apparently, if you are a summer baby... you have a higher tendency of feeling luckier and are generally happier says Prof. Wiseman... hmmm... well, i suppose i do feel very lucky about a lot of my life experiences, i am usually quite cheerful and occasionally slightly mad (or high on air!) but i do worry myself silly over everything and nothing.... too much for my own sanity at times...! hmmm.. i wonder. well well, i did the online questionnaire... and i am curious about the overall results... but i am not too convinced though... because a lot of it, our life-outlook, is pretty much dependent on our self-perception, attribution, and personality. the latter has been the pursuit of differential psychologists and they have been exploring the links between cognitive capacities (most infamously IQ) with human traits (e.g. openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) for almost a century, sustaining the ongoing debate on nature and nurture. perhaps it is luck that one should be born with a happy disposition; and perhaps it is luck that your genes have expressed the appropriate proteins so that you are healthy and an optimist. but should one necessarily feel more lucky because s/he is welcomed in to the world when the flowers are blooming? is our disposition determined by the month in which we are born? this seems overly simplistic. surely a difficult birth could affect one's development as much as one?s personality since both is neither solely nature nor nurture. surely the point of inception and the health and conditions of both mother and child during the months before labour are also crucial... and it is possible that people may learn to become unhappy and feel unlucky because they do not receive appropriate responses and attention from carers. ?hmmm, if ever there should be a (non-causal) relation between the month in which we are born and our perceived sense of 'luckiness'... it might be that we who are born in summer ought to feel lucky because we and our poor mothers have survived the delivery ordeal in the heat of summer!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Saturday, 17 April, 2004 at 14:15 hrs
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