. I mean you could teach a dog to put it's paw on a card saying 'please' when it wanted some food.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »I do agree, but I'm not sure I would classify basic politeness as interpersonal skills. I mean you could teach a dog to put it's paw on a card saying 'please' when it wanted some food.
Yes, the two are different. BUT, animals do have interpersonal skills- or lack of them- and upbringing does impact on them. e.g. premature weaning etc. Many species of animal learn ''social boundaries'' from their dams and social group. If kept, for example, on groups of other weanlings with no adults, the social interaction is different.
(interestingly, it could be argued your dog shows both learned manners..the lifting its hand up, and arguably a social interaction - could it be deferring to the '' human'', e.g. why does it not simply remove the food itself? Learning to leave food is a hard job for many dogs! some dogs never acheive it and people have to put food away)0 -
Kennyboy66 wrote: »How would engineers cope without "bizarre" maths.
"Bizarre" maths is central to engineering, building, sciences, economics, computing.
I did'nt explain myself very well. I think pupils need to have a sound grasp of the basics of maths - something many still don't seem to have. The applied maths is important as you state, but it only means something to you if you understand the basics first...0
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