Psychopaths get a bad rap. The reality is that roughly 7% of people are psychopaths. When hearing the word psychopath most people associate it with violent offenders instead of the more common type that will often take up the career path of doctor or lawyer. The traits of a typical psychopath are socially irresponsible behavior diregarding or violating the rights of others, the inability to distinguish between right and wrong, difficulty with showing remorse or empthy, tendency to lie often, and manipulating and hurting others (general behaviors). The positives of a pyschopath include the ability to focus on tasks without worrying about outside noise, an ability to seperate yourself from emotional attatchments, complete goals no matter the risk and not letting typically squimish things bother them (again generalization). So what does a farm teach a pyschopath? The meaning of hard work and follow through. You want to stay warm for the winter? You gotta go chop down a tree, season the wood, and then haul yourself out everyday to bring in 20 pieces to keep a fire going through the night. This creates the ability to focus on long term goals instead of the goals and objectives in front of you, and there is no way to manipulate your way out of the task. You raise a new batch of chickens, the babies suddenly get attacked and now you have lost a whole generation. Now you know how to properly secure a fense and build stronger walls. Survival of the fittest is transformed into personal responsibility for the betterment of others. Second batch of chickens begins to grow. Then the mother abandons them in the hot sun. The smallest and weakest is the only one alive because they were buired beneath the bodies of the others. You take them home and clean them and nurse them back. The rules of the farm teach you that it may be better to let them die, they are the weakest and will require resources to nurse to health. Except that chicken grows into the largest rooster that you have ever seen and wins the top prize at the fair four times in a row. You have cayotes attacking your livestock. You could go out and kill the whole pack but because of your actions you now have an explosion of deer that just love to destroy your garden. Farm rules teach you to kill one and spread its body around to disparage the others. You learn that revenge is good, but it needs to have the intended effect, forcing you to think ahead of all consequences. You take 4 eggs into the house and break one. You could clean up the mess and hide it, no one will ever know. Except when it is time to make dinner now you only have 3 eggs. Breakfast tomorrow is gonna suck. All it takes is a little honesty and admit the mistake so that everyone knows to go get an extra egg in the morning, now breakfast doesn't suck. See the biggest thing about being a pyschopath is the lack of memories. Memories, ones that stick with you form over strong emotional reactions. Being a pyschopath they have little chance to form lasting memories because they don't have the same emotional capacity as a normal person. The life of a pyschopath is like looking at history broken into eras. There is a reason each era is named the way it is, but the details are for others. Farms force seasons to become eras, the harvest season, the baby season, the mating season, the cold season ect. It adds regualrites and helps facilitate healthier grow of memories. Maybe you wont remember the names of all the animals each year but you will remember the strong seasons, the strong batches, the coldest years ect. The more in touch with actual timelines you can get the more grounded you become instead of it all being a blur that leads to alot of the negative behaviors. Also is one of the last healthy places to learn about life and death in a healthy manner which unless you were raised on a farm you would never truely understand. Can't promise I will reply, first big post and done on mobile, and my fingers can't handle anymore. Feel free to destroy this opinion, I promote healthy debate.