{"id":106,"date":"2017-09-05T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/?p=106"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:21:25","slug":"the-importance-of-individual-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2017\/09\/05\/the-importance-of-individual-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of individual pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"

The introduction of this novel sets up the stage for what the authors will be discussing throughout the book- How and why did some students in Terman\u2019s study live long lives while others did not? I\u2019ve heard about this study in a course I took sophomore year, and it fascinates me how a study can be conducted for this long. It takes resilience and persistence to be able to follow through the individual lives of 1,500 students, but I think the information gained can be very beneficial and sheds light on certain characteristics and lifestyles that can improve health and potentially increase the likelihood of living a longer life. Much of what is known today is that we should eat healthy, exercise, and worry less. However, many of these are myths, and through the course of this book I am interested in finding out what surprising factors may lead to longevity. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter one introduces the idea of individual pathways. It interests me how Patricia and John made different choices, yet still both lived to old age. Modern doctors focus on symptoms that a patient is showing and they try to fit the patient into a specific category. However, this book raises the question of whether we should emphasize more on the individual, as we did during traditional times. One aspect of the individual they look at is personality. I\u2019m incredibly interested in personality and have written papers on the topic for my past courses. Many people believe that personality is innate and cannot be changed, but studies have shown that environment and experiences can change personality slowly overtime. In my case, I was a very shy child and was often afraid to talk in class, as early as in elementary school. If I were to have been home schooled in high school and attend college close to home, I most likely would still be painfully shy. I used to believe that I did not like being surrounded by many people at once, however, a few years ago I discovered that like Patricia, I can be a social butterfly when around people with similar interests with whom I am able to discuss something I am passionate about. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The introduction of this novel sets up the stage for what the authors will be discussing throughout the book- How and why did some students in Terman\u2019s study live long lives while others did not? I\u2019ve heard about this study … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59091,66244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2017","category-introduction-chapter-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}