Why We Do Things That Aren't in Our Best Interests

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 38

  • @lashropa
    @lashropa 9 лет назад +122

    This guy's ideas are way too relevant to go this under appreciated for this long. Take a look fellas, the human condition doesn't get any deeper or more practical than this.

    • @MrBeaux
      @MrBeaux 7 лет назад +5

      Agreed, there's a lot of BAD videos on Big Think that have a lot more views than this one here.

  • @sarahporter9979
    @sarahporter9979 7 лет назад +36

    Valid points. Also, I'm glad your liver has healed.

  • @frogg626
    @frogg626 7 лет назад +37

    4 years old and only 9,100 views? what? meanwhile youtube is pumping my feed full of "top 10 videos".
    I want more of these videos.

    • @patrikfrroku7215
      @patrikfrroku7215 3 года назад +1

      at least top 10 videos have lost popularity now..

  • @el-mehdibenchaib9950
    @el-mehdibenchaib9950 7 лет назад +8

    I like this theory of brain. We experience not out there but in our brain. Sometimes I think that my brain plays with me some tricks. I can't escape what I imagine. I start watching what my brain project in the slide show. What I can't do it in the outside, is possible in my imagination. Imagination is a power that makes us free and creative. We're not perfect, everything in human isn't perfect, our custom, education, politic, beliefs and other things. We struggle sometimes because what we take it as the truth for the others isn't the truth, and that comes from where did we receive information? And how do we interpret them?
    People always seek perfection, as an example in the matter of beliefs, it's all about in what do we believe? If we assume that our belief is perfect because we imagine it perfect or the process of information tells us that is so, without taking the struggle to prove it, here we make a big mistake. We need to put what we receive from information to the test, I can't believe in everything that I receive from the outside even what my brain shows me in the slide show. For that we always need to think observe and analyse things to understand and to go from the idea that we don't need to know all the answers, we n't live with approximate answers without being frightened, just being lost in this mysterious life. Thanks for this video; there're a lot of things to understand and to learn. Thank you Professor.

  • @Captain_Mulligan
    @Captain_Mulligan 8 лет назад +8

    Best argument against aperfectly free market I've heard in a while

  • @rodrigoniveyro9763
    @rodrigoniveyro9763 3 года назад +6

    hi everyone, so i have just finished "atomic habits", an aexcelent book. this technic is described in the book aswell with some more depth by the name of "habit stacking". its really insteresting to me to recongnise the limits of our consious power and think about the pitch we are playing in, which rules are dictated by our brain.

  • @klowen7778
    @klowen7778 3 года назад +1

    Spot on, thx! Though we shouldn't all take our 'choices' for granted either, like within a 'culture' of Poverty and constant uncertainty about 'Tomorrow', where oftentimes the *_only_* choice is whatever's _available,_ 'NOW'!

  • @henryzhao4622
    @henryzhao4622 Год назад

    Because each of us has a multiple of interests that fight each other, we have appetite and yet also pride and above that reason, and all of them fight each other

  • @Commutinyyyy
    @Commutinyyyy Год назад

    I succumbed to bad impulses about 4 times in my life and each time the repercussions were devastating...and the last two times might have destroyed my life forever, socially and medically.

  • @PurpleFlowers73
    @PurpleFlowers73 2 года назад +1

    Reward substitution. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @JediNg135
    @JediNg135 7 лет назад +18

    This video very relevant, is over 5 years old, has less than 5k views, and has only 3 (now four) comments? wtf

    • @HoD999x
      @HoD999x 7 лет назад

      maybe it's because of the guy's face. i see no difference to other videos with a lot more views

    • @JediNg135
      @JediNg135 7 лет назад +1

      Yes, that's the implication.

  • @jrbionic404
    @jrbionic404 7 лет назад +5

    One of the best videos I have ever seen

  • @edwardlyons6965
    @edwardlyons6965 Год назад +1

    I've only today discovered Mr Ariely. I will definitely be investigating more of his material.

    • @justmeagain7
      @justmeagain7 Год назад

      I discovered him on Coursera. His course is awesome

  • @allythearts5439
    @allythearts5439 Год назад

    Is it to see if we will like the thing or not. Like the phrase you never know until you try. Right ? I wouldn't eat something I'm allergic too I wouldn't put anything on my body I won't take well too. Doesn't a person need experiences in life to figure out who they are and what they truly like.

  • @MCr33py
    @MCr33py 7 лет назад +4

    Your videos are very interesting.

  • @aadityakiran_s
    @aadityakiran_s 3 года назад +1

    I've never texted and driven in my entire life. Mainly because I don't know how to drive so I ride a motorcycle and you can't text while on that.

  • @freemindsloveforever
    @freemindsloveforever 5 лет назад +3

    "Present focus bias"

  • @wamae755
    @wamae755 3 года назад +2

    For those whinning about the vaccine side effects,they should take notes from this man!!

    • @oliverholmes-gunning5372
      @oliverholmes-gunning5372 2 года назад +2

      Except that hepatitis is actually serious, and presumably the injections to cure it actually work. Oh, and no-one was forcing him to have it on pain of imprisonment/ostracization/losing his job. But yeah, other than that it's an identical scenario...

  • @carleynorthcoast1915
    @carleynorthcoast1915 7 лет назад +16

    you could fit everyone in this comment section in a minivan

  • @Mr28d23
    @Mr28d23 7 лет назад +1

    when i saw the thumbnail i thought this was sylvester stallone

  • @jjoepro
    @jjoepro 6 лет назад

    ok Dan Ariely

  • @hviettan
    @hviettan 3 года назад

    I think this is Dan Ariely
    and the description is wrong. Please revise, Big Think.

  • @NasirCrazyguy
    @NasirCrazyguy 4 года назад

    Damn.

  • @jjoepro
    @jjoepro 6 лет назад

    Whats his name,great vidio

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 Год назад

    We do indeed have a limited brain...this year. The first Neuralink human trials are starting...this year. Hahaha