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Many times the “star student” or “star students” or teacher’s pet are the one who think in similar ways to the teacher.  An art teacher would have a very different ‘pet’ than that of the math teacher.    This seems to me to have a major connection to the comfort level in this Brain and Behavior Institute, how comfortable are we individually with the emergent environment.   I consider the summer institutes as my playground, and can therefore can interact and allow myself to play…say something insightful, or purposefully silly.

Socially, what we consider desirable, we will reward in our social network.  What we consider odd, we tend to avoid, personally and professionally.  Linguistic people tend to prefer to congregate together, as in book clubs, poetry groups and similar literary partaking.   

Bodily kinesthetic people tend seek social connections to others who are similar: i.e. ski clubs, scuba diving club, dancing groups.