#Enegetic-System

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THEORY TO USE - Kandinsky’s colour theory 

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first artists who was able to express how different colours affected emotions, a core principle of modern art. He was fascinated by the relationship between music and colour. He even developed a code for representing music through colour (shown above).

Some theorize that Kandinsky experienced synesthesia, meaning he was able to experience two senses at once, like colours producing music or seeing colors when he heard music. These experiences were reflected in his paintings, and he often titled his works after music terms. Looking at some of his paintings, I feel you can almost hear a mixture of sounds performing from the canvases. I think it is important for me to try achieve this within my own work.

“According to Kandinsky…, a dull shape like a circle deserves a dull color like blue. A shape with intermediate interest like a square deserves an intermediate color like red. A dynamic, interesting shape like a triangle deserves an enegetic, luminous, psychotic color like yellow.

Would you find this theory useful to you or not, I think it is an interesting theory to now know. Kandinsky has developed it not only by his synesthesic understanding of the colors (which could be different for many people), but also based it on his own experience of people’s reaction on his work.

As I am working specifically with Jazz I think using Kandinsky's theory to help guide me with creating a system for myself is a perfect way to get me started to then let myself develop it further and create an animation that can successfully visualise music using three main topics: shape, colours and size. Combining this and the theory semiotics should give the guidance I need on creating a successful and understandable system that the audience can follow and hopefully relate to certain things because of the way I have followed certain rules within these theories.

http://www.itp.jasonsigal.cc/kandinskify/

https://ekaterinasmirnova.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/basic-color-theory-by-kandinsky-44/

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Extra Typology Vol #3 - Your Type & Your Life

As seen in the previous entries, one’s personality style can be seen as both a map to one’s inner geography and the scaffold of one’s outward direction - The experiences & people that you seek out & the way you react to them, as well as the ways you change or stay the same are all mediated by the inner filters that organize your experience, and once one considers all that it’s easy to see how one’s personality can be tantamount to a kind of ‘destiny’  or self-fulfilling prophecy - 

Therefore, one may want to know just how exactly one got stuck with theirs. 

Inborn Differences

At the present state of our knowledge, it is safe to say the the ‘Tabula Rasa’ theory is ripe for the trashbucket - Indeed we continue to learn more about how human babies aleady come ‘preprogrammed’ with an astounding lot of ‘software’ & in the process substantiate what anyone who had multiple children or numerous siblings may have observed for themselves: That tiny humans already come with notably different behavior patterns; and indeed it’s common knowledge at this point that both predispositions for disorders and ordinary run of the mill personality traits can run in families, though the exact interconnections of everything still present considerable mysteries. 

In the psychological jargon, it’s common to use ‘the term ‘temperament’ for the hand of inborn tendencies you’re deal with an conception which gives you a range of possibilities & provides the base material for the environment to act upon, and ‘character’ for the possibility that is fnally realized through interaction with the environment & personal choice, the finished product if you will. 

Almost from the first moments of life, parents may notice particularities in their new mini-me: Some babies cry a lot, some don’t, some are more easily soothed than others.  Some quickly develop regular eating & sleeping patterns whereas others are harder to train to any pattern, some are meek & easygoing while others are prone to strong reactions - 

Each of us enter the world with our own particular constitution, theshold and reaction patterns, and a study begun in 1956 has since shown that behavior at the age of 3 is a powerful predictor of personality in adulthood - A rambunctious baby generally becomes an active adult, a shy baby a reserved person etc. Turns out even small toddlers who have barely mastered talking & going potty can already be assesed & quantified by the following means:

Activity Level - Even an infant has a characteristic level of activity vs inertia, from sluggish to enegetic

Regularity - Some are regular in their eating, sleeping and other biological functions 

Aprroach vs. Withdrawal - when presented with a new toy, food, peson or stimulus, does the baby generally react positively with interest or negatively & fearfully?

Adaptability - Does the child learn & adjust to new stuations & tasks easily, or do they have difficulty adjusting to change?

Threshold of Responsiveness - What does it usually take to get a ‘rise’ out of the baby? A stong sensory stimulus like a loud voice, or a mild one such as a soft voice? Does the child easily become overstimulated by sensory experiences?

Reaction intensity - Some kids react loudly to everything, whereas others are typically less intense in their positive & negative reactions

Mood - Even babies have characteristic mood patterns, varying from predoinantly cheerful to frequently unhappy

Distractability - Does the child tend to focus on tasks on hand, or are they easily 

Attention Span and Persistence - How long does the baby typically stick with an activity, and wll they pesst despite difficulty?

...across cultures and regardless of the parent’s attitudes & actions. Even physiological responses (such as pupil widening & heartbeat increase in response to stress) can be measurably different as early as 4 months. 

Of course genes alone don’t cause a baby to react to a new face with tears or an adult to go to pieces after a breakup - what they do determine is the way an organism’s brain develops and the range of its normal neurobiological & biochemical reactions that characterize its personal style of responding to the environment & like everything in the human body it can break or be broken. 

Genes may present a range of possibilities, but it is experience that determines what becomes of those possibilities.

Environmental Impacts - A more systemic perspective

From birth, an infant begins to learn from others, adapt to their experiences within the family & to develop styles of coping with the environment - but in the light of the above, and of recent findings, this has to be viewed as a more reciprocal relationship: Rather than being passive victims of what life dishes out, we influence life just as life influences us: 

Life shapes what will become of our genetic possibilities, but our inborn nature also affects what will happen to us. It’s not just that different people react differently to the same stimuli, but rather, from the beginning, a baby’s temperament affects the experiences they are most likely to have. A child’s temperament influences how their parents may react to them - and how the baby in turn reacts to the parent’s reactions, demands & expectations depends on those same qualities of temperament, resulting in a wide variety of parent-infant interactions. 

Say, you have a meek, mellow, easy-to-handle baby - their parents are likely to be quite happy with them, and the baby themselves will learn that their parents are easy to please and that the world can be a pretty fulfilling place. Cranky babies, however, may iritate & frustrate their parents, some of which may overreact & mistreat them. A baby of more challenging temperament may bring out the worst in their parents, especially if those parents are immature or incompetent, with the result that the fussier baby will have an even harder time dealing with the parent’s negative reactions & become even more difficult to manage, whereas a chill undemanding baby will have their adaptability rewarded with love & attention - 

If you consider this it’s easy to see how two babies could end up with completely different experiences of themselves, the world & their parents even within the same household. A child that’s more of a handful may be more stessful to their parents and elicit more unpleasant responses such as criticism or anger, to which they are in turn temperamentally  more sensitive than other kids - a more sensitive kid may require more patience & undestanding than many parents can give, especially if the parents in question are immature, inexperienced, inflexible, disordered or bogged down with stress, conflict an outside factors like their financial situation - And if the parents are outright abusive, a child that talks back will probably bear the brunt of it. 

This doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with a “fussy” baby- they’re just within the normal range & divesity of child developement, and indeed, given favorable circumstances, it may even present its own advantages: Place that same cranky baby in a well-to-do family with good verbal skills, and it will likely develop a higher IQ by age five than would their meek and easy-to-manage peers. In such families, a fussier temperament turns into an intellectual advantage because parents from higher educational and economic backgrounds tend to talk, communicate and interact more with these demanding children in their efforts to get them to adapt better, and this added stimulation promoted intellectual developement. 

Studies conducted on tribal societies even suggest that they have better survival chances in times of scarcity - precisely because they make more noise & demand to be fed. Also, cultural attitudes can put a quantifier on this - in our society schools & nurseries are very comformist places where the staff needs to deal with a lot of kids so a more rambuctious child may be penalized, but a warlike society may prize aggressive behavior (and of course that’s where gender stereotypes rear their ugly head again because we at present accept a lot more ‘wild’ behavior from little boys)

The “Goodness of Fit” Theory

So what can we conclude from this? Well, that the interplay between the factors involved in making a person is complex, but we knew that already.

For every developing child, they ey to wether their inborn temperament will mature into a positive outcome is what researchers call ‘goodness of fit’ - wether the baby’s individual temperament can fit harmonously into their family & large environment - Can the growing child with their innate abilities, wants and behaviors and the family or social environment meet each other’s needs and demands? 

Every temperament provides advantages & disadvantages depending on the environment. When the parents, teachers or surrounding culture repeatedly asks more of a child than they can give at a particular time, the stress on the child may begin to distort the way their personality develops. But if the fit is good, it can ehance strenghts and help overcome vulnerabilities. 

Most children develop resilient personalities that carry them through even the worst stresses of adulthood without developing psychiatric disorders then or later - experience toughes them but doesn’t distort them. On the other hand, though more rambuctious kids are at higher risk, just about any child can develop behavior problems from the excessive stresses that result from a poor fit - A very outgoing, active family may repeatedly push & demand too much from a sweet, quiet, passive stay-close-to-home child. A quiet, careful, stay-at-home family may uneccesary restrict forward, adventurous behaviors in an active, outgoing child. A sweet, cheerful,  loving baby may be born to a very depressed mothers who can’t give the baby the rewarding feedback that healthy personality developement requires. An easily distracted child may develop a problem if their parents insist that they concentrate for long amounts of time without a break -

And though the parents of a child with problems may think the child’s temperament is at fault, the difficulty actually lies in the nature of the match between parent and child - and the opposite is true: An attentive, patient  family may protect a kid with sucky genetics from developing problems by potecting it from life experiences to which they may be especially suceptible & prevent them from falling into unhealthy patterns, turning what could have been the beginning of much difficulty into temporary growing pains. 

As for the noxious factors themselves it is to be noted that, overprotecting a naturally reactive and/or sensitive child actually made the reactiveness more likely to stick & result in a more shy or inhibited person than when the parents were accepting but made age-apropriate demands on cleanliness and behavior. 

Another thing to note that it is less individual incidents and more systemic situations than can do harm, particularly in the child’s early years - To their surprise researchers found that divorce or the dead of a parent did not predict negatives outcome, but witnessing repeated conflict between the parents did - in other words the common cliché of “staying together for the children” may do more harm than good. 

On that note...

Tipps for Parents

Do not try to treat all your children identicaly, but rather, accept and respect your child’s fundamntal inborn style & recognize that they may have special needs  relating to their temperament. Objectively identify the child’s strenghts and vulnerabilities, and support their positive qualities and individual nature. 

Above all, do not blae yourself or your child if they don’t meet your expecations. Don’t fight your child’s inborn temperamental qualities and don’t punish them for having difficulties. Keep in mind that your child’s temperamental difficulties do not in themselves meant that they are destined for trouble later in life - unless you get into a viscious cycle of negative reactions to each other. In fact, with good management, your rambuctious hell-toddler may turn out to be a highly creative, unusual, even exceptional person like many a famous leader.  

A child with temperamental difficultis needs strong, loving management so that they can learn good coping skills.

Your Adult Life

Though your basic personality is ‘done’ by the time you exit your childhood, experience & biology continually mold & modify you, building on what has gone before and sometimes pointing you in new directions. 

Diseases, injuries & medical conditions can sometimes alter long-established personality patterns (usually in an unfortunate direction), but barring such illness or injury, the brain physiologically remains adaptable thoughout the aging process, capable of reacting with the environment to form new connections among brain cells and to alter old ones - Indeed according to the latest neuroscience, the potential ability of brain cells to adapt or change may never deteriorate thoughout your entire life cycle -

Heck, the process of aging may even modify your personality in a rather pleasant direction. Researchers have detemined that people’s ‘panic centers’ decrease in activity after age 40, which is perhaps why most people seem to naturally mellow as they reach middle age. Adaptation may come easily or wth difficulty, but generally one’s pattern of responses always carries a built-in potential for expansion & change with it.