Quotes About Behavior

Sorprendentemente, se puede introducir directamente en una neurona, con precisión quirúrgica, un gen sensible a la luz que hace que la célula se dispare. A continuación, se enciende el haz de luz y la neurona se activa. Y, lo que es más importante, esto permite a los científicos excitar esos recorridos, de manera que pueden activar y desactivar determinados comportamientos con pulsar un interruptor.

Is everything we do determined by the cause-and-effect chain of genes, environment, and the cells that make up our brain, or can we freely form intentions that influence our actions in the world?

Y fue el cochino afán del ahorro lo que agrió su carácter. El ahorro, cuando se hace a costa de una necesidad insatisfecha, ocasiona en los hombres acritud y encono.

Su estado de ánimo ante la Mica era un caso especial, diferente del estado de ánimo de sus amigos. Y si no, ¿por qué Roque, el Moñigo, o Germán, el Tiñoso, no adelgazaban tres kilos si la Mica marchaba a América, o un par de ellos si solo se desplazaba a la ciudad, o engordaban lo perdido y un kilo más cuando la Mica retornaba al valle por una larga temporada?

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.

When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them. Even if they tell us not to be that way

Confess. Admit that you've sinned—that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent—that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.

Por miedo a ser castigados o por miedo a no recibir una recompensa empezamos a tratar de complacer a otras personas. Intentamos ser buenos porque la gente mala no recibe recompensas y se la castiga.

We domesticate humans the same way we domesticate a dog or any other animal: with punishment and reward. This is perfectly normal. What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Ahora nos domesticamos a nosotros mismos según el sistema de creencias que nos transmitieron y utilizando el mismo sistema de castigo y recompensa.

Even moral laws like the Ten Commandments are programmed into our mind in the process of domestication

Estamos tan bien entrenados que somos nuestro propio domador. Somos un animal autodomesticado

los acuerdos más importantes son los que has hecho contigo mismo. En esos acuerdos te has dicho quién eres, qué sientes, qué crees y cómo debes comportarte. El resultado es lo que llamas tu personalidad.

The way you are living now is the result of many years of domestication. You cannot expect to break the domestication in one day.

That's because our agreements are actually like a strong addiction. We are addicted to being the way we are. We are addicted to anger, jealousy, and self-pity.

We are an autodomesticated animal.

Cuando nos comportamos como niños nos resulta maravilloso porque ese es el estado normal de la mente humana, la tendencia natural.

Nos comportamos de una manera determinada sólo porque estamos acostumbrados a actuar y a reaccionar así. Pero para convertirnos en maestros del amor tenemos que practicar el amor.

We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward.

They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

What you say, what you do, and the opinions you have are according to the agreements you have made — and these opinions have nothing to do with me.

But the most important agreements are the ones you made with yourself. In these agreements you tell yourself who you are, what you feel, what you believe, and how to behave. The result is what you call your personality. In these agreements you say, "This is what I am. This is what I believe. I can do certain things, and some things I cannot do. This is reality, that is fantasy; this is possible, that is impossible.

To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.