Consultation for
parents
"What do we know about
nature"
Land, water, forest - our wealth, our well-being, our health.
Let us recall the words of M. Prishvin: “For a fish - water, for a bird - air, for an animal - a forest, steppes - mountains. And a man needs a homeland. And to protect nature means to protect the Motherland.
But people inflict big and small wounds on nature: they pollute the air and water, animals and plants disappear forever. So everyone needs to know:
- What rules of behavior must be observed in nature so as not to harm it?
- What is written in the documents on the protection of nature?
- What part does each of you take in conservation work?
Let's talk about the little wounds of nature.
- You can not break branches of trees and shrubs, pick flowers, catch butterflies, dragonflies and other insects, destroy frogs and toads.
Wouldn't it be worse for nature if you break a few branches while collecting nuts, or pick three or four flowers, or catch a single butterfly?
Yes, nature will be worse!
- Every branch broken in vain, every flower plucked, every butterfly caught is a small wound inflicted on nature. And if you inflict one such wound, your comrades inflict another such, someone else inflicts a third, fourth, fifth - what will become of nature? But nature is now very difficult to heal even the smallest wounds.
Great misfortune threatens nature from great wounds.
For a long time, people on Earth have been engaged in farming: they build cities and villages, highways and railways, cultivate fields. All this is necessary for life. But often, in order to build a city, pave a road or create a new field, one has to destroy forests: they cut down trees for the sake of wood, which people need a lot. That is why there are less and less forests on earth.
But the air and water are becoming more and more polluted. You know that they are necessary for the life of plants, animals, and humans. But from factories and factories, smoke and dust get into the air, and into rivers and lakes - wastewater with various harmful substances.
Due to the fact that forests are becoming smaller, and air and water are being polluted, many plants and animals are suffering. However, they have a hard time for another reason. People often tear up beautiful plants, and sometimes animals are brutally exterminated for the sake of fur or meat, and sometimes just like that, for fun.
Many plants and animals that used to be common are now rare. They are listed in the Red Book. Due to the fault of people, sea cows, passenger pigeons, but also many other animals and birds, insects, and plants have disappeared forever.
What do you need to know about conservation?
Now the people of the world have realized that the nature of our planet is in danger. Therefore, many countries are big job for the protection of nature. Such work is being carried out in our country.
Many plants and factories have been converted and no longer pollute the air and water.
In place of cut down forests, people plant new ones.
It is forbidden to collect rare plants and hunt rare animals.
Reserves are being created - areas where all nature is inviolable.
Of course, people still continue to use nature. But this must be done in such a way as not to cause harm to nature.
Unfortunately, not all people want and know how to protect nature.
A small child explores the world with an open mind and heart. And how he will relate to this world, whether he will be a zealous owner who understands nature, largely depends on the adults who direct his upbringing.
The goal of environmental education is to form in children a conscious understanding of the interconnections of all living and non-living things in nature.
Until then: until a person changes his attitude to the world around him from minus to plus, no constructive practical actions can be expected from him, which means that the accumulated conceptual knowledge is not for future use.
Changing the concept of life arrangement in the country and on planet earth
begins with a change in personal attitude to the world around us, otherwise we will constantly reproduce in practice what we are trying to fight in words. Only a positive attitude to everything that surrounds us will open our eyes and encourage us to act, based on knowledge.
Therefore, starting from early childhood in order to form a positive (positive) attitude towards nature, it is necessary to show children its uniqueness, beauty, universality: nature is the living environment of all creatures, including humans; the object of knowledge, the satisfaction of its aesthetic needs; and only then - the object of human consumption. We must protect nature not because it gives us something, but because it is valuable in itself.
When asked how to form a humane attitude towards nature in children, V. Sukhomlinsky considered:“Given the age characteristics of preschoolers, which include impressionability and emotional responsiveness, through compassion, empathy, which help the child enter the life of another living being from the inside”
It is the feelings of compassion, empathy that determine the actual attitude of children to nature, expressed in the willingness to showcare for those in need, protect those in need, protect those who are offended, help those in need (animals, plants andetc.). They think that only active position promotes mastering the skills and habits of caring for pets, indoor plants winteringbirds, etc. And the ability to sympathize, empathize gradually develops an emotional ban on actions that cause suffering and pain to all living things. In our opinion, it is very important to show children that in relation to nature they take a position more forte Therefore, we must patronize her, we must protect her and take care of her!
This is completely unfair, especially given that the cosmos knows exactly what it is doing. From a physics point of view, there are some very attractive, promising theories that start the answer to the question above, but we don't and probably won't know which one is right. Perhaps it was born out of an inherently unstable "nothing". You should know that emptiness is not actually empty, matter and energy are spontaneously born and die in it, at least in the form of quantum fluctuations. Perhaps our universe is not the only one of its kind, but one of a practically infinite number. Perhaps all this is just. Much of our ignorance comes down to the fact that we are still waiting for the next generation of cosmic measurements that will confirm or disprove the latest theories, and we also need more flexible and comprehensive theories, and not just mathematical elegance. In general, we do not know why all this exists and even happens. Usually "why" always exists.
We don't know what dark matter and dark energy are.
Big problems mean even bigger problems. Ordinary matter, of which we are made, planets, stars and sausage sandwiches, is about 4.9% of all the matter that fills the universe. 26.8% of matter is "dark," and we know this because, on large scales, cosmic material is moving faster than it should, and galaxies behave as if they are controlled by a huge mass of particles invisible to us. And we have no idea what these particles are. This is bad, but the situation is even worse with dark energy. Something is causing the universe to expand faster and faster. It shouldn't be like that. Until 5 or 6 billion years ago after the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe was stable, but something interfered, some invisible component, perhaps some kind of dense vacuum energy that fills space as it grows. What is it? We do not know. We have a lot of assumptions, which is basically a good idea to assume something about 68.3% of the universe.
We don't know if there is life anywhere else
This question is incredibly interesting already because events can be assumed and located regardless of the answer. Here we are, beings on a planet full of flourishing life, carefully adapting to the physical and chemical conditions of life for the last 5 billion years. We also know that there are an awful lot of planets in the universe, and many of them could also host life. However, we do not know for sure if we are alone. And no hints. This is problem. It's a good problem, as I said, regardless of the answer, but few people move around trying to find the answer to this question. Although too much may depend on its resolution.
We probably don't quite understand the quantum world
Indeed, our current quantum physics in theory (and in practice) works wonders, describing atoms and molecules along with the bizarre nature of entanglement and qubits. But that doesn't mean we're quantummech gurus. Rather the opposite. It is enough to read summaries on quantum issues to understand that the most fundamental aspects of the quantum nature of the universe still cause headaches and disagreements. People keep coming up with formulations of how quantum mechanics defines us, or doesn't define us. The problem is exacerbated when quantum physics plunges into the realm of soft, warm, and wet biology. Not to mention black holes and .
We don't understand our own biology
It's not an exaggeration to say that we don't understand how every detail of ours works. If we understood (and we are moving in this direction), we would cope with disease, death, begin to grow limbs and restore memory. We could master genetic engineering at the level of demigods and understand how to make the brain work hundreds of times faster. If you want a good example of our ignorance, let there be microflora. There is a joke that if aliens find us, they will not understand with whom to start a conversation: with the bacteria that inhabit us, or with us? Ten trillion human cells are supplemented, used, saturated with hundreds of trillions of microbes - we carry a kilogram of bacteria and archaea with us and cannot live without them. They're in our guts, lungs, noses, everywhere. We're just cruise ships for germs.
We don't know how the earth works
Let's dive deeper. Neither man nor robot, no one went deeper into the Earth than a few kilometers, everything else is in charge of probes and physical analyzes that are far from the essence of the matter. It took us ridiculously too long to figure out that the skin of our planet is constantly moving: plate tectonics was not generally accepted until the middle of the 20th century. We are still not sure how the internal dynamo works, how convecting magma rolls generate our planet's magnetic field. At the same time, so much has happened in geophysics over 4.5 billion years that some of our best information about the origin of the planet arrives with meteorites and hides in the craters of other worlds. We don't even know for sure where the moon came from. Maybe there was a giant collision, maybe not. For supposedly smart creatures on a small rocky planet, this is a complete failure.
We cannot prove or solve many of our own mathematical hypotheses and problems
If mathematicians think they can avoid this festival of ignorance, let's just remind ourselves that we have a long list of unproven, unsolved problems and unverified hypotheses. With all this, it has not yet been decided exactly how accurately mathematics describes the world and whether mathematics is at the very foundation of the universe.
We do not know how to make artificial intelligence
We mention this because it is an eternal problem. Also because we often write about the development of artificial intelligence (or about its pathetic attempts to get back on its feet). After all, trying to create artificial intelligence is trying to understand ourselves. Because in order to create something artificial, you need to know how the original works. While our machines have come a long way, it's still not clear whether services like the YouTube search engine or some other big name can work the same way that ideas pop into our heads. Whether a machine can think at all is the question.
Findings? There are a lot of things that we do not know (much more than the examples in this article). But you should not fall into despondency, and ignorance is not strength. In the end, the thirst to discover and the desire to think launched the flywheel of science, and the Universe is the most difficult riddle in the history of mankind. Perhaps hundreds of years will pass, and we will not know anything.
Ebola and Zika, swine and bird flu - all new names of terrible viruses emerge and multiply at an alarming rate, and hundreds of people die from the effects of these viruses. Why are infectious disease specialists and virologists unable to stay ahead of and timely extinguish outbreaks of deadly diseases? With this and other questions, the columnist for MIA Rossiya Segodnya turned to the Deputy Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Academician Viktor Maleev.
Viruses are not a far-fetched threat. In the pathology of people, infections occupy a significant place, and most of them are viral. It's just that not all of them are open yet, and new ones open periodically. It is important to understand here: viruses are a product of nature, and all changes in nature and in humans cause changes in them, and they, in turn, change their environment. My colleague Professor Eduard Karamov came to the conclusion that changes in the nature of viruses are associated with changes in the structure of the oceans, coral islands, and many other global natural metamorphoses.
New viruses constantly appear, many of them are disease-causing, pathogenic, in addition, already known ones mutate. And the fact that science is not always able not only to predict these changes, but also to track them, only shows how little we have studied nature, in which there is immeasurably more unexplored than studied. And viruses, I repeat, component natural factors.
- Periodically, there are reports that another virus was developed in secret laboratories as biological weapons, and now, by someone's evil will, he broke out ...
- I also recently heard on television that, allegedly, Rockefeller trades. I just can’t understand why he needs it - what, he has nothing else to trade?
Seriously, there are many laboratories in the world that study and cultivate viral cultures - for research, medical purposes. Doctors are constantly exchanging strains of viruses among themselves, and now we will probably ask the WHO ( World Organization health care) strains of the Zika virus to see what it is, to test on experimental organisms. Without studying certain dangerous infections, we will not be able to develop vaccines against them.
— Virus danger in last years really intensified, or is it some kind of subjective feeling caused by the mass of media reports?
- Someone says that we will be destroyed by an asteroid ... There are many versions of the coming end of the world, and viruses are one of them. Information certainly plays a role. Nevertheless, it, information, is not from scratch. The scale of the spread of diseases, deaths from certain infections - all this, unfortunately, as a rule, actually happens.
- You say that we still know little about viruses - but why? After all, other viral cultures have existed for millions of years ...
I repeat: we do not know nature very well. And we try to influence it, in most cases without imagining the consequences. When I was at school, there was a poster on the wall in our classroom with a portrait of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin and his quote: "We cannot wait for favors from nature. It is our task to take them from her." Throughout its history, mankind has invaded nature, changing it. The environment around us is changing, the person himself is changing. We have learned how to quickly move around the planet - infections began to move faster with us. The spread of drug addiction led to the spread of AIDS. Sexual emancipation - to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Fashion for tattoos and piercings - to an increase in the number of cross-infections, including viral hepatitis.
Science does not stand still, but the study of nature is objectively not as fast a process as its "conquest". Of all the causative agents of human diseases, only about 5% are still known, not to mention the causative agents of diseases of other representatives of the fauna - animals, birds.
“Nevertheless, humanity has managed to defeat many terrible diseases of the past years - epidemics of smallpox, plague, cholera no longer happen, and if they happen somewhere, they do not get fatal distribution.
- Some infectious diseases can really be dealt with. Some infections can be defeated by vaccination. Antiviral vaccines, on the other hand, are far from always being developed. There is still no vaccine for AIDS, although huge amounts of money are being invested in its development. In the USA, I visited a huge complex, stuffed with the most expensive equipment, where an AIDS vaccine is being developed, but there is still no vaccine, although this virus has been known for more than a decade. There are still no vaccines for hepatitis C and malaria.
There are many reasons for this. Viruses mutate quickly, it is difficult to study their structures, there were cases when vaccines only worsened the situation - as happened, for example, with the polio vaccine, some vaccines are addictive.
The fact is that the criteria developed by Louis Pasteur for bacterial infections are not suitable for viruses. But even with regard to bacterial infections, one cannot speak of a complete victory over them. So far, only smallpox has been completely eradicated, and nothing else has succeeded, but smallpox can still be difficult. Its place in nature was taken by monkeypox, which was discovered in Africa. Thank God, she has not yet escaped anywhere, unlike the Zika virus, which also did not make itself felt before.
But who knows what might happen tomorrow? Why do focal infections suddenly break out of their endemic zone and begin to spread across the planet? Someone associates this with ecology, someone with urbanization, someone with climate change ... They associate it with the El Niño phenomenon (fluctuations in the temperature of the surface water layer in the equatorial part Pacific Ocean). But, of course, no one knows for sure. Although for infections, I think the climate is still of great importance. A simple example: meteorologists are not always able to correctly predict the weather. But influenza outbreaks depend on the weather, they are seasonal. In the summer, influenza epidemics, as a rule, do not happen.
- In order to develop a new vaccine based on the obtained strain of the virus, it takes at least six months. And the virus can change literally in a matter of days - even just passing through the human body, for example, with impaired immunity, with HIV infection.
Everything in nature changes. A person is changing - our ancestors, for example, were much more lean. Our habits and lifestyle are changing. People take many drugs almost uncontrollably, food additives The pharmaceutical industry is operating at full capacity. And all this makes viruses and bacteria change with us.
On the shelves of bookstores and on the Internet you can find many useful information about how to achieve those desires to which a person aspires. Indeed, many of the human techniques that have been brought to the table work effectively if they are understood and used correctly. But what else does a person not know about the nature of his desires, besides what can be emphasized from other articles and books?
Why can’t you say the word “I want” in your goals and desires?
When this word is spoken, a person focuses the attention of the Universe on the fact that he does not have this. In many books it is written that you need to talk about your aspirations as if they have already come true! Therefore, you should express your desire without the word “I want”, as if you already have it, you are calm and accustomed to its presence in your life. For example, saying "I want to reset excess weight!”, the woman focuses on the fact that she has excess weight. A woman talks about him, which means she has. You should say something like this: “My weight is a certain number of kilograms!”.
Why do you dream about something or strive for what you want?
Why don't you just live and keep the lifestyle you want? By continuing to dream and go towards it, you again focus the attention of the Universe on the lack of what you want. But if you immediately begin to live the way you want, you will begin to focus on having what you want in your life.
Do you really want it?
“If the Lord wants to punish a person, he simply fulfills his desires” - have you ever thought about the meaning of this expression? Why? Maybe you should at least sometimes think about whether you really want to have what you want to have? People very often dream about something strongly (about a family, about children, about wealth, about work, etc.), forgetting about what would happen to them if their desires came true. Imagine that your wish came true. Are you ready for a real manifestation of desire with all its negative and positive qualities, difficulties, for maintaining it in harmony, concessions and patience in connection with various obstacles that will arise as a result of the realization of your desire? Do not forget that everything has both positive and negative qualities. Are you ready for both, not just positive moments your desire?
Any thought forms are realized
The subconscious subconsciously implements all your thoughts, regardless of whether they are negative or positive. This is worth remembering every time you start thinking about something. Imagine that you live in a world where all your thoughts immediately become reality. What do you think this world would be like: hell or heaven? Try to control your thoughts, even if they are not yet your desires.
During the day, you periodically go into the astral plane, where you do not need to want, but simply take it and do it. This is the intention - you have everything you want, take it and do it. One should only be aware of this way out in order to stimulate the rapid realization of one's desires. In the same way, it is possible to introduce thoughts to other people, moving into their body during visualization and programming them for a certain train of thought.
Benedict Spinoza
What is a person? What is a person? Why was man created? What is the true nature of man, which determines his essence? In part, human psychology, as well as other human sciences, gives us answers to these and many other questions about ourselves. But these answers are clearly not enough for us to fully understand ourselves and other people, so we are still in search of an answer to the question: “who are we and why are we here?”. The nature of man, which will be discussed in this article, has not yet been fully studied, but what we already know about it is quite enough for us to understand many of the most important points in human behavior. And this understanding of the causes of people's behavior will allow us to find the “key” to every person without exception, including ourselves. Let's figure out who we are, people, after all, and why we were created.
We can call human nature all those innate, genetically determined qualities and behaviors that are inherent in all people. Human nature is everything that has always been in us, from the moment of our appearance, and that makes us human. Human nature is that which is characteristic of man as a species. Human nature is what determines our eternal and unchanging aspirations and desires. Human nature is our ability to specifically respond to external stimuli and perceive the world around us in a certain way. Human nature is our ability to shape the world for ourselves. And finally, the nature of man is his ability to survive. The last definition, in my opinion, best of all explains the nature of a person, as a biopsychic construction necessary for him, as for a species. Therefore, let's focus on this definition and discuss it in more detail. After all, philosophical disputes about human nature have a long history, and there can be many opinions about what it is - human nature. We need to understand the obvious in this matter, which we can verify, if necessary, by elementary observations of ourselves and other people. And more obvious to us, in my opinion, is not the definition of what human nature is, but what is its meaning and what it is intended for. After all, if we humans cannot or do not want to determine the structure of human nature, then we need to study its functions in order to then link them to various elements of the structure and thus understand it. It's both easier and more interesting. After all, what is more important for us - to know who we are, or what we are capable of? In my opinion, the best way to study human nature is from the standpoint of our needs, desires, goals and capabilities. So let's do just that.
So, in order to better understand human nature, it is necessary to understand the meaning of its purpose, which is quite simple to understand, if you do not go into details - human nature is designed for the survival of man and mankind. By nature, we are what we must be in order to survive in this world, therefore, when studying and explaining human behavior, one should always proceed primarily from this basic need. This need gives rise to other needs, which in turn induce a person to certain actions necessary to satisfy these needs.
To understand what people are inherently capable of, let's look at human nature through the prism of biblical commandments that show us what negative qualities a person has and how they manifest themselves in him. With your permission, I will cite only some of them, namely, the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth commandments. It is faster and easier for me to explain them, so I will show you, using their example, what is natural for people. So these commandments are: Thou shalt not kill; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness and do not covet what your neighbor has. That is, do not do what, attention - you want, you can, and in some situations you are forced and inclined to do. Do you understand what these commandments tell us? They tell us that all these actions and desires are characteristic of a person - he tends to kill, commit adultery, steal, lie, desire what others have, but what he does not have, and this, as you understand, is only a small part of those actions and desires to which we are inclined from birth, which are inherent in us by nature itself, or, if you like, given to us by God. Here, too, a logical question arises - if God does not like certain qualities of a person, then why did he endow him with them? To then punish a person for his natural behavior? What for? Okay, we will discuss these issues some other time, now we are not interested in religion, it has its own purpose, we are interested in human nature, which we need to understand well in order to understand ourselves and other people and live in accordance with this understanding, then is, in harmony with its nature.
So, as we can see, a person is characterized by everything that God forbids him to do with the help of his commandments, and much more that society forbids him to do with the help of his laws. It is also characteristic of man that what we call good, kind deeds. This, in turn, means that a person by nature is not good and not evil, not bad and not good, he is simply the way he is, the way he should be, so that not even he himself, but his kind, could survive in this harsh world. If we are prone to kill, steal, cheat, commit adultery, and also to other, both bad and good deeds, then we need to do them in certain life situations in order to survive. Therefore, we should not evaluate our actions as good or bad, since they are all inherent in our nature, we need to understand their necessity for us in certain situations. We cannot completely change our nature, and probably should not, but we can supplement it, complicate it, improve it, develop it, and we can control it. But most importantly, we must subordinate our nature to ourselves, so that it does not rule us, but we do it. Then our behavior will be as rational, prudent, practical and adequate as possible, and therefore reasonable.
So as you can see, friends, our behavior can tell us who we are by showing us why we are. Our actions tell us about our capabilities, and our capabilities indicate our needs, for the satisfaction of which we perform these actions. And our needs are determined by the need to maintain life. Therefore, a person most often does something not because he wants to do it, but because he must and, most importantly, can do it. In some situations, we, due to our personal qualities, can be evil and cruel, in others, kind and sympathetic, ready to help our neighbor. We react to external stimuli and act according to our nature and our capabilities. And depending on who we have become in the course of our lives, our capabilities and abilities can vary greatly, and usually do. This means that we can behave differently in the same situations. We are different, friends, despite our nature, which is the same for all of us, and we have always been and will be different. A person is formed as a personality under the influence of natural and social factors, so we are relatively easy to adapt and adapt to almost any conditions. But someone does it better, someone worse. We also tend to adapt the world for ourselves, creating a human situation, that is, an environment that suits us, in which we are comfortable and safe to live. We have, or rather may have, both the desire and the possibilities for this. And again, depending on the level of development that determines a person’s capabilities, he either wakes up with a desire to change everything around him, or not. The more primitive the creature, the weaker it is, and the weaker it is, the more often it is forced to adapt to external conditions rather than change them. Therefore, a person adapts to everything that he cannot change. That is, it's not about desire, it's about opportunities. The ability to adapt makes us more tenacious, and the ability to adapt speaks of great strength and a high level of human development. This is how human nature can manifest itself in different ways, the basis of which is unchanged, but one or another personal qualities a person in himself develops himself in the process of life, or life develops them in him, with the help of various life scenarios. Also, in the process of life, a person, if he is constantly engaged in self-development and self-improvement, discovers in himself more and more new opportunities inherent in his nature. That is why it is so difficult to say what it is - human nature in its holistic form, because there is no limit to human perfection, which means that we will always learn something new about ourselves and our capabilities.
From the need to survive in our world, which is very unfriendly to humans, our basic instinctive needs also follow, which are the same for all of us. Our worldview and understanding of the world may be different, but the basic, or rather, primary needs are the same for everyone, and every person on this planet strives to satisfy them. This is the need for food, water, security, sexual satisfaction, in general, everything that a person needs for survival and procreation. This is followed by more sublime, secondary needs that a person begins to experience as he meets his basic needs [physiological needs and the need for security, that is, to guarantee the satisfaction of physiological needs]. Familiarize yourself with the pyramid of needs of Abraham Maslow, in my opinion, it perfectly demonstrates not only what needs may be due to the specific behavior of a particular person, but also what level of development this or that person or group of people is at, depending on their aspirations and capabilities meet one or another of their needs. The hierarchy of needs shows us what the nature of a person as a whole [known to us] is and how it manifests itself in different people, depending on their development, lifestyle, environment, opportunities. It is easier for a more developed person to satisfy his needs, especially the lower ones, so he is more calm and less aggressive. It should also be said that the higher the intelligence of a person, the more veiled and thoughtful will be his desire to satisfy his needs, and therefore more successful.
In general, our whole life comes down to satisfying our needs, and can differ only in what needs at one time or another of our lives each of us strives to satisfy. From this point of view, we are not much different from animals, except that only as we develop we awaken in ourselves new, higher needs and, thanks to our intellect, we can find more opportunities to satisfy them. In this sense, as I have already said, we have limitless potential to expand their capabilities. So it is still unknown how much we can change the world, but that we will strive for this is beyond doubt. After all, in addition to needs, a person also has desires that have gone far ahead of his capabilities, and they pull a person up to that stage of development, being at which he can fulfill these desires. In this sense, human nature is unique - we can want what is not there, but what we guess about, what we dream about. So dreams, as a higher form of need, also motivate us to take action. Curiosity and the desire to change the world, and at the same time oneself, is an integral feature of human nature. And this is not surprising. After all, the energy potential of a person is very high, so it is natural for him to strive for maximum action, after which, depending on the capabilities of each individual person, the world can change dramatically, both for the better and for the worse.
In general, friends, the nature and essence of a person is known through careful observation of different people, the study of their culture and history, traditions and laws, as well as through self-observation, because some part of human nature is manifested in each of us. Those qualities that a person has and which are manifested in him in certain situations are an integral part of his nature, and the more primitive a person is, the easier it is to understand his innate, unchanging essence, which changes the more the more actively a person develops, improves, and consequently complicates its behavior and habits. This very tendency of a person to change his life and complicate his behavior is also his natural quality. Therefore, what we call the human mind is undoubtedly present in it, but it requires development, since the higher the rationality of a person, the more adequate to the existing reality he behaves. And as you and I know, a person is not always adequate in his behavior, which in turn means that human nature is unreasonable, but it is in our power to make ourselves sufficiently reasonable beings, taking advantage of the potential inherent in us.
The most interesting and, perhaps, important thing in human nature is that it, this nature, can be adapted to almost any lifestyle. Man is a suggestible being, you can suggest anything to him, thereby creating in him the so-called “second nature”. The second nature is the first nature modified, or better to say, supplemented by man. That is, the second nature is a set of sensory, cognitive, and operational traits acquired in addition to the basic personality. It can be said even more simply - the permanent qualities of the personality that are acquired are the second nature of man. A person, as a rule, considers the qualities he has acquired as a natural part of his personality, like everything that is given to him genetically. Thus, a person, thanks to suggestion and self-suggestion, can consider as part of his nature such moments in his behavior, and such his desires and needs that are not characteristic of him by nature, according to his “first nature”, but which he acquired and developed during life. For example, the "second nature" of a person is his cultural education, as well as his professional skills and demeanor, which he has developed in himself. The second nature of a person is expressed in such situations, for example, when a person begins to associate himself with his activities, with his cultural and mental merits, as well as with his hobbies and achievements. As for suggestions, it is possible, for example, to inspire a person with the idea that sex is a sin and it is a sin to engage in it, and therefore it is not necessary. And a person who believes in this will not have sex, thus going against his own nature, that is, against his first nature. You can also inspire a person with the idea that he is a certain person who has certain qualities, for example, you can inspire him that he is a slave, born to serve his master. And this role accepted by a person will become his second nature, and he will behave accordingly to this role. So, friends, a lot depends on what other people inspire us and what we inspire ourselves in our life, maybe even everything. Each of us will be in this life what other people or ourselves make us. Human nature is quite flexible and even to some extent unpredictable, because we still don’t know much about what a person can be if we create certain conditions for him or subject him to certain tests, or if we inspire him with something like that, which will completely change his personality and behavior. Therefore, it is very important to pay serious attention to everything that enters our head in order not to allow thoughts, emotions, opinions, actions, values and goals that are abnormal for us to become normal.
So far, we know about human nature only what people have been able to learn about it throughout their history and what we ourselves can see by observing human behavior. But we still do not know much about ourselves, since a person is not fully known, and it is not known whether he will ever be fully known at all, especially by himself. However, we can conclude that human nature is fundamentally unchanged, our basic needs and primitive ways of satisfying them have not changed throughout our history. This in turn means that every newly born person is like clean slate, on which you can draw anything, regardless of who his ancestors were. By nature, all people are almost the same, they all have the same instincts that control them and determine their needs. Any qualities inherent in one person, under certain circumstances, can be inherent in another person. Whatever one person can do, other people can, if they make the necessary efforts. From this we can draw a very simple, but very useful conclusion for us - by ourselves we can partially know other people, just as well as how well we know ourselves, and by other people we can understand what a person can be like, what qualities are inherent in him by nature, what abilities he has and therefore, we can understand what kind of person we are capable of becoming. That is, everything that is in other people is in each of us, in an active or passive state. And everything that is in us is also in other people. From this follows a completely logical conclusion - do not judge, so that you will not be judged, for what is inherent in others is inherent in you, and in certain circumstances you can behave the way those you judge behave.
And that's what I want to tell you in the end, dear friends. Regardless of our nature, we can become whoever we want to be in this life. Man invents himself, according to his own will. His, this desire, you only need to have. And even if human nature is unchanged, nevertheless, firstly, it is not fully understood and therefore we do not know what else we can be capable of, in addition to what we already know and what we know about ourselves, and secondly, it in no way prevents us from changing ourselves and our behavior, both as necessary and depending on our desires. Remember, you will be who you choose to be in this life. So do not deprive yourself of the opportunity to determine your own destiny.
