hummingbirds and rabbit holes

Hi I wanted to do my project on the human

brain. So like that's what I did and there's just

a bunch of different things.

So I chose to be a hummingbird for my project.

So first let's go to thoughts and stuff.

My first question was why do we think and nobody

really knows why they just know we have causes for

our thoughts and stuff.

So there's a proximal and distal causes possible being the

experiences you have and distill being like um basically everything

that's ever happened.

And then in the middle of researching my brain was

like what if your project is actually due tomorrow and

you're just completely failing.

And then I was like oh my God I should

look up intrusive thoughts.

So that's exactly what I did.

Um Everyone can have intrusive thoughts especially people with O.

C. D.

Anxiety and depression and they can definitely be amplified by

triggers. These thoughts are low key kind of scary and

can have terrible impacts on your mental health.

And they come out of past fears or experiences like

um the proximal thing from the last slide and I

got to thinking about my friends having intrusive thoughts and

then I realized people are kind of cool sometimes.

So um I asked myself like are some people better

than others and I found out that this question can't

really be answered.

It's kind of like a paradox.

Obviously some people are more artistic and talented and art

is also subjective, but they could be bad people too.

My 10 year old cousin hasn't murdered or cheated on

anybody um probably, but a lot of great artists have

and I mean they both draw so what's the difference

besides their history?

I guess steve jobs and Picasso were terrible people but

they're looked up to every day and it's even harder

to tell who's a good person when it comes to

political ideas and social issues and writing down political stuff.

Got me thinking too big egos and I've always wondered

this kind of stuff, So does telling people they're better

at something, make them better.

In general, my mom mentioned this lady named Dr Jane

Elliott who did this cool test called the Blue eyes

Brown eyes experiment.

She took her third grade class and was basically like,

here you're better than this little kid thing because you

have blue eyes.

And then the next day she switched it around.

Um, the kids on top got special privileges and we're

like snotty little dictators, but when the roles were reversed,

the other kids weren't as bad because they knew how

it felt to be on the bottom.

Another thing mentioned is that in the interview, jane says

she got death threats and just really awful things happening

when she was giving speeches around the country.

And I just thought that was really weird because she's

talking about racism and then people were being racist to

her even though she's what it's fine.

Um Anyways this trigger like a what is praised due

to people.

So I looked that up and found that praise releases

dopamine for both you and the person you're praising and

it builds good relationships and motivates people to do their

work better.

So that's nice.

Um A lot of my friends are doing serial killers

for this project and I kind of got bored with

all the happy stuff.

So I moved on to something darker, which is why

we're looking at the differences between our brain and a

serial killers.

Uh serial killers have less gray matter in their brain,

which basically means they can't process information the same way

and have less empathy.

But we're difference is that it's like if a killer

has schizophrenia or psychosis or whatever other mental impairment, they

don't really have the same lack of gray matters.

So those people, they're different, like scientists can't really figure

out what makes those people kill.

Um, and now this is my favorite part because I

got to judge.

My friends were looking at narcissistic traits and people and

also like narcissism versus confidence.

Um, it kind of links to the Prezi thing and

the other bubble.

I interviewed two people in a regular english class and

two in this humanities class and the results were kind

of what I expected.

Some questions I had going into it were about social

media and self esteem and how to tell a part

of narcissist.

But I figured since I'm not a licensed psychologist, I'm

not really qualified to talk about accusing people of um

having a disorder.

If you look at my very amazing graph, the black

represents the people score for themselves and the white is

score their partner got for them because I have them

take the test for themselves and for the other person

as well, if that makes sense.

So what I found was that humanity, students were consistently

higher and confidence than regular students and they also thought

they were more talented and funnier and better overall.

And the reason for that is literally just because of

their grades and social status and what their lives were

like. It didn't matter what artistic talent they had or

athleticism or whatever.

So that was interesting.

Oh, and I also did a mini experiment on a

bunch of my other friends and the results were actually

kind of the same.

I found the more introverted the person the less confident.

They were obviously none of the people I interviewed her

actually narcissists.

But there's a link between it and what I tested,

so that was really cool to see in people.

Um Anyways, that's the end of my presentation and here's

my were excited to give credit to the lovely, lovely

people that helped me, I guess.

Thank you for watching.

Bye bye.

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