Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Antonio Damasio and his colleagues describe two young adults--a woman, 20, and a man, 23--who suffered early injuries to the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain thought to serve as a kind of moral and social compass. The woman was run over by a car at 15 months; the man had a brain tumor removed at three months. Both made remarkable recoveries until they began to display serious behavioral problems...
...prefrontal cortex develop very similar problems, often quitting their jobs, gambling away their savings and alienating family and friends. But in those cases, the people still seem to know the difference between right and wrong. By contrast, the two young adults never seemed to have developed a moral compass in the first place...
Leaving what now appears to me to be a mere molehill, we head off for a session in land navigation. We learn how to plot a route with a compass and a topographical map. We are then directed to find--as fast as we can--a set of checkpoints hidden in 50 acres of rolling hills, tree-dotted valleys and streambeds. I'm sorry that I, who cannot find my way around the Time & Life Building, have nothing to offer my teammates, Alison Murray, senior staff at Schwab's information technology enterprise, and Elisa Takao, senior event manager. Confused...
...fiercest rivals. By maintaining ties to those who have given our lives meaning, we can keep ourselves afloat amidst all the uprooting and reshuffling of our priorities and ideals. No matter how turbulent life becomes, it's always easier to orient yourself when you have other people as your compass...
Teach your kids that sex isn't just about plumbing and procreation, that sex is about relationships and power struggles and the gray area between yes and no. Children need to have a strong internal compass as they mature, because the terrain will keep shifting until they're old like us. And then it will shift some more...