Seventh Entry: October 14th
I’ve taken the time to dissect the inner marking of “Social Animal” by David Brooks, as discussed in the New Yorker. His article’s subtitle reads, “How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life.” After completing the article, and glancing back at that subtitle it aids you in summing up the experience of the human unconsciousness and how powerful it is. Success is largely dependent on how deeply others can relate to you. Emotional ties, social interaction and common relations of the norms are crucial in developing individuals for a success.
“If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception. If the outer mind highlights the power of the individual, the inner mind highlights the power of relationships and the invisible bonds between people”
In the article we are given two people, Harold and Erica throughout their youth, adolescence, career choices, marriage, and retirement. Both Harold and Erica were created to show every aspect of the “Social Animal”, including education, socialization, and morality. They have roller-coaster of lessons in their experiences. Through it all, both learn to adapt and grow as individuals as even as a couple. They both achieve success in their fields by imitating the philosophies set forth by Mr. Brooks. His attempt is to make us more aware of the subconscious perceptions others may have of us, so that we may utilize it to our advantage. To embrace all ties we have to our circumstances, to help shape the greatness in our lives.
It was an exhausting-ly in-depth, yet fascinating read. Unfortunately, due to issues in scheduling at work, I had to cover today’s Wednesday shift missing our 7th class meeting, but I was sure to post the necessary entries to the site.
As mentioned on My First Blog Entry for September 8th, after finally finding the correct OpenLab Internship site, I’ve transferred ALL of the Blogs I had been working on so from the last few weeks into this Course Profile.
Previously I was a part of an identical site for the Fall 2015 Semester under Professor Joel Mason and “tgoetz” (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/comd-4900-communication-design-internship-fall-2015/). Wilson, Huseyin, and I had been the only members of this particular profile, but then found it alarming that I had been the only individual providing entries. Luckily my investigation led me to this here, which is better late than never, I presume.
