Nature Vs Nurture Theory

Many scientists study, if one’s nature is the reason for their success or if the way they were nurtured the reason for their success. The nature theory has to do with the way someone's genes; something they were born with influences their success. And the nurture theory has to do with how someone is raised or how things they are taught influences their success. Both of these theories have different aspects of how they influence individual success. Nature has both good and bad influences on one’s success based on their genes, if one's genes are bad and ones nurture is bad their success is very limited to be positive because outside influences affect one true nature. They can change their surrounding or continue to let their surrounding affect their …show more content…
Even if we are well intentioned, even if we think we know right from wrong, there may be factors influencing our decisions and behaviors that we’re not aware of,” (Gregoire paragraph 11). Nature influences people even when one has been taught something different. Sometime one nature overcome what the have been taught because it is truly who they are. One’s nature can both be the downfall and upbringing of their success. One's nature can have a bad influence on their success because they were born with bad habits that can’t always be changed. In “The Science of Success” by David Dobbs also supports the affects nature has on someones success when it talks about how children who have a “risk allele” are more likely to develop problems in their life. This text is basically about how scientist compared two groups of children, one group with the “risk allele” and “protective allele” to see which one succeeds and adapt to different things and situations. “...began to study the genetic makeup of a group of young children. Specifically, they focused on one particular “risk allele” associated with….(ADHD). (A risk allele, then is