Monday, March 23, 2009
I'm not exactly very well prepared for tomorrow's maths ta, even though i have so much confidence in my trigo. Sad.
I'm ponning school on wednesday for my IMRE safety test, meaning I pon ss, chinese x2 and english. Which conveniently means i won't be taking my ss sbq test or doing my english speech this week.
My mom has been lecturing me about psychologists.
Personally i do not trust any adult psychologist who speaks about teenagers.
Certain areas of the brain, including the areas responsible for decision making, only fully develop at the age of 22. Hence teenagers and adults will make significantly different decisions in similar situations, and it is physically impossible for an adult to think exactly like a teenager.
And since most psychologists are adults, it is also impossible for any psychologist to completely understand a teenager's mind.
The common rebuttal would be "adults were teenagers before; they have gone through what you are going through now and understand it"
Wrong. Keyword is WERE.
An adult's assessment of an experience in his teenage years will be significantly different from his assessment of the same event when he was a teenager.
For example, teenager A makes a homemade bomb and ignites it. teenager A eventually grows up and becomes adult A.
Teenager A: That was wicked badass awesomez!!!!
Adult A: That was enjoyable, but rash and dangerous.
So i do not trust any psychologist's analysis of today's youths, simply because he isn't one of today's youths.
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9:18 PM
