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HUMAN SOFTWARE vs CHILDHOOD   Humans usually start to develop moral values between the ages of four and six, with a capacity for logical thinking around six years old. For some people, it can be earlier; for some later. To some experts, the first five years of life has a determining effect on later psychopathology and development. Most of our ways of thinking, our human software, formulate under the influences of those close to us, mostly our parents, primary caregivers, and other surroundings. Human software includes standards, beliefs, expectations, perceptions and bias, which can profoundly affects our health, emotions, ability to handle stress in a crisis and ability to person ran into social issues due to "the standards of her parents." Denial delays proper action, for example cancer treatment. A wrongfully adapted belief of ourselves diminishes schooling. When new computer software comes out, we prefer to replace the old one for better performance. When it comes to "our own software," do we want to continue every way of thinking formed in our childhood and at other unsophisticated ages? With more and more adversities facing us these days, the thinking system formed at an immature age can more easily lead to a chain reaction throughout our entire system. In the meantime, these unhealthy thinking can be so familiar to us that we may not be aware of its existence nor its fatal results.  [Hammers, Lions, Foxes Paragraph 5 (part), 6] It is time to sharpen our insights into ourselves and others, and re-evaluate our ways of thinking. We could learn by others’ choices. We can relearn at our own discretion, update our own human software. We can bring more efficiency to the overall system and |
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