half-baked: people play at all times the most fun game they know how to play. if you see someone doing something that looks ridiculously unfun to you assume it is because they literally don’t know how to play a more fun game than what they’re playing
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this includes assuming that you might not understand the ways in which the game they’re playing is fun to them
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people play the game of hatred because it’s fun, but they also play it because they don’t know how to play the game of love
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i forgot to spell out the rest of the logic: the implication here is that the way to change other people’s behavior is not by trying to argue them out of it but by visibly having more fun doing something else
may be the grand champion of this
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the most revolutionary idea in psychology is that everything people do is rational
and it is an uphill trench-to-trench battle to apply it in practice because we have been mocking every phenomenon we identify for so long
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I've had conversations with friends after assuming this and they are hard :)
It's hard to get people to try new things. I myself am reluctant to try new things in the same branches as other things I've tried and disliked, e.g. sports.
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I agree, and it's kind of sad
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I think people don't know how to fun.My sister is *really* fun &when she was hired at this new place a lot of people became obsessed with her because they were truly laughing for the 1st time in their lives learning from her.And she was not even fully unleashed
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I feel the same way about people not speaking their mind. They don't know how to
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Unironically a thing I care about a lot:
If you’re any age and your main circle isn’t discussing whatever is actually on their minds,
And is instead talking about stuff no one including them is truly cares about in or even entertained by,
Start asking better questions!
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Weird angle not sure how it relates--
In acting school, one of the requirements for choosing an "Action" (a short phrase describing what your character is pursuing from the other character onstage) was that it be "Fun."
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But here, "Fun" was specifically and explicitly defined as not just joyful, not just lighthearted, but something more like juicy. Alive, vibrant, "wakes you up in the gut."
ACTOR fun-- which is close to masochistic but not when done right-- makes you feel ALIVE.
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also "don't know how to play a more fun game" includes "don't know how to SAFELY play a more fun game"
even if there's a simple confusion that could be untangled to result in safety, "it hurt itself in its confusion" is a real thing!
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When you feel danger, you’re in danger. That’s it. Your system already has a knowing about this.
Your system is always taking action to protect you from a worse suffering.
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