By learning how we have become what we are as a species, might we learn to nurture positive traits and marginalize harmful ones?
Games, whether played on coffee tables or on digital screens, are usually described as escapist diversions; we don't expect those hours of sweet nothingness to help us find fulfillment in our work, build strong relationships, cultivate confidence, or nurture other traits that serve the more amorphous cause of happiness.
In line with Einstein's assertion that "we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them", if society is to start thinking differently, our educational systems must be structured so as to nurture different traits in society.
After decades of debate, biologists have come to understand what was blindingly obvious to most laymen which is that rather than being shaped by nature or nurture, most behavioural traits are the result of an interaction between the two.
The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of otaku traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to become social outcasts.
Most people would agree that these differences among people, sometimes even between twins, are due to some combination of nature (genetic traits) and nurture (upbringing).
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The foundations are there for us to build on; all people, regardless of social or economic backgrounds are born with an entrepreneurial spirit, the key is to nurture and develop the traits and skills that define a successful entrepreneur.
Yet even Lawrence H. Summers, the former president of Harvard, might agree that medicine is a field for which women have a natural affinity, with the innate traits of being nurturing, intuitive and empathic.
Whether the condign desires or traits are instilled or nurtured, they need to be developed.
The importance of nature (genetic vulnerability) and nurture (environment) in the development of behavioral traits has been widely accepted over the last 50 years [ 28].
