Steven Pinker's Arguments In The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker made so very interesting arguments in The Blank Slate that caused me to question and try to rationalize how I truly came about to become the person that I am today. When I was younger I was always taught to believe that God has some plan for me and that everything that occurred in my life was all apart of some grand master plan that God had laid out for me and not to worry and that everything was going to work out fine as long as I was a good person. I believed that people were definitely born inherently good and that certain factors for whatever reason caused people to lose sight of that and become corrupted and acting poorly. I believed that we all have a soul and are free to make whatever choices we want but we should try to

When he did the twin studies and showed that there were actually very many similarities between the twins no matter the environment they grew up in was mind blowing. I always wondered if I would be different if I was raised by my father, rather than my mther. I always wondered how different things would be, the person I would’ve become, and everything that would have happened. Rather than being an academic and going to Cornell University from being raised by my mother, would I have continued to pursue my varsity athletics to a higher of a degree and be playing collegiate athletics for the University of Southern California and pitch for the Philadelphia Phillies in the big leagues just like my old man, but according to Pinker’s arguments, I would most likely be in a similar place with similar characteristics and interests. All in all, Pinker’s book, The Blake Slate, made a lot of arguments about human nature and how we all became the person we are today. There are a lot of innate patterns of thinking and feeling that we hold true, yet we are all still human beings, unique in our own