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Human Psychology & Thinking

We all crave attention - Therefore if you even know everything, still you ask questions, just for attention

War is a tricky game the only way to win it is to not play it at all

True test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching

Mansons law of avoidance

It's very difficult to let your self image go

Being self critical is a must

Conform - (of a person) behave according to socially acceptable conventions or standards.

Everyone is an authority on everything these days. Take weight loss for instance. Everyone will have a tip or two to offer, much of it common sense; eat healthy, exercise daily, sleep well.

New tech, like BRC-20, will always attract some of the most brilliant engineers & investors…and the most brilliant scammers & risk-takers too.

I don't care how technically brilliant you are in your field; if you don't understand people, you're going to neutralize all your powers -- Robert Greene

Group Behavior / Group Dynamism / Social conformity​

The Asch Experiment

Another explanation is human beings' deep rooted desire to belong. We want to agree with the group so that we are accepted by the group -- being part of a group has proved beneficial, from an evolutionary standpoint, by offering better safety and security. The need to belong is still a strong motive for us to agree with the majority view point. This was established by Solomon Asch in the 1950s, through a set of famous experiments (called Asch's conformity experiments)

The experiments showed how normal, intelligent people were willing to give an obviously wrong answer to conform with the rest of their group (of merely actors) who chose the wrong answer to be the right answer. Asch opined, "That intelligent, well-meaning, young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern."

Social Conformity - Brain Games

The Milgram Experiment | THE HEIST | Derren Brown

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/think

  1. Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking
  2. What people present to the world is a tiny fraction of what's going on inside their head
  3. Prediction is about probability and putting the odds of success in your favor. But observers mostly judge you in binary terms, right or wrong
  4. We are extrapolating machines in a world where nothing too good or too bad lasts indefinitely
  5. There are limits to our sanity. Optimism and pessimism always overshoot because the only way to know the boundaries of either is to go a little bit past them
  6. Ignoring that people who think about the world in unique ways you like also think about the world in unique ways you won't like
  7. We are pushed toward maximizing efficiency in a way that leaves no room for error, despite room for error being the most important factor of long-term success
  8. The best story wins
  9. We are swayed by complexity when simplicity is the real mark of intelligence and understanding
  10. Your willingness to believe a prediction is influenced by how much you want or need that prediction to be true
  11. It's hard to empathize with other people's beliefs if they've experienced parts of the world you have not
  12. An innocent denial of your own flaws, caused by the ability to justify your mistakes in your own head in a way you can't do for others
  13. An underappreciation for how small things compound into extraordinary things
  14. The gap between knowing what to do and actually getting people to do it can be enormous
  15. We're bad at imagining how change will feel because there's no context in dreams
  16. We are blind to how fragile the world is due to a poor understanding of rare events
  17. The inability to accept hassle, nonsense, and inefficiency frustrates people who can't accept how the world works

How we make memories and how memories make us -- with Veronica O'Keane

  • Collective consciousness
  • Einstein, Sigmund Freud

Ethical dilemma: Would you lie? - Sarah Stroud

The original ring of power - Alex Gendler

  • Why people act justly
    • Is it because it's what's right
    • Or because it's a convention that's enforced through punishment and reward?
  • If presented an opportunity to get what they desired without consequence?
  • 3 Classes
    • We desire things for their own sake, like the experience of harmless pleasure
    • The second class of things we want only for the value they bring, though they may be onerous, like exercise or medicine
    • The third class comprises things we desire for their own sake and the value they offer, like knowledge and health
  • Glaucon argues that justice belongs to the second class of good: it's a burden that nevertheless brings rewards. The only reason anyone conducts themselves virtuously, he reasons, is due to external influences. So it's appearing, not actually being, virtuous that matters
  • Socrates, as written by Plato, disagrees, countering that justice belongs to the third class of good, offering both extrinsic and intrinsic benefits.
  • Human soul has 3 parts: Reason, spirt, and appetite
    • Reason guides an individual to truth and knowledge, and is influenced by either spirit or appetite
    • Spirit is righteous, ambitious, and the source of bold action
    • While appetite consists of baser (without moral principles), bodily desires
  • To Socrates, the philosopher is led by reason, and their spirit keeps their appetite in check, making them the most just and the happiest. Even without consequences for self-serving wrongdoings, they wouldn't commit them
  • Meanwhile, the tyrant succumbs to appetite and acts unjustly

ATLAS OF THE HEART by Brené Brown | Core Message

  • Envy
    • If I can't have that, I don't want you to have that
    • Schadenfreude - taking please in someone else's misfortune
    • Freudenfreude - taking pleasure in someone else's success
  • Pity
    • Pity - I'm glad that's not me. That couldn't happen to me
    • Compassion - Me too. That could be me
      • Ask what their experience is like?
      • Accept
      • Clarify
  • Disappointment

Mindwandering​

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Laws of Stupidity​

  1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
  2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
  3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
  4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.
  5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Gaslight​

Gaslight - manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.

psychological manipulation of a person for one’s advantage-causing the person to question the validity of their own thoughts, reality, or sanity.

Others​