NPC Thoughts

When it comes to our social identity, people tend to lean toward those they relate with the most. Our in-groups are who we belong to. Sports-wise, it can be what team we like, our hometown, school, etc. On the other hand, our out-groups are the opposite. They're the groups we don't relate to/with. In politics, if you're more liberal or conservative, you're going to either be Democrat or Republican. Depending on who you are, you'll more than likely see Republicans or Democrats in a bad manner. It doesn't have to be politics. It can be sports, music, or school. There will always be bias in the things we choose to like/support. People do this because, often, they want to see themselves positively. It boosts their self-esteem and makes them feel good when they belong to a " good " group. The opposite can be said when someone has low self-esteem. What I got from the article is that essentially people who have low self-esteem tend to do things they normally

Curiosity is something we humans are born with. It comes naturally to us. We are always curious about something. Whether it be one of life's questions, love, space, anything really. Curiosity allows us to learn new things, and with those new things come new innovative creations. The Wright Brothers, for example, invented the airplane. They were curious about the idea of flight from a young age. Because of their efforts, we have different Boeing aircraft models, jets, and new technology that keeps airplanes from colliding with one another. So many new things came to be because of their efforts. Our predecessors left us the blueprint. From a medical standpoint, there have been so many medical advancements that are more ethical than how things were in the 19th century. In the 19th century, doctors were doing unethical procedures like trepanation, when a doctor drills a hole in a person's skull, lobotomy, and lithotomy, a procedure used to remove kidney stones with a 50% mortality

Time is something we can never get back. There's so much time ahead of us yet, so very little at the same time. People thought Stephen Hawking had very little time to live. He managed to surpass those expectations and lived up to the age of 76. There are so many things that humans have managed to invent in the past century that people living in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries wouldn't even imagine could exist. We live in a world where there are self-driving cars, the internet, we know what a black hole looks like, and so much more. These things were all ideas. How they became ideas and how these ideas became a reality is something I can't even begin to understand. People like Stephen Hawking worked and gave us humans the blueprint to figure out so many of life's greatest questions. We are in one of the greatest generations ever where we have access to information online. We can watch movies and videos in the comfort of our homes because these inventions, which were i

When the "truth" is presented to us do we accept it for what it is or do we question it and search for our own conclusion? I've always been the kind of person who accepts things for what it is because I never really cared to do my own research. At times it just feels "logical" to accept the truth for what it is. It's interesting when people like Bertrand Russell speak on things such as questioning the information fed to us because from an early age we're never taught to do our own research. Whether it be at school (excluding college), at home, on social media, etc we're constantly fed information and we just take it for what it is. It's an eye-opening video as it feels because when we question the truth such as the information we consume at school, on social media, or on the news, it kind of pushes us to question authority as a whole. It's videos like these that make you question a lot of the things going on. The censorship with the informati