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Do you think that our mentalities change as we get older or by the good and bad experiences we suffer through life?
I have been thinking about this for a while. We don't think the same every day... do we? Do we care about our needs only? Do we care about helping others? Do we get softer emotionaly or do our needs change as we get older? There are so many questions... but it only comes down to what you feel and think right now this very moment of your life.
What do you guys think?
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2006-08-23 05:43:52 · 19 answers · asked by Soa 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Both. Experiences teach you lessons, and hence increase your understanding. Age, and the accumulation of insights, knowledge gained by these experiences give you the ability to assess the experiences, and make best use of them, maybe change you, your personlities forever.
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2006-08-23 14:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by Starreply 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think they are one and the same. Every day we get older, at the same time we are experiencing new things. As each new event unfolds, it shapes our opinions, outlooks, goals, values. I think you are mistaken to think that you should only concentrate on what you think and feel right now. One of the most important things that separate us from the animal realm is the ability to think about the future. For instance, I'm sure a lot of people, myself included, married too young. If I had been thinking of my future AT ALL, I may have realized that I would change alot during my young 20's and what I wanted them would be very different in a few years after I had matured. Just an example of how a little forethought can make a huge difference
2006-08-23 05:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by Gatorgal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only express my personal opinion on this, after all we are all different. For myself I made up my mind to be happy when I was just a lad. I've had some dark moments along the way but hey, who hasn't? Good, bad; happy; sad; it's all interesting in it's own way. Just to enjoy the feel of the wind, or the sun warming up my back; little things that anyone can have for a moment; that's what has maintained it all for me. I agree with you about the moments, it's all we have when one considers it. In the end we lose the moments, why not enjoy them while you've got them; that's my way. There isn't any change in the weather, there isn't any change in me. Still just me. So then, if I can't change I never do! I hope you enjoy your moments, long may you run!
2006-08-23 07:36:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i imagine both age and experiance help mould our way of wondering. both sensible and unfavourable experiances have an outcome on us, no matter if we do not comprehend it on the time. we are continuously getting to carry close, on an same time when we are no longer concious of it. accordingly, our theory procedure is conditioned through what we learn from our experiances. If someone has an excellent form of undesirable issues take position to them, they'll have a tendency to lean in direction of the unfavourable of their deepest concepts, and are available to anticipate the worst. Age performs an element through adulthood. As we improve older, and earnings experiance our personalities and theory procedure matures. We come to settle for issues that we refused to believe when we were youthful, and oftentimes have more desirable tolorance for colleges of theory except our own. A 4 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old is going to have a harder time information why daddy left than a 16 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old might want to. We improve the skill to weigh our concepts and concepts, and change into able to take time to imagine issues through, rather of rushing off with the first theory that pops in our heads. So back I say, i think that both age and experiance impression the way we anticipate of.
2016-11-27 00:47:13 · answer #4 · answered by pavoni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have learned so much in my 45 years that it has all made me a better person. I take time to think things thru and I never did that when I was younger. But I would have never been the person I am today if I had not been where I use to be. Life is a change reaction of things that you do. Not only it affects your life, but others around you.
2006-08-23 05:52:03 · answer #5 · answered by buckeye45694 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As we get older the more experiences we have so I believed that both contribute to the changes that taking place everyday in our lives. We learn from our experiences and eventually our outlook in life changes.
2006-08-24 22:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by Heaven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me personally it is a combination of both. Age can have an affect on how our experiences mold us. Losing my father in my 30's effected me diffrently then if had lost him as a child. I hope we become wiser with age but I will need to live to be 200 to do enough good things to reverse the harm I caused as a youth.
2006-08-23 05:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely experience, just because you are 65, does not mean you have experienced all there is to offer in life. This person could have had a very sheltered life, where as a person who is 30 may have gone through a death, a life, relationships, heartbroken, bankruptcy, etc.
2006-08-23 05:55:29 · answer #8 · answered by tdogg1971 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My outlook on life comes from the experiences and my age. because it does change with the way I think and I how I feel. It changes with every person that Ive met and how they act and how I act around them.
2006-08-23 05:50:50 · answer #9 · answered by Dani021 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little bit of both... but I'd say mostly by experiences. Through experience we learn about things and make us determine whether to keep them or get rid of them; or whether they're beneficial to us or detrimental. You mostly make use of your experience as your reference, like when dealing with something that has happened before... like you don't want to commit the same mistake you have committed the first time.
2006-08-23 06:07:26 · answer #10 · answered by Mike N. D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋