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Self-Replication Belief
People never stop chasing ways that can make them happy. The beliefs on how to be
satisfied are gradually unswerving by corrupted thinking, which changes the ideas to some
ambiguous things, especially for young adults. Emerging adulthood is considered necessary as
the increasing ratio of young adults need more time to accustom the society. People can know
about this part of young adults from the article “What Is It about 20-Somethings?”, by Robin
Marantz Henig. Young adults in this period have uncertainty, ambiguous insight and choices,
which means that the transmission of beliefs easily affects them. Daniel Gilbert introduces the
concept of super-replicators in his article “Reporting Live from Tomorrow.” According to the
article, people can acquaint that super-replicators are wrong principles which state that things
like marriage and money can make people happy. The beliefs are plainly to transmit because
they can likely convenient people’s life. The beliefs also have some evidence that they use to
help in their transmission, thus creating more individuals believe them to be true. However, they
strive for getting wealthy and their happiness, and there is a common belief that production and
consumption is made for individual well-being. Such thoughts influence more in 20-somethings
than other parts of people because of their idealistic visions and possibilities. Super-replicating
beliefs can have negative effects which guide them in a wrong orientation to the emerging adults
such as believing that wealth can bring happiness, lowering their self-esteem which in turn limits
their vision thus confining their ideas; what is more, the need of prolonging the time to reach
adulthood may be considered as a super-replicator.
To begin with, super-replicators may bring some wrong information which leads to some
wrong decisions made by 20-somethings, such as earning more money can bring more
happiness. Truthfully there is no relationship between production of wealth and happiness. The
creation of wealth is there to serve the needs that exist in the economy. The aforementioned is
may be incorrect because happiness is only obtained from simple life and a good heart. The
super-replicating belief makes the unethical dilemma that might stop them from operating in
good faith and turn to be social misfits to get money. Under the effects of super-repliating
beliefs, young adults may make some incorrect choices. Henig pointed out in her article,
“Among the cultural changes he points to that have led to “emerging adulthood” are the need for
more education to survive in an information-based economy; fewer entry-level jobs even after all
that schooling; young people feeling less rush to marry because of the general acceptance of
premarital sex, cohabitation, and birth control; and young women feeling less rush to have babies
given their wide range of career options and their access to assisted reproductive technology if
they delay pregnancy beyond their most fertile years.”(Henig, P200). People can acknowledge
that the prolongation of emerging young adulthood is supposed to learn more knowledge rather
than chasing some super-replicators. It is not wise that the emerging adults concentrate more on
financial success than being happy-which is obtained through living a simple life. But it is easy
for a part of 20-somethings to make wrong decisions because of their immature thinking for
desiring happiness. In Gilbert’s article, as Adam Smith, the father of modern economics wrote in
1776: “The desire for food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach;
but the desire of the conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household
furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.” (Gilbert, P183). Young adults may give
up what they have and chase money when the super-replicator like money can bring happiness
transmits to the 20-somethings group. People’s desire is infinite. For that reason, they track cash
and give up what they need to do as students. Successful people often concentrate on the use of
funds to enhance their living conditions by making smart choices and improving their lives and
the ones around them.
Secondly, super-replication belief makes the emerging adult lower their self-esteem and
confine their imagination, just because of their sense of possibilities and ambiguous cognitive of
their identity. Plenty of young adults in the emerging adulthood do not have strong mental to
experience frustrations, and they are easy to believe super-replicators in such a particular period.
In Henig’s article, as Arnett, who did a survey about how the emerging time influence young
adults, points out that “Just as adolescence has its particular psychological profile, Arnett says,
so does emerging adulthood: identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between, and
a rather poetic characteristic he calls “a sense of possibilities.” (Henig, P200). By influencing
super-replicators like money can make people happy, the young adult may limit they envision in
just earning money. But wealth can be hard to obtain through connections, natural abilities and
lucks. Young adults in this period are sensitive, so they are easily get frustrated so that lower
their self-esteem. Super-replicators are easy to transmit one to another especially in the young
adults’ group because they have not copious life experience. And young adults are easily accept
and transmit some incorrect beliefs when they can benefit their life. In Gilbert’s article, “When
someone tells us where to find a parking space downtown or how to bake a cake at high altitude,
we adopt that belief and pass it along because it helps us and our friends do the things we want to
do, such as parking and baking.” (Gilbert, P181). Young adults are optimal to accept superreplicator because they think it can bring them happiness. It makes them less persistent in
education, especially if they lack all the above, thus losing hope and stopping to try. Also, the
super-replication belief connotes that one needs money to make money. The theory supports the
concept that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. The concept is recurring in
today’s world. It makes the emerging adult to the belief that hard work doesn’t pay and that
money is the only way to create opportunities and open more doors for success. Superreplication belief influences the emerging adults by showing them that the formal education is
useless, and the passion pays. The belief makes them believe that education paves the sense of
security and does not pave for wealth. The super-replicating belief can then influence than not to
broaden their thinking, thus failing in life,
What is more, the necessity of a prolonging the time to reach adulthood is also considered
as a super-replicator. The majority of young adults think that the prolonging time is helpful
because it can help them to accustom the strange society. But the truth is the time is almostly
useless for young adults and even have some negative effects. In Henig’s article “During the
period he calls emerging adulthood, Arnett says that young men and women are more selffocused than at any other time of life, less certain about the future, and yet also more optimistic,
no matter what their economic background.”(Henig, P203). According to Arnett’s opinion,
young adults are wasting their time, and it gets worse during such periods. They are
overconfidence of their future even they have inrich economic background. And they are getting
more self-focused which may influence their relationships. It is not like an important and
imperative period for 20-somethings to improve themselves. Moreover, super-replication belief
can influence the upcoming adult is that it can make them find comfort in uncertainties. The
prolonging time can satisfied young adults a lot so that make them feel stable and to rest on one’s
laurels, which means young adults waste their precious time of their life. In Gilbert’s article,
“False beliefs that happen to promote stable societies tend to propagate because people who hold
these beliefs tend to live in stable societies, which provide the means by which false beliefs
propagate.”(Gilbert, P182). Super-replicators can easily transmit by satisfy people’s need of
stable atmosphere. In fact, there is no need about such time for young adults to acostom the
society because this time is useless but can satisfied their enjoy time of stable environment.
Young adult are in favour of a stable environment so that make the prolongation of adulthood
become a so-called useful period, which can be considered as a super-replicator. Most people
value safety and uncertainties above everything else. That is why most adults will strive for the
job they don’t like and even pursue a degree that they don’t need in life. On the other hand, some
may find it comfortable to work in the uncertainties and exciting opportunities that others find it
difficult to pursue. Thus, those who thrive on changes will have more wealth than those who did
not have, the reason being the future is uncertain.
In conclusion, from Gilbert and Henig’s article, people can know the concept of superreplicators and the influence of it to young adults. Super-replicators are some incorrect beliefs
and the beliefs makes the adults that are emerging to see impossibilities in success so that they
may make some wrong decisions which influence their future, just because it shows that one’s
destiny is unchangeable. The beliefs state that those who are wealthy are capable of making their
dreams come true. They do not face any challenge to receive happiness, which constricts the
imagination of young adults. What is more, the prolongation of emerging adulthood may be
deemed as a super-replicator.
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