![]() ![]() This becomes clear as day in our always-connected social media lives, where every second we’re awake, unchecked amygdalae can, and often do, hijack our bodies. #THE MONSTER WITHIN US PROFESSIONAL#That is, our own, biased view of the world.Įven if we ignore the price that we pay in the form of lost civility, professional immaturity, and a slew of other things, we are still left with a hefty cost: our own flow, i.e. And when you take away the thin veils of our shaky rationalizations that we’re defending everything from beauty and freedom to capitalism and craft, they reveal what we’re truly defending: ourselves. Under a critical lens, each of the above examples possesses one and only one objective truth, and they all have it in common: they’re defensive in nature. This applies even to the brightest among us. We are phenomenal at dressing our monster-driven opinions as fact, thanks to our ability to confabulate.īut in reality, we’re simply characters in an issue of Modern Jackass (as Ira Glass illustrated in an aptly titled episode of This American Life, A Little Bit of Knowledge): people taking a tiny smidgen of understanding and stretching it far past the breaking point. And therefore, Celine Dion sucks her supporters are perpetuating the demise of the music industry and I am doing the world a favor by telling them so. It’s not because I’m “being emotional.” No, really: her music is objectively bad, she has no talent, she doesn’t write her own songs, she is a narcissist, blah blah blah. That lady doesn’t make my heart go on-her name almost induces cardiac arrest. There’s a good chance that at least one of these examples made your pulse speed up and your face warm for a split second. The urge to send a snarky tweet (or worse, to write a rude blog post) when the CEO of a Fortune 500 company redesigns its logo over the weekend.The instantaneous feeling of disdain toward a company that we loved, just after they announce they’re going to start making revenue from advertising.The anger directed at an “uneducated” colleague who just gave us negative feedback on a design concept.Maybe these examples will hit closer to home? The propensity to fire off a hasty and nasty response to an email perceived as rude.The urge to chase down someone who cuts us off on the freeway. ![]()
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