Sunday, October 4, 2009

Dear Doctor, Por Favor unconditional love on me.

even when i can't find the right words to say;  





Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances wed be sharing love
Before the night was through.

Something in your eyes was so inviting,
Something in you smile was so exciting,
Something in my heart,
Told me I must have you.

Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment
When we said our first hello.
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away,
A warm embracing dance away and -

Ever since that night weve been together.
Lovers at first sight, in love forever.
It turned out so right,
For strangers in the night.
This song introduces to the entry for the week.

So how to we choose to interact with another? What leads us to our choice?

It goes like this: You strike up a conversation with someone you’ve never met before, and whether you admit it to yourself or not, after two minutes or so, you know: You’re attracted to him or you’re not. If you’re single, you’re intrigued; if you’re happily involved with someone, you’re... careful.

Dr Helen E. Fisher, PhD biological anthropologist, is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She has written five books on the evolution and future of human sexuality, monogamy, adultery and divorce, gender differences in the brain, the chemistry of romantic love, and most recently, human personality types and why we fall in love with one person rather than another.

She introduced in her book, "Why Him? Why Her?,” Fisher reveals the results of her two most recent studies. One defines personality types and the other describes the nuances of romantic relationships between people of different and the same personality types.

She uses them as building blocks to construct four distinct personality types. The Explorer, defined by high dopamine activity, is adventurous, novelty-seeking, creative. The Builder, with high serotonin activity, is cautious, conventional, managerial. The Director, pumped up with testosterone, is aggressive, single-minded, analytical. The Negotiator, more estrogen-influenced, is empathetic, idealistic, a big-picture thinker.

This helps us understand our own interest better linking back to how to improve our relational maintenance with others. People will always always make our own mistakes but one could hope to is make fewer of them and to understand that sometimes human nature is working against us.

Reference:
ELLE Magazine Article Helen Fisher: Why Him? Why Her?

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6 comments:

  1. We do not hope to make fewer mistakes but to avoid them altogether. However, in interpersonal relations, there are no hard and fast rules to it. I could engage with a negotiator but probably not with another negotiator. With that, it means that if life scripts are not foolproof.

    A learning experience from communicating with another person does not means that it could be readily applied. In fact, that experience could be so unique that it might not even happen again. Since people react differently, it is hard to learn from mistakes.

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  2. It's amazing how this specialist on love was able to find 4 distinct personality types. I don't readily believe in these things because sometimes we hilight different parts of our personality to different people - we are not as static as just these 4 types.

    Accepting mistakes is the first step to fixing them.

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  3. Hello Shawn!

    We still could take measures to improve communication between individual. In this way, it's a method to enhance communication and put "like minded" people together.

    True enough, we react to various situation when we are put into it.

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  4. Hey Nina!

    There are always exceptions that one would belong to two category. Sure enough, there's no fixed rules like who fall into what. However, the characteristics that explain different unique personality.

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  5. I don't think it is to 'put like-minded people together', but rather to 'put like-mindedness into different people. Afterall, opposites attract ...

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  6. Shawn,

    It's a little of everything and everyone and that makes a huge difference in this place.

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