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The Chamberlain Effect: Why We Make Bad Decisions, Even When We Know Better.
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Collective Behaviour
We sometimes make bad decisions, knowing fully well that they are not right.
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Mob Mentality
Mob mentality happens when people are in a group or a crowd, and seem to lose their rational thinking, changing their behavior and beliefs to suit the crowd.
Changed behavior in a crowd can also happen as a reaction to the behavior of people around and the general environment.
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Wrong But Socially Acceptable
Bad decisions may not be a result of beliefs or ignorance; they can also happen because we are not making a decision based on what's best for us (knowingly), but because of society, and peer pressure.
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When routines become a weakness
If you become very attached to your routines, when they get messed up, you get frustrated.
You feel what is almost like withdrawals and you start doubting yourself.
Routines and resistance
A routine means creating practices, habits and rules that force us to be better. Without it, resistance is given too much room to operate.
Routines are essential in the battle with doubt, chaos and laziness.
Discipline is a form of freedom
Left unsupervised, however, it becomes a form of tyranny.
The ability to rotate from routine to routine, discipline to discipline, according to the needs of the day and the moment is very important.
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How to Get Motivated
Develop a Routine. Create a series of events that you always perform before doing a specific task.
- Step 1: Start by doing something so easy that you can't say no to it.
Listening To New Music
- Around the age of 30-35, when people have settled into life, the music stops being something to experience, and more of something to remember.
- Listening to new music can be a ‘risk...
People Love Stuff They Already Know
People can get angry, even riotous when they are presented with something they don’t know or recognize.
Much before the phrase ‘confirmation bias’ became mainstream, most of us have been practising it in the things we like, be it clothing brands, beauty ideas or music. We all are trapped in the echo chambers where we love the things we know well, just because they are familiar, and therefore lovable.
Chemical Reaction: Music And Dopamine
A network of auditory cortex nerves (the corticofugal network) helps with the recognition and cataloguing of the different audio patterns.
If a pattern matches with a familiar one already in the brain, it releases dopamine, which is the main reason why (your favourite) music is so emotionally intense. Sounds are pleasurable because they match something already inside us.