We exist in an unstable and turbulent environment bombarded with a multitude and diversity of dynamic forces acting on us, regulating the way we ought to behave and conduct our way of life. There is no avenue to escape from these forces. We are trapped in it by our existence to survive and grow in our life processes. We are compelled to discriminate, choose, cope, accept, resist and adapt to them for survival and growth. The way we go around fighting these forces varies from one individual to another and that makes us different from each other.

By an act of God, we are thrown into our mother’s womb, and in that life process, we inherited some genes; and that makes us different the moment we are born.

We grow up in our family within a society with unique, beliefs, traditions, norms and values. They design life support and value systems to regulate and condition our conduct of life. They taught us how to behave, think, feel and do things. Due to our genetic differences, our approach towards these systems varies from individual to individual. Some of us accept, some fight these systems while others adapt. Those who accept are rewarded with the pleasures of life while those who fight means pains and to some even death. Those who adapt learnt the pains and pleasures of life. Pain is learnt through resistance while pleasure is learnt through conformity. It is these life experiences that make our gap of differences even bigger and wider. This gap becomes greater for those who are exposed across cultural experiences.

Our phenomenal field make each of us look at the world from different perspectives. How we view the world determines how we do, feel and think about things around us. What to do with them varies from one individual to another making us so unique in dealing with life situations.

Thus our behavior is a function of our genes, experiences and the environment. According to research about 15 –20% of our behavior are inherited, the rest are learned from our experiences in the environment within our life span.