Imagine a life where everything happened in according to your desire – will you consider your life a success?
In this article, I will give you the answer from the posit that we are the products of genes and environments.
The Gene Factor!
As I get older, I noticed many physical traits I have seen not from my own reflection, but from the external environment – grandparents, mom, dad, close relatives and my children.
My grandfather and father both began to lose their hair in their early 40s. As their progeny, my hair was thinning since the senior year of high school.
From an informal observation, hair thinning was the dominated trait on the paternal side, as most the men on my mother side retained their thick and black luscious hair beyond the 40-mile marker.
The Environment Factor!
The fact that I lose my hair two decades earlier than my predecessors – genes alone are not able to account for the vast difference in time.
My grandfather was born and died in Vietnam, a developing country in Southeast Asia.
My father migrated to the United States in his early 40s and I was 10 years old.
Without my awareness and as far as from the genetic perspective, all the genes that involved with my development were abruptly tossed into a completely new environment – with a complete different set of stimuli.
From the evolutionary point a view, my genes were participating in the competition – survival of the fittest.
If I had the choices in the genetic switches for the thicker and more luscious black hair – I would have flip them for the 19 years old of me.
In fairness the genetic tendency for the early hair loss was not completed without compensation.
A recessive trait on my paternal side was facial hair along with chest, arm and leg. Facial hair is uncommon in Asian men, especially Southeast Asian men.
The fact that we have migrated Midwest region of the United States, where the climate is much colder than Vietnam, I was much hairier than my father and all the related cousins in Vietnam.
In the early days of the game the birds and the bees, I noticed that my odds improved with a well groomed beard.
As soon as notice the high rate of hair loss at 18, I embraced the genetic compensation in facial hair to increase the probability of securing a mate for life!
Soon after I had graduated from the college of engineering at the age of 23, I founded the mate that I have been searching since puberty – it was the moment when the game of life was fully engaged for me.
In the next 28 years, all the effort was devoted to find the environmental factors to fit with my genetic expressions, and the result interpreted from my personal subjective point a view – exceptional!
So here is where I will offer the definition of a successful life!
The bulk load of your genetic essence has been determined as explained in ”A Successful Life (Part 1)“.
The key word “appropriate” here is very important – the fable “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is best to demonstrate the idea of not too much or too little freedom, but just right.
This is why the majority of the world zoos are failing at providing the appropriate environment for wild animals to fully express their genetic expressions.
The key word “appropriate” here is very important – the fable “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is best to demonstrate the idea of not too much or too little freedom, but just right.
This is why the majority of the world zoos are failing at providing the appropriate environment for wild animals to fully express their genetic expressions.
We, as a human species, are the animal with the genetic potential for expression beyond the earth boundary. Unfortunately, we have yet found the environment that stimulates the full expression of the capability.
Individually, within the human species, there are extraordinary human beings whose existences changed the world because they were able to effectively incorporate the gene and the environmental factors seamlessly.
Their accomplishments have raised the standard of living for billions globally. With the exceptions of the war-torn and extreme poverty areas, every person in existence of this very second resides in a high degree of freedom environment that is promoting the better expression of their genetic potential – far more in comparison to their previous predecessors.
Unless your parents are highly accomplished, the majority of you should be able to lead a life that is progressively more successful than your parents – due to the fact that there are so much more opportunities in your lifetime that were not exist or not readily available for them in their time.
As you can see from statistics, success in the first quarter of the 21st century is about bringing your best effort to the games – where the environment is tamed and the outcomes will be determined by the mass of humanity.
Let’s play the game of life!
