Birth Order, Personality, and Mistakes

(Note: The Human brain is basically magical. We can overcome anything that we start out with, all it takes is quite a bit of effort.)
I've been reading a few articles here and there, and watched a TED speech today, and more and more they seem to be finding that we're very much controlled by our genes. Our personalities tend to be similar through-out our lives from 1st Grade on, while our behaviors change throughout the years, or rather, how we act out our personality changes due to our experiences in life.

Evidently when you were born is actually a bit important to how your personality gets set, so long as your siblings are still around before 1st grade. Of course every family life is different, but there is a general idea for the average family. You can check out the article that explains it a little more in depth here.

Finally, there are some mistakes that the majority of us make that are completely and utterly genetic. Specifically, this research was done on a sort of financial level, where they found people didn't look at the beginning and end result, but they thought of finances as relative to what you have to what you'll get.

In other words, if someone offered $1000 and one of two choices for extra money, those two choices being:
Take a Risk                               Play It Safe
Flip a coin-                                Get another $500.
Heads = Extra $1000
Tails = $0

Most people would play it safe, but when offered $2000, and given two options, being:
Take a Risk                               Play It Safe
Flip a coin-                                Lose $500
Heads = Lose $1000
Tails = Lose $0

Most people actually choose to take the risk, but in both situations you have the choice of $1000 or $2000, or a guaranteed $1500. Not to be completely discouraged, monkeys make the same mistake. See more on that in Laurie Santos' TED speech here.

Weird, I sure went on one there.....

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