A predominance of the right over the left frontal lobe, caused by damage to the latter, might thus lead to a quest for new experience.
"Twenty Fragments" follows Fenfang, a young peasant, who at 17 leaves her village for bustling, changing Beijing, determined to make her way, but not completely sure how to satiate her appetite for new experience.
The stories she tells in lush, cinematic scope, like movies made up of only still images are often drawn from stories in her own childhood: the adventures of a group of adolescent girls hungry for new experience; the trauma of two young sisters who venture too close to a hornet's nest.
The accessibility of new plants, together with avidity for new experience and a high-minded concern with natural science, not only gave renewed life to the flower garden but was the first step toward the evolution of the garden from work of art to museum of plants.
Openness to change, which is part of an individual's perception of tradition, and self-enhancement, which is part of an individual's perception of self-direction have been used in the consumer innovativeness literature to explain the desire for new experience (Hartman et al. 2006; Steenkamp et al. 1999).
Must you know everything?/Must you have a part in everything?" aligning the nose with humanity itself and our endless thirst for new experience and knowledge.
