Human Behavior
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Human Behavior
- A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazovfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
simon added 4mo ago
- Applied “framing”: the interface
Most human behavior is strangely path-dependent. It’s significantly affected by strain and heuristics. By the way, if you sent that phone-only response out to my children’s generation, you’d get a 0% response rate because they really, really hate talking on the phone. What you do now is, for anyone under the age of ... See morefrom The Third Eye by Kris Abdelmessih
("JP") added 4mo ago
If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we’d desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.
from Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
sari added 7mo ago
- We therefore owe it to ourselves to try to reconcile the inside and outside views. Because let's not flatter ourselves: we believe crazy things too. We just have a hard time seeing them as crazy.
from Crony Beliefs by meltingasphalt.com
sari added 8mo ago
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
from White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) by Janet Fitch
sari added 9mo ago
- the brain is commonly regarded as a thinking machine, but it’s more often the opposite: a machine that tries to circumvent thinking. This is because cognition costs time and calories, which in our evolutionary history were scant resources.
andrea added 10mo ago
- it’s likely that 80% of our individual bad behavior is attributable to versions of ourselves that exist only 20% of the time. For example, that 10pm version of you who drinks excessively, texts the ex that isn’t good for you and neglects basic self care.
Around the holiday season, this 20% version of yourself can become fully in charge where one mor... See morefrom The power law of good behavior by Bryan Johnson
Stuart Evans added 10mo ago
- What upsets people is not what happens to them, but their thoughts about what happens.
from The Way of Integrity Quotes by Martha N. Beck
alex added 1y ago
- It was striking how many of Elon’s early tweets about Twitter’s issues seemed to pin Twitter’s underperformance on engineering problems. Response times, things of that nature. But Twitter’s appeal was never a pure feat of engineering, nor were its problems solely the fault of engineering malpractice. They were human in nature. Twitter isn’t, as man... See more
from How to Blow Up a Timeline
sari added 1y ago