The Formula for Fruition The Age Old Debate of Nature...

The Formula for Fruition: Nature vs. Nurture The Story of My Search Have you ever wondered what makes a person successful? Why is it that people who grow up in the same environment grow up to have such different qualities of life? As a child of two parents who would be considered â€Å"successful† by society, I’ve always wondered how differently I would perform in life had I been the child of different people or raised in a different environment. I’d heard plenty of stories about people coming from bad childhoods or being raised by unsupportive parents and still succeeding, but my question was, how common is this? How often is it that you can find people who succeed, in the way that society imagines success (happy, relatively wealthy, good at†¦show more content†¦nurture† and its effects. The article that I found on the internet stated that when people were first trying to understand the mind, people tended to be more extremist with their opinions on nature vs. nurture. â€Å"John Locke beli eved in what is known as tabula rasa, which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate. According to this notion, everything that we are and all of our knowledge is determined by our experience.† (Cherry) . Over time, with more research, it seems to be that nature and nurture work together to form who a person is, but when it comes to intelligence, scientists still debate which of the two may be a more powerful determinant. When I realized just how many aspects of life â€Å"nature vs. nurture† applies to, I decided to narrow my search down to how it affects your performance in school, because performance in school can easily determine your â€Å"success† later in life. The times you spend in school are the most formative periods of your life, so being able to determine whether or not your natural ability or environment affects you more in this setting can show how it affects your life in many other settings as well. The last thing I did to see how heredity and environment play a role in performance in school, was to to survey my classmates and find out for myself. The survey was meant to determine not only how common it is to find a person with less parental support and resources to get into a competitive high