- Definitions
- Teacups are fragile: breaks easily and does not self-heal
- Plastic is resilient: is not easy to break
- People are anti-fragile: the may break easily the first time but can self-heal
- Avoidance tends to make us more sensitive rather than protecting us
- Things do not frighten or dismay us but our perception does
- Feelings are compelling and are often unreasonable
- The rider’s job is to justify the elephant’s actions
- The propagation of “micro-aggressions” shifted focus from intent to impact
- Focusing on impact while ignoring intent makes one responsible for the feelings of others
- CARE
- Conscious empathy
- Active listening
- Responsible reaction
- Environmental awareness
- Education is meant to make people think
- Humans are wired for tribes and their morality
- “Morality binds and blinds”
- Identifying a common enemy is an easy way to expand your tribe, at least temporarily
- Policies of pure tolerance generally only empowers the already powerful
- Intersectionality requires looking at all classes, not just one
- Anonymity allows one to lose their identity to the group, leveraging
- Dogmatism
- Crusaders
- Groupthink
- Anti-intellectuals
- Concept creep is being used to normalize radical behaviors
- Words do not cause stress directly, rather only to those who interpret them as stressful
- Witch hunts
- Come on suddenly
- Crimes against the community
- Infractions are trivial or fabricated
- People are fearful to defend the accused
- We have shifted from acting out of a love of our current tribe to a hatred of any other tribe
- The less time a child has to be on their own, without a screen, the less capable of dealing with the world they are
- While crime has decline dramatically since the 1970’s, our fears have not
- Genes prime is but interaction finishes the learning process
- We need rough and tumble play to become fully capable adults
- “Perseverance without passion is drudgery.”
- Free-play is critical for “the art of association” or, detecting how others are feeling and adjusting play to compensate
- (Free-play for children is so important so they can learn how to keep the game going through their social interactions)
- Thousands of small little hindrances can be worse than tyranny
- Administrative interventions are required to support a culture of victimhood
- “Fair” distributions in response to merit is the default for toddlers and most people
- How the decision was made is important for justice, as is how people are treated
- Intuitive Justice is an overlap of equity theory and process Justice
- It is important for a Democratic society to open new inquiries about Justice debate them and act on them
- (Active discussions is a consistent theme here; without discussion, we have little way to know see and hear new viewpoints)
- Being wrong feels just like being right… The difference is the feeling when you realize you were wrong
- Pay as much attention to what apps youth are using as how much they are using them
- Your company should have a high tolerance for disagreement but no tolerance for violence or retribution
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