I'm a teacher.
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I'm a teacher. Some of my best behaviour tips come from dog training videos, but there isn't really a way to tell my colleagues which doesn't sound terrible.
@fesshole well, we are social mammals...
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I'm a teacher. Some of my best behaviour tips come from dog training videos, but there isn't really a way to tell my colleagues which doesn't sound terrible.
@fesshole Movie: "If a Man Answers", 1962. Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin
God, I'm old!
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The parts of the brain that handle emotions are very old, and they're very similar across many types of animals.
The fancy thinking parts of our brains are new, and riding around on top of that old limbic system trying to tell it what to do-- which doesn't work very well even in adults. Knee-jerk fear and so on is built to work faster than rational decision-making.
Children don't have very developed thinky parts yet. Even grownups need to understand that handling your own emotions is a lot like training yourself like an animal. It takes consistency, repetition, and time.
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The parts of the brain that handle emotions are very old, and they're very similar across many types of animals.
The fancy thinking parts of our brains are new, and riding around on top of that old limbic system trying to tell it what to do-- which doesn't work very well even in adults. Knee-jerk fear and so on is built to work faster than rational decision-making.
Children don't have very developed thinky parts yet. Even grownups need to understand that handling your own emotions is a lot like training yourself like an animal. It takes consistency, repetition, and time.
Re : "everybody needs to train themselves like an animal", Aristotle compared the conscious mind to a rider on the back of a powerful horse (the passions), which I thought was a good analogy because it still makes it clear you aren't getting anywhere without passion.
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