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Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
Part 2: Taming the Mammoth
Tim Urban • Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
Because of this, humans evolved an over-the-top obsession with what others thought of them—a craving for social approval and admiration, and a paralyzing fear of being disliked. Let’s call that obsession a human’s Social Survival Mammoth.
Tim Urban • Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits, one of which is a fixation with tribal-style social survival in a world where social survival is no longer a real concept. We’re all here in 2014, accompanied by a large, hungry, and easily freaked-out woolly mammoth who... See more
Tim Urban • Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
We “overvalue performance,” as one psychologist put it, “and undervalue the self.” We’re afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. “For to permit yourself to do only that which you are good at,” writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, “is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.”