{"id":3822,"date":"2011-10-25T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:40:20","slug":"can-people-change-part-ii-with-input-from-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/can-people-change-part-ii-with-input-from-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Can people change? Part II, with input from friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2011\/10\/18\/can-people-really-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My recent post on whether people can change<\/a> generated a nice conversation over on Facebook, so I&#8217;m bringing those comments in here to share other perspectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SurfGrape\">Margaret Yang<\/a> I voted yes. People can change. The thing is, most people don&#8217;t want to! Don&#8217;t we all think we&#8217;re just dandy the way we are?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1129962535\">Jeffrey Sauger<\/a>People can change their synapses. They&#8217;ve found career cabbies in London actually write new paths throughout their brains when they&#8217;ve had to go on new routes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/creativedc\">Amanda Hirsch<\/a>I agree, people can change&#8230; we can rewire our brains through changed thought patterns and behaviors. And as far as Myers Briggs &#8212; I find that even if my outcome remains the same, how far I am along the E\/I, T\/F and J\/P spectrum changes each time I take it. Always a solid N, though, with no signs of S&#8230;. no shift there \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1350336550\">Gale Marie Abbass<\/a> One can change. Period. But just because one evolves, doesn&#8217;t mean that one necessarily change how one perceives the world and makes decisions the way that particular test measures it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want to read more?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2011\/10\/20\/a-m-vitals-teen-iqs-brains-can-change-over-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nature recently published a study showing teenage IQs are quite fluid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-15353397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC had a story on research that shows the Internet might be changing your brain &#8212; whether you want to change or not<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent post on whether people can change generated a nice conversation over on Facebook, so I&#8217;m bringing those comments in here to share other perspectives: Margaret Yang I voted yes. People can change. 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