A student asks how to follow creativity and spark when socialization pushes materialism; Jiang accepts the problem and answers that bravery and listening to the heart are required.
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Socialization
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...things that what we want to do? I think that requires socialization between other people. But if you socialize, they will bring what you..."
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Society, schools, companies, and organizations socialize people into mundanity, while the true self remains divine.
Empathy is defined as a born emotional connection with others that develops through intimate bonds rather than being produced by social norms.
He closes by stating the core reversal: humans are not socialized into empathy; they are born into empathy and socialized out of it.
Jiang agrees with the interviewer's staged account of empathy and maps it onto an educational sequence in which people first become individuals and then learn to socialize properly with others.
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"...things that what we want to do? I think that requires socialization between other people. But if you socialize, they will bring what you..."
"Yeah, okay. That's a great question. And it's a problem, right? Because as you say, your parents, the school society brainwashes you to believe..."
"Eventually, you'll figure that out. And then you're like, you know what I should do? I should do what I believe to be true...."
"Okay? So, this is another lesson that you will learn this semester. We are socialized into mundanity. Our true selves are divine. Okay? You're..."
"...thought that the empathy is, our empathy is shaped by the socialization and social norms by the society."
"Yeah, actually, that's a really good question, okay? So, empathy just means our connections with others, okay? And it's something we're born with. So,..."
"Severely, breaking that emotional connection. And once the emotional connection is broken, remember, empathy, we crave empathy. We crave emotions more than we crave..."
"...you know, what educators call the individualization. Yeah. And, and the socialization process where you first have to become an individual before you can,..."
"and socialization like if we are an infant how do we know what is right or wrong and what should"
"...revealing his true self. Okay? What Alzheimer's is, is losing your socialization. Because you're losing your ability to speak. You're losing your ability to..."
"...it's almost similar to having Alzheimer's where you shed away your socialization and you almost enter a spiritual realm. Okay? As you can see,..."
"...Sunflower. Okay? We can see how he has shedded away his socialization. He doesn't care how this is communicated to other people. All he..."
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