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Is mental resilience inherited or acquired through experience?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 25 Feb 25

We often have heard tales of people succeeding in spite of odds. In every sphere of life, we meet people and some of them have good mental resilience. Their ability to cope with challenges and bounce back from things has always...

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Colour blindness...

Evelyn @Mbenieve (567) • Kenya 28 Aug 20

It's the inability to distinguish between different colours, e.g red and blue. It affects more men than women. It's usually inherited. Some people recover fully after a few years, while others live with the condition throughout...

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What is your best inherited quality?

Icydoll @Icydoll (36713) • India 6 Jan 18

Let's talk about the inherited qualities .what are inherited qualities you have from parents .it's really gives you happiness when someone says that you are looking like a father or mother I got some qualities like Dimples, curly...

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You are what you eat

AbbyGreenhill @AbbyGreenhill (45490) • United States 15 Jul 17

A woman I know through Facebook for the last four years doesn't have an easy life. Her husband is a trucker and he is not healthy. She is not healthy. They have three kids who are also not healthy. They also live from hand to...

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What is your best inherited quality?

Bhagyashree Suvarna @hydraa (806) • Mumbai, India 28 Jul 16

There are a lot of things we learn from our parents. They guide us when we are immature or when we are wrong. They help us through all the obstacles and difficulties. But most of all, there are some qualities that you acquire from...

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Our Small Farm

Macarrosel @Macarrosel (7498) • Philippines 25 May 16

We have a small farm planted with lots of fruit trees. It is located in another town, far away from our house. I inherited this farm from my parents. My father was the one who planted all these fruit trees such as lanzones,...

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I Am Leaving...

Macarrosel @Macarrosel (7498) • Philippines 8 Apr 16

Yeah, I am leaving, but definitely from not here. My family is leaving tomorrow to another town particularly to my hometown where I was born. We go there to renovate my parent's house that I inherited from them. We decided to...

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What is the best quality you've inherited from either of your parents?

Debra Singletary @happytails (299) 29 Sep 15

I think it would have to be their business sense and their never give up attitude. My mom is one of the strongest women I know. She endured a lot of physical and mental abuse and yet still managed to go to school to be a hair...

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What Have YouInherited From Your Parents

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 29 Aug 12

What is the best quality you've inherited from either of your parents? I think I might have inherited some of the better things about them as well as some of the bad ones too but the positive ones is what I'm more concerned with....

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Are family vices passed down through the generations?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 12 Jul 11

If the parents are alcoholics, the offspring are likely to be as well. If a woman had an unplanned baby in her teen-hood, her daughter is has a higher likelihood of repeating that mistake. If a couple divorces, their children are...

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Does early adoption help to escape from the inherited genetic influence?

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 10 Apr 11

A child adopted at a very early age can well adapt with the environment of the family he is adapted by. Do you think that this early adoption will help him to escape from the genetic influence he has inherited from his...

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Best Quality You've Inherited?

razor123 @razor123 (979) • India 12 Apr 09

What is the best quality you've inherited from either of your parents? From my Mom: My very humble nature character and kindness. And also my blood group. Both of us are 'O' positive. Smile From my Dad: His color. I'm...

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Happy genes,sad genes,impatient genes-what have you inherited from your parents?

mimpi @mimpi1911 (25464) • India 26 Mar 09

Recently major depression made Nicholas Hughes to end his life. This is attributed to the genes which relates back to his mother's classic suicide case! Certain people are much more likely to be exposed to stressful life...

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Is depression inherited

shymurl @shymurl (2765) • United States 22 Sep 08

I had heard that depression was inherited. Well I have been off and on with anti-depressants for a while now. Not long ago I found out that my mother and my father are both taking anti-depressants. It made me think about...

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If You Inherited a Musical Instrument, Would You Restore It and Play It?

Pigglies @Pigglies (9329) • United States 18 Jul 08

I inherited a 16 hole Hohner chromatic harmonica, made in Germany. It looks very nice, but would need a bit of fixing up to be playable. I didn't have a 16 hole chromatic before this, so I'd love to try to play this one. But I'm...

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What is the one thing you are glad that you didn't inherit from your parent/s?

dedicated_28 @dedicated_28 (1383) • United States 26 Apr 07

I am so glad that I didn't inherit my mother's horrible idea of decorating. Let me explain. She had apparently misunderstood the meaning of decorative paper towels, she will place these on her tables/endtables as doilies. Another...

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depression

amylou8521 @amylou8521 (324) 9 Apr 07

Is depression inherited through genes? Or are bad days just bad days, and because depression runs in the family you think u have it also? Is it all just psychological?

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What makes you left or right handed?

socorban @socorban (650) • United States 17 Mar 07

Im just curious s to what exactly makes on eleft or right handed. My Mom and dad are both left handed, yet i turn out right handed. What is it that does this? Is it a gene thing or is it simply practice from child hood? What about...

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What determines how badly you get a cold?

michelledarcy @michelledarcy (5220) 2 Feb 07

One of my daughters always seems to get colds much worse than the other. I wondered whether that was to do with genetics or whether it was to do with other factors like her diet etc.

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The Strangest Things We Inherit From Our Family Genes!!

ItTakesAllSorts @ItTakesAllSorts (4096) 1 Feb 07

When I had my kids I was amazed at some of the traits they had inherited from my side of the family and my partners. My son would always walk around on his toes, which my mum said she used to do as a kid. My son stays up...

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