Steve Parton Summary

Improved Essays
As stated by human nature's researcher Steven Parton on Psych Pedia, complaining can not only irritate those who are around you, but it can also harm your mental health. Firstly, he explains that pessimistic thoughts actually change how our brains work.

Because our craniums contain synapses (a junction between two nerve cells) that helps transmit electrical charges, information is proficient to make its way around our minds. However, Parton explains, "Every time this electrical charge is precipitated, the synapses grow closer together in order to reduce the distance the electrical charge has to intersect.

The brain is providing its own circuitry, physically transforming itself, to make it easier and more likely that the correct synapses will share the chemical link and spark together in essence, making it easier for the thought to precipitate."
…show more content…
Plus, this helps the negative thoughts overcome some affirmative thoughts in your mind.

"To the far side of the repetition of thoughts, you've brought the pair of synapses that represents your [pessimistic] proclivities closer and closer together, and when the time comes for you to create a thought. The thought that wins is the one that has less interval to travel, the one that will create an overpass between synapses fastest," states Parton.

As if it could not get any badly, complaining can also influence your physical health. When our brains contruct negativity, this can raise our blood pressure, cause you to gain weight, obstruct with our memory, debilitate our immune system, and raise our chances of procuring heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other bad ailments.

Parton reveals, "When we spot someone going through an emotion (may it be anger, sadness, happiness, etc), our brain 'tries out' that similar emotion to visualize what the other person is going

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Feeling of control have both psychological and psychical benefits. How people explain negative events usually determines whether they will persist or give up after failure. People that have a optimistic explanatory style use external, unstable and specific explanations for negative events. However, people with a pessimistic explanatory style use internal, stable, and global explanations for negative events. The development of some chronic diseases are related to chronic negative emotions.…

    • 519 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Steve Ball Summary

    • 128 Words
    • 1 Pages

    During Steve Ball's story there were many that everyone could relate to in some way. The story about how he created a relationship with a teenage boy Carlos while in prison made me realize that I could relate to this particular event. After being thrown into prison from the El Salvador soldiers for basically talking back, he was thrown in a jail cell with a teenage boy who got arrested from protecting his village against the soldiers. Ultimately, upon Steve's release from jail he witnesses a brutal and unjust murder of this boy right in front of his face. Carlos was someone that he created a bond with, and to see a friend be killed right in front of his eyes was something that must have been unbearable.…

    • 128 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Steven Johnson communicates the useful components of computer games and TV and the way that they depend on their arrangement. I thought that it was intriguing in light of the fact that players in computer games truly make sense of complex storylines and piece puzzles together which they're receiving an "Intellectual exercise” that teaches them the same skills that math problems and board games grant. It doesn't really strike me because I learned this from my brother. At a very young age he played video games and presently still does, he's learned numerous technological developments from them, he’s beat every storyline he's ever entered, and learned how to destroy a few zombies on the way. If he's ever put into a situation, his brain will remember how to tackle the problem hands on and surprisingly he can solve probably any math problem he's given.…

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    If people are optimistic and look for the good in everything, chances are they will get the good in everything, because they chose the ignore the bad. People who choose to see the negative side of things, or are pessimistic, tend to receive the negative aspects or side of things. For example, a person who is positive about all of the studying they did for an upcoming test, will stress less about it, and typically score better than someone who negatively views they’re studying. On the other hand, if someone thinks they did a poor job of studying, they will typically stress about their test, and not score as well. This of course differs among each person, because everyone is different.…

    • 1061 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Autobiographical Memory

    • 1685 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Perception Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at all but rather you were seeing hot spots in the middle of the road.…

    • 1685 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Mayo Clinic Staff explains, “Health benefits that positive thinking may provide include: Lower rates of depression, lower levels of distress…” Positive thinking can lead to a happier life because it keeps people from thinking of all of the things that are wrong, which ultimately causes stress. Apparently, “...having…

    • 856 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Last Lecture has many opportunities to become wiser and more informed about how to live life in the best way possible. Randy Pausch has many messages hidden within the book. It’s not hard to find important pieces of advice but not all of it is relative to me and my life. In fact there are even some things that we disagree on but that doesn’t mean that all of it isn’t helpful. Randy Pausch was a smart man who had a lot of good advice.…

    • 567 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ‘The brain,’ according to Olds, ‘has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions’” (Carr 319). This expert opinion ultimately and fully shapes Carr’s claim to the audience. This logic gives evidence that what Carr’s saying is…

    • 691 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    With every new advancement in technology, as with new gizmo, it has this new effect on the way we think, I find it inevitable that our brains are going to be rewired according to what we…

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    In The Menace of Negative People, Barbara Ehrenreich states, “That negative people do suck. They suck the energy out of positive people like you and me. They suck the energy and life out of a good company” (Ehrenreich). I couldn’t imagine what the world would be like with no negative people, but what I could tell you is that, if you stay away from negative people you will stay positive throughout your days. Barbra Ehrenreich writes, “A Kansas City pastor put the growing ban on “negativity” into practice, announcing that his church would now be “complaint free”.…

    • 1875 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The biological perspective is a genetic perspective which is determined by the biological propensity. The biological perspective is very closely linked with science. It studies the nervous system and genetics of genes. Scientists use tools such as MRI scans to look at how drugs, diseases and brain damage impact on our behaviour and cognitive functioning.…

    • 276 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dualism Vs Physicalism

    • 1103 Words
    • 4 Pages

    To lessen the aspect of the mind and brain being separate entities, there is a strong…

    • 1103 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Empathy Research Paper

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Why do we have empathy for others? Babies are the coolest empathizers, the way they mirror the others in their environment, with innocence and no judgment. Adults do this too, but on a broader generality. We do imitate the faces that we see everyday.…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This field of psychology has a relatively new field called cognitive neuroscience which includes the study of physical workings of 9the brain and the nervous system when engaged in memory, thinking, and other cognitive processes. (Ciccarelli & White, 2005.) The neuroscientists that study this field of cognitive perspective use tools that image the structure and activity of the living brain for example, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and positron emission tomography…

    • 834 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Negative thoughts have shown to be a leading cause in suicidal deaths, as well as many cases of homicide and murder. Who would of ever believed that the negativity in your head could have such an outcome on your life. We are our own worst enemy in life and making our own judgments. As we live coping with the negative things that surround…

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays