Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Warriors and Worriers

Some scholars have suggested that we are all Warriors or Worriers. Those with fast-acting dopamine clearers are the Warriors, ready for threatening environments where maximum performance is required. Those with slow-acting dopamine clearers are the Worriers, capable of more complex planning. Over the course of evolution, both Warriors and Worriers were necessary for human tribes to survive.

In truth, because we all get one COMT gene from our father and one from our mother, about half of all people inherit one of each gene variation, so they have a mix of the enzymes and are somewhere in between the Warriors and the Worriers. About a quarter of people carry Warrior-only genes, and a quarter of people Worrier-only.

- Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?

emphasis mine - vs.

also here:

In Kennedy’s sample, almost a third of the expert pilots were Worriers — a larger proportion than in the general population.

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