"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
—Martha Washington
Do we know if our dispositions stem from our circumstances, or our circumstances from our dispositions? According to new research done by Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard, people are born with their dispositions. He has proven that it is possible to see in infants the characteristics of an anxious personality. I would like to see the research that shows us how to improve our dispositions, and by extension, our circumstances.
About Me
- QUOTIDIANNE
- I am a writer with a lifelong fascination with words. My first memory of the power of words was recognizing that "T E R R O R" not only meant 'terror' but that the letters strung together as they are enough to instill terror. I love looking at the quotes of other people and seeing how they can be so relative to everyday life. There are so many words out there, there is so much being said, and so much of it is being recorded and then accessible at a moment's notice. My blog is to take those sound bites and freeze them, add my own sound bite, and offer them both up and out to the world for the world to take a second, closer look and really see what has been said.
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