Mehdi Le Pennec
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Mehdi Le Pennec
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — James Baldwin
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The scary thing about Asch’s conformity experiments is that you can get many people to say black is white, if you put them in a room full of other people saying the same thing. The hopeful thing about Asch’s conformity experiments is that a single dissenter tremendously drove down the rate of conformity, even if the dissenter was only giving a
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The Asch conformity experiment
About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way... See more
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way... See more
Adam Mastroianni • So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself
“I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us unless it’s inside a frame.” - Abbas Kiarostami