My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
Interpretation
Early life experiences shape one's career and perspectives, especially in understanding social psychology.
Philip Zimbardo reflects on how his challenging upbringing in the South Bronx and his family background molded him into a social psychologist. His unique journey from poverty to achieving educational milestones highlights the impact of environment and determination in pursuing a career that helps understand societal behaviors.
In practice
This quote can be used during a graduation speech to inspire students from underprivileged backgrounds.
Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
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