Is mental strength genetics?

[keep-itreal]

yes, no?

[ROCSteady]

I think it's more learned from the way you grow up and the people who raise you but if you have some kind of weaknesses that are attributed to mental disorders and prescribed by doctors then there is a genetic component involved

[DonD13]

23.6%

the rest is learned/environment/circumstances

[embersyc]

Only your minimum/maximum capacity.

[Akrazotile]

Like most things, it is an disentanglable product of nature and nurture.

[Long Duck Dong]

IMO cold weather people. Like Europeans, Koreans, Japanese developed greater willpower because all the lazy and weak minded individuals succumbed to the fierce winters.

[iamgine]

It's both and you can be strong in one thing but weak in other things.

Some guys can have the heart to fight multiple opponents and get beat up but can't even stick to a simple diet because he's not mentally tough enough to resist food.

[Akrazotile]

IMO cold weather people. Like Europeans, Koreans, Japanese developed greater willpower because all the lazy and weak minded individuals succumbed to the fierce winters.


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[Bandito]

It's both and you can be strong in one thing but weak in other things.

Some guys can have the heart to fight multiple opponents and get beat up but can't even stick to a simple diet because he's not mentally tough enough to resist food.
You just described me :lol

[Dresta]

Of course it is, but there are also many other factors that come in to play, from your direct family, to your surrounding culture (take the example of the incredible fortitude of the early Romans), to the myths and stories you are told as a child, the books you read, and in the end, how you decide to orient your life.

These things cannot be delineated.

[ISHGoat]

I don't think mental strength is hereditary. For one, its not so easily classifiable nor quantifiable.

[Velocirap31]

Back in the early 1900's and earlier, I bet the majority of people were mentally tough. Nowadays, even the weakest people get by just fine with help from society.

[CeltsGarlic]

just stop crying your heart out

[UK2K]

It's a matter of environment.

How did Roman soldiers not get PTSD? How do Syrians not get PTSD? Because they grew up living shit lives and killing is all they've known. Once you do it long enough, it doesn't bother you anymore.