Genes are not everything

It never ceases to amaze me how many people out there are in bad situations because they put themselves in those situations. Yet they are the people, who most often blame everyone else for their situation instead of knowing where it belongs, which is on them. Both, life and business are all about the decisions that a person makes. If you make good decisions, you have a good life. Otherwise, you bear the consequences of your act. It's really very simple which many don’t comprehend. As a person whom networks with someone easily, I hear some of the most ridiculous excuses that you can never imagine. Some people can give excuses like they were not in their lucid mind for mistreating their guests. Or even throw in the blame on their ailing health condition to dodge away their mistakes. And very rarely do I hear reasons to do something positive or of substance to forgive their blunder. Many people would trade in their self-esteem to make good with their relatives or friends in order to restore their relationship. How long are you going to give in all the time while your dignity will be taken granted if this goes on? People say forgive and forget is a noble thought to practice. I might consider forgiving if it is something worth but I will not forget. For instance, the sinners got away with their sins and remain sinful because of the decisions they make and have made in the past. It's all about decisions and habits. One thing they failed to realize that one fine day, they will pay the price for what they did when Karma slaps back.
There is really a simple reason why 99% of the people fail at networking in general. Most of the time it is about bad decision or dysfunctional attitude. Simple understanding is that they have nothing to do besides making bad choices on how to treat people around them. This is what I call folly. Folly is made up from a blend of bad decision making and bad courtesy which ends in BAD RECIPE for an esteemed life and reputation. When I talk about courtesy, I mean attitude problem. Along the way, I met people assumes they are perfect and they believe they live with conscience. But it was the other way round. No matter how much you try to knock some dose of sense into their minds by noting exemplary persona for living a legendary doctrine, they still don’t get it. It never works. I would say it is in their genetic blueprint interacting with the environment factor (habit, and society to some extent) that determines their characteristics.
Although in this age, it seems that genes are everything and the talk of the town but the importance of environment in biology cannot be denied. Apparently it sounds paradox because traits is usually regarded as being genetically but not environmentally inclined. Thus, it appears to be certain culture in which the environment affects behavior of a person too. Does this mean that genes aren't, in fact, everything? Yes to a certain extent, some individual’s traits clearly show that gene-environment interaction is indeed an important regulator of what makes them up.
As I was skimming through the e-reading sites, I caught a glimpse of the concept of Pavlovian classical conditioning coined by a Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. It walks me down the memory lane back to university where I took up Psychology as one of my university paper. Behaviorism is one of their schools of thought whereby it’s based on the assumption that the environment shapes behavior (interactions with environment shape us into what we are now over the years). I just sat and tried to associate it to human’s nature; our characters are reflective of the environment where we were nurtured over the years. It shapes our disposition by associating learning process between environment and naturally occurring stimulus (blueprint). It makes perfect sense to me.
Only certain quarter of people that we meet daily knows how to network and treat everyone equally with respect. Most people are stuck in the conviction that they are superior and that they go around insulting people but they can get away with it. Do you think the world owes them a favor by tolerating their nonsense? Well guess what. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the world owes you nothing, and the only people I can treat well are the ones that respect everyone. It's totally up to you to help yourself. And here's one way to do it: Keep your mouth shut if you can’t convey good thoughts with respect. I think these type of people need to go back to basic moral lessons and ethics to earn a respect.
Or else, it is just that they are digging their own grave? Possibly yes.