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Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Pavlovian Effects

Let's say there are heuristics of mind, we'll call them F1 heuristics. Imagine a driver riding in a F1 car and what exactly goes through his mind?
Well, to understand this question, we need to see a Green Blue Sea of ideas and mental models. The legendary Pacific Ocean Surfer Laird Hamilton has a kind of Cocktail Book club, what they call "Man Book Club", and in that club, people with practical experience, the street smarts come and recommend books (the word is Rick Rubin's a frequent contributor). The think I was wondering is that really, Are degrees the answer? I mean this question is vague. But if we think of one student as a single unit rather than part of a cohesive union, then it becomes clear what the advantages are. For Example, Finding Nemo fish is alone, well technically she's in a "pack of fish" but still, like Angry Bird, she finds herself alone. To explain this phenomenon, let us consider the mental model of "Niche" from biology, and that states when everyone is striving for a single goal as a single group, then due to overlapping effects, fights occur and competition goes up and chews up people like me, small people who don't matter and in the long run, people like Jake Paul get all the attention. That maybe explained due to the fact that people put too much attention to certain things and miss out others. That's Availability-Misweighing Tendency or Availability Heuristic. The Pavlovian effect of such big associations is that, like that boy from the new horror movie IT (2017) whose mother tricks him into thinking he has Asthma all along, this B.F. Skinner like association is used by parents to trick their children into believing as if as a result of certain stimulus, like fear, they may use actions like Asthma Breather to escape that situation. That's called conditioning. So like the Nemo, people are conditioned to associate release of instant hormones and an instant rise in blood pressure as they correlate fear of unknown with their careers. This is more like a negative Pavlovian effect. So in the end, the F1 car driver who's not just concerned about driving the car, but to secure his private position, like the Chinese guy from Fast Five in the last scene with Gal Gadot. Thanks to experiments of B.F. Skinner, we know that lonely endeavor of a great mission with love is the way to counter this Anchoring tendency of masses. For that to happen, we need to avoid phenomenons where such tendencies are in action on a massive scale, and for that, we need to be fast movers and quitters. I guess, some things in Life require you to better say no than to be negatively affected by Pavlovian effects. Better to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

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