While according to Peter Fisher (as below) knowing your ancestry can boost your IQ, personally, I’d go further and say that knowing your heritage can also give you a solid base, and a belonging. And we need to know where we belong.
‘Peter Fischer and his colleagues at the Universities of Graz, Berlin and Munich have shown that thinking about our ancestors boosts our performance on intelligence tests - what they've dubbed 'the ancestor effect'.But how can these be connected? And where does Christmas come into the picture (the post for Christmas Eve)? Well, aren’t religious celebrations are to remind us to our roots? The reason hasn’t changed for over two thousand years… We celebrate Christmas to remember the birth of Jesus and Easter to commemorate the resurrection of Christ. We celebrate to honour, to memorise, to perpetuate. We do so to remember our roots, and our heritage. Putting it that way makes more sense, doesn’t it? So go ahead and celebrate. It’s good for you in more ways you can think of!
Merry Christmas!
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