| >Some participants went on to become successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and others ended up as schizophrenics or alcoholics, but not on inevitable tracks. Why was this assumption made? If the goal of the study is to analyze the potential for biologically determined outcomes in people's lives, doesn't this sort of undermine that foundational question? Why wouldn't genetics play a role in determining personality, and make some people more outgoing and willing to embrace a community? >Researchers who have pored through data, including vast medical records and hundreds of in-person interviews and questionnaires, found a strong correlation between men’s flourishing lives and their relationships with family, friends, and community. This doesn't tell us why. Why is that the case? >Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. Taking care of your relationships IS taking care of your body. Our mind is a physical organ like the heart or lungs. Our entire personalities, our thoughts, our dreams and everything that comprises consciousness is just a series of abstractions built on top of flesh. IMO, the real lesson these researchers should've taken away from this is that the mind is not separate from the rest of the body. |