I gave You 50 claps, Steve. I'd give this one here 50 as well. It reminded me of "The Power of Bad" by Roy F. Baumeister (and I think John Tierney). They identify a big part of the problem: A whole industry built on everybody being encrusted with layers of fear.
When Eve ate the apple, and learned the power of "good," wo/man-kind coul…
I gave You 50 claps, Steve. I'd give this one here 50 as well. It reminded me of "The Power of Bad" by Roy F. Baumeister (and I think John Tierney). They identify a big part of the problem: A whole industry built on everybody being encrusted with layers of fear.
When Eve ate the apple, and learned the power of "good," wo/man-kind could look to the future an plan a better one. They rose above the capabilities they had when they were animals. But she and Adam also found the power of bad. The mind takes 2 1/2 good things to overpower the effects of one bad thing.
Would that we even saw 1/2 of a good thing for every bad thing we get foisted upon us by the bad industry.
"The mind takes 2 1/2 good things to overpower the effects of one bad thing."
Yeah, this is definitely a problem with human psychology. There are all kinds of examples of this, right? In marketing especially. A customer is X times more likely to remember a negative customer service experience than a positive one. And Y times more likely to talk to their friends about it. There's a clear evolutionary advantage to focusing on the negative.
The problem is, the issues we're trying to solve today are so much more complex and nuanced than those humans were worrying about when we ran around in loincloths. We can't fix anything if we don't maintain our perspective. Which social media and the 24 hour news cycle makes it especially difficult to do sometimes.😅
Well said. There's also the obligatory reference to content ranking algorithms. Negativity is more powerful, the algorithm grabs it, promotes it, creates more negativity, and boom, we're in a despair death spiral.
Yep, we really need to reckon with “the algorithm” at some point. These companies are knowingly dividing and deceiving people for profit.
As I was saying to someone else recently, it was t until I started writing seriously and researching sources carefully that I realised how partial and/or flat out inaccurate a lot of the information we receive is.
"The problem is, the issues we're trying to solve today are so much more complex and nuanced than those humans were worrying about when we ran around in loincloths."
Haha! And, yeah. True... And about why it's so difficult.
That's why I don't listen to news or social media. But that's just me.
I gave You 50 claps, Steve. I'd give this one here 50 as well. It reminded me of "The Power of Bad" by Roy F. Baumeister (and I think John Tierney). They identify a big part of the problem: A whole industry built on everybody being encrusted with layers of fear.
When Eve ate the apple, and learned the power of "good," wo/man-kind could look to the future an plan a better one. They rose above the capabilities they had when they were animals. But she and Adam also found the power of bad. The mind takes 2 1/2 good things to overpower the effects of one bad thing.
Would that we even saw 1/2 of a good thing for every bad thing we get foisted upon us by the bad industry.
TY for writing, Steve.
"The mind takes 2 1/2 good things to overpower the effects of one bad thing."
Yeah, this is definitely a problem with human psychology. There are all kinds of examples of this, right? In marketing especially. A customer is X times more likely to remember a negative customer service experience than a positive one. And Y times more likely to talk to their friends about it. There's a clear evolutionary advantage to focusing on the negative.
The problem is, the issues we're trying to solve today are so much more complex and nuanced than those humans were worrying about when we ran around in loincloths. We can't fix anything if we don't maintain our perspective. Which social media and the 24 hour news cycle makes it especially difficult to do sometimes.😅
Well said. There's also the obligatory reference to content ranking algorithms. Negativity is more powerful, the algorithm grabs it, promotes it, creates more negativity, and boom, we're in a despair death spiral.
Yep, we really need to reckon with “the algorithm” at some point. These companies are knowingly dividing and deceiving people for profit.
As I was saying to someone else recently, it was t until I started writing seriously and researching sources carefully that I realised how partial and/or flat out inaccurate a lot of the information we receive is.
"The problem is, the issues we're trying to solve today are so much more complex and nuanced than those humans were worrying about when we ran around in loincloths."
Haha! And, yeah. True... And about why it's so difficult.
That's why I don't listen to news or social media. But that's just me.