Posts Tagged ‘Blank slate’

Parent Wonder: Nature vs Nuture Interview

A few years ago I did an interview for an online parenting magazine, ParentWonder.com. Their founder, Abel Cheng conducted a very insightful discussion to investigate the importance of recognizing kid’s natural abilities and how parents can hone or nurture their kid’s innate gifts. 
Here is the full interview. 
PS.  Those of us who are parents of sporting dogs are [...]

Nurture Thy Hardwiring

What makes us good at some things and terrible at other things?  Nature and Nurture both play a role.  Behavioral genetics is unraveling the mystery locked in our DNA code and neuroscience is finding the same evidence in our brain circuits.  We aren’t born as blank slates, as conventionally thought.  We each have some of our own pre-existing hardwiring, and, we have a [...]

The Stimulus We Really Need

The aim of The Careerologist blog is to shine light on the underlying reasons why so few people are on the right career path. I’ve been a career design consultant for over 15 years and I’ve met a lot of unhappy people who are stuck in jobs that don’t utilize their natural talents. And lately, [...]