Biography coming soon...
- by Joseph Stuczynski
- Published April 14, 2008
According to many psychologists, our behavioral patterns, including how and whom we love, are developed by the age of six.
As children, our ability to communicate is minimal, but the power to observe and mimic as a survival skill is deeply rooted in the genetic coding of our species. This means that the relationships we seek as adults imitate the dynamic we observed between our parents or caregivers (up to when we were 6). As we grew older and hopefully wiser, our parents may have tried to give contrary advice; “Do as I say, not as I do (or did)”, but unfortunately the observed behavior was much more powerful than their contradicting advice.
Donna Wilshire, a friend of mine who writes about the Oral Tradition, explains that our species survived and thrived for many thousands of years without writing, without books. In the beginning, people communicated with each other and passed information down to the next generation through stories that were told orally
