How much of what we do and feel is learned from other people?

“In 1961, Bandura conducted a controversial experiment known as the Bobo doll experiment, to study patterns of behavior, at least in part, by social learning theory, and that similar behaviors were learned by individuals shaping their own behavior after the actions of models.

The experiment was criticized by some on ethical grounds, for training children towards aggression. Bandura’s results from the Bobo Doll Experiment changed the course of modern psychology, and were widely credited for helping shift the focus in academic psychology from pure behaviorism to cognitive psychology. The experiment is among the most lauded and celebrated of psychological experiments.” YouTube

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“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.” ~Frida Kahlo

The biggest concern for any organization should be when their most passionate people become quiet.

Make good art!!!

“Existential philosophers acknowledge that we are born into webs of relationships, and they explore how relations with others infuse our world with meaning and modify our possibilities. Existential thinking brings to light complexities, knowledge, and expressions of romantic loving because it provides a language to understand and reflect on our being in the world and being with others, and it expands our knowledge about possibilities and dynamics of relationships.”

Skye Cleary, author of Existentialism and Romantic Love via Brainpickings

Fiercely feminine, wild woman.
Stay connected to your soul.
Find time for solitude and stillness.
Ask yourself what it is that you want for yourself, your Self.
Once you know,
you cannot help but live it.

~ alisabarry

 

“No matter how sophisticated you may be,
a large granite mountain cannot be denied –
it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”
~ Ansel Adams

Finally. Someone. Understands.