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  • Our mind is conditioned to look for threats and issues, regardless of how safe or comfortable our environment is. The better things get, the more we nitpick on even the smallest of issues.
  • Our emotional reactions are not determined by the size of our problems. Our minds amplify our problems to fit the degree of stress we expect to experience. Success and material progress do not necessarily relax us or make us feel better about our future.

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Instinctive Decisions

Instinctive Decisions

  • We all make dozens of judgments every day, from deciding whether our clothes match to figuring out whether the dog down the street is a threat.
  • Our decision making and assessments are not based on any hard and fast rules. Most of them are instinctive & based on subconsci...

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The Blue Dot Experiment

The Blue Dot Experiment

  • For the experiment involved Researchers asking participants to identify “Blue” Dots from a series of a thousand Dots, colored blue & purple. Initially, the participants identified the color pretty accurately.

However, progressively researchers made sure the frequency of Blue dot...

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Overcoming the Blue Dot Effect

Overcoming the Blue Dot Effect

Most of us are leading more comfortable lives than we ever did. Yet, we are constantly griping with a sense of dissatisfaction.

We don’t seem satisfied in our present state of relative abundance (compared to our past).

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Perception

Perception

  • In further experiments, the researchers found the same effect when participants had to identify aggressive faces from a group that ranged from ‘very threatening’ to ‘not very threatening,’ and again when separating unethical research proposals from ethical ones.
  • Even when the occurre...

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They unload our minds from our constant decision making, and provide us with ways to relax.

We have a finite amount of energy for solving the daily problems, as our attention is a resource that can be exhausted, making decisions harder as the day goes by.

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