When Cutting Edge Science Proves What Ancients Always Knew

Can culture self-generate the same information scientists assemble? The answer may be yes - sometimes. These recent advances found remarkable insight into the human condition, yet echoed the oldest cultures in the world.

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Did the Chinese Predict the Dunedin Study?

I‘m telling my wife about The Dunedin Study. Scientists followed 1,037 people from the age of 3 to the present day. The researchers were stunned to find that personality types present at the age of 3 remained constant throughout life.

“三歲定八十歲” my wife says, which meant nothing to me. She translated, “‘Three years old determines eighty years old’. It’s a Chinese saying.” This remarkable scientific achievement, hotly contested by scientists around the world, already had a Chinese proverb.

What took a dozen scientists forty years, a few billion Chinese learned over several thousand years. The result is the same. To someone raised in Hong Kong, this is common knowledge.

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