Challenges build resilience, you were forged in a fire. People don’t need motivation, they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. I would rather blame the absentee fathers than the women who are often left holding the baby. You can sort of get through a difficult situation, but you eventually do have to sort of pay the cost later. Don’t assign too much value to whatever emotion you’re feeling in the moment, think more about the future. Affluent people score relatively low on measures of empathy, they favor cold calculations for decision-making. Upward social mobility shouldn’t be a priority as family, stability, and emotional security for children are more important. Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about hard work and sacrifice. Luxury beliefs are ideas that confer status on the upper class at very little cost, while inflicting costs on the lower classes. Children with stressful lives tend to get their adult teeth earlier and undergo accelerated changes in their brain structure.
Rob AndersonFilter bubbles don't really exist online, and despite being partly seeable, you're still more confronted to opposite viewpoints online than in real life. You are the most ideologically isolated in real life with real people: filter bubbles are in real life. Because our human brain is stupid and seek to maintain a certain social structure in order to survive, it often can't live peacefully with others online. We could disagree with our neighbor but still root for the same local team and make fun of people from the next village. Physical closeness made us familiar and bridged gaps of different world views that weren't that different to begin with as we shared the same culture. We like what is similar to us and what surrounds us is. As communities grew in size, diversity followed, which isn't always bad as it help confronting ideas on how to be better. However, our brain doesn't care about the meta-level of humanity but by being safe in a tribe. Since people started meeting online rather than in real life, our brain derailed with the amount of confrontations it got. Whether we like it or not, our brain sorts people by opinions which goes further than tribes. Because we don't have the local social glue with people online, we can't tolerate their different viewpoint. Their idea becomes their identity to you. You like by default people who think like you, and dislike those who don't. The most engaging emotion is anger, which amplifies everything online with polarization and distortion. You are correct and others are bad according to you, you are bad and they're correct according to them. This dissolved our society's social glue. It is easier to change yourself than to change the world. We had less conflict in the early internet because it was fractured into thousands of different communities acting as small villages separated from villages, they mirrored real-life better than social media with they're own rules. Instead of gathering all in one place, let's go back to smaller communities. We're all in the humanity community together.
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