The human baby is the most helpless of all infants born in the mammalian world. the problem isnt with the physical structures as such ..everybody organ is well formed when its born .. but the trouble lies with the Brain. It is grossly inadequate at the time of birth to manage a body of a human ..enable- bipedal motion ..speech ..color and binocular vision ..and most of all think ..!!!
but then why is it born so .. well the embargo on the size of the brain and consequently the head is laid down by the female pelvis through which it would pass ..!!..so the poor chap is left with no option but to do a large part of the development in the extra-uterine life .
How much is the lag ..?? as i said earlier .. man isnt just a more intelligent ape .. it is a huge evolutionary leap involving all the systems .. and the boss of all these the brain needs to be pretty much active to control all these diverse parts in the way and to the extent it is required .
so .. with a brain around 1/10the the size of the adult at birth .. by the time a child is just three years old .. his brain has reached near adult size ..!!!!
what does it mean ..???... that in the first three years of life .. the brain is growing like crazy ..leaving all else behind ..and so .. what do we need to do .??
Lots of proteins for the baby .. to build up those neurons .. and enough of omega 3 fatty acids to help develop the brain.
and besides that lots of stimulus .. in all aspects .. touch ,sound,sight,hearing,speech..and ofcourse....thought provoking games.. music .. books ..stories ..and NO Television..why..?? thats another story .
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Cattels 16 personality factor test
Finally got time to go to the psychologist to get my 16pft analyzed. Hmmm.. its a test that was devised by Cattel .and is a questionnaire based thing....the most important factor in it is that it is about self awareness..how well do u know yourself..at first i thought its pretty easy to fake .. but then there is a distortion score which lets you know how true you have been ..!!
The validity of this .. i dont know .. cos when the test is based on your answers about yourself .. then ofcourse the results have to be agreeable to you .. i mean after all it tells you how you look at yourself ..!!so by default the results will appear to be true to you .. hmm but then comes the question of is it really correct .. does it give a true picture .. or only a picture seen through your own eyes ..??
Then there is the Eysencks personality inventory(EPI) ..and again ..the Minessotta multiple personality inventory (MMPI)..does it make myself more self aware now that i am analysed and all .??...in a way having your personality traits being put into words .. having actual adjectives being used to describe yourself is a strange experience in itself . Quite a rarity in india infact ..... would i have ever done it if it wasnt part of my practicals ..i doubt it.
The validity of this .. i dont know .. cos when the test is based on your answers about yourself .. then ofcourse the results have to be agreeable to you .. i mean after all it tells you how you look at yourself ..!!so by default the results will appear to be true to you .. hmm but then comes the question of is it really correct .. does it give a true picture .. or only a picture seen through your own eyes ..??
Then there is the Eysencks personality inventory(EPI) ..and again ..the Minessotta multiple personality inventory (MMPI)..does it make myself more self aware now that i am analysed and all .??...in a way having your personality traits being put into words .. having actual adjectives being used to describe yourself is a strange experience in itself . Quite a rarity in india infact ..... would i have ever done it if it wasnt part of my practicals ..i doubt it.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
: Time - Pink Floyd
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
: Time - Pink Floyd
Sunday, August 26, 2007
An Ode to Laziness
I lazed away a sunday in front of the idiot box .. watching one movie after another .. with the grey cells working overtime all over the week .. maybe it helps to shutoff any thinking process and gape at the rapidly shifting images that the screen throws at you. the Parasympathetic system kicks in ..and ..bye bye adrenaline...
The day goes by .. the unshaven chin flourishes into a stubble over the weekend ..books lying in the bookshelf throw accusing glances at me ...like a girlfriend betrayed .. and yet the perverse pleasure of lying on the couch with work undone ...shopping postponed .. presentations unmade .. and the triumph of laziness over guilt ...is my way of getting back in a small way at the world that keeps throwing deadlines at me..and thats that.
But would an ode to laziness be complete without a mention of Dunbar from Joseph Hellers immortal Catch-22.....who believed the only way to prolong life is to indulge in the most boring and unpleasant tasks possible so that the finite period of time that we have would seem longer ..period.
The day goes by .. the unshaven chin flourishes into a stubble over the weekend ..books lying in the bookshelf throw accusing glances at me ...like a girlfriend betrayed .. and yet the perverse pleasure of lying on the couch with work undone ...shopping postponed .. presentations unmade .. and the triumph of laziness over guilt ...is my way of getting back in a small way at the world that keeps throwing deadlines at me..and thats that.
But would an ode to laziness be complete without a mention of Dunbar from Joseph Hellers immortal Catch-22.....who believed the only way to prolong life is to indulge in the most boring and unpleasant tasks possible so that the finite period of time that we have would seem longer ..period.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
creativity and artistry
are they the same things .. being artistic and being creative ..? i mean it is possible to be creative .. but that creativity need not be artistically or aesthetically appealing .. a creative person can design a new software .. design a new experiment ..a new instrument .. but are these works of art ..??
creativity is like a universal set out of which a smaller set of people are the ones who are artistic.
Creative has to be something new .. ..but does something artistic necessarily be a new creation .. if it isnt new is it still art ..??..maybe not art .. but still artistic cant it be ..?/ so Artistic neednt be altogether a subset of creative .. maybe an overlapping smaller set.
creativity is like a universal set out of which a smaller set of people are the ones who are artistic.
Creative has to be something new .. ..but does something artistic necessarily be a new creation .. if it isnt new is it still art ..??..maybe not art .. but still artistic cant it be ..?/ so Artistic neednt be altogether a subset of creative .. maybe an overlapping smaller set.
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