Monkey See, Monkey Do: Part 1,000,000

I came across a really interesting article the other day, and I kept the tab open for days and days without reading it all.  Anyone else do that?  Anyways,  I finally got around to finishing it this morning.  It was about how self-control is actually contagious, in a way.  Basically, if we see people behaving with self-control, we are better able to control ourselves than if we don’t have a mental example.

This is right in line with my existing belief that everything we learn is by analogy.  Everything in our brains is linked to everything else, and the way we position things in our mind very much depends on these connections that connect our ideas in different ways (primarily comparisons and contrasts).

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