Everyone go read Jump by @micsolana. Best thing I've read this year and it isn't close. Great framing of the multidimensional problem today. Reading reminded me about a thought exercise I once did.
How many emotions can you list. 7? 10?https://solana.substack.com/p/jump-23d06adb4cb7 …
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Our emotional vocabularies are limited. Tools like Mood Meter (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-mood-meter/id825930113 …, based on Yale research https://www.ycei.org/what-we-do ) are designed to help us expand that vocab. B/c the better we can describe thoughts/feelings/emotions, better we can better do this:pic.twitter.com/wH2FVqUBF2
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@AnnieDuke notes in TiB, we can’t actually get more out of this deliberative (thinking / emotion naming) side. And we need the more reflexive side (it’s what kept us from false negative, “prob not a tiger in the trees coming to eat" our ancestors). So...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
We need to work with the brains we got, and shift to deliberative from reflexive by being more aware of emotions/beliefs when interpreting new info. But of course it isn't easy and only a start. Jump highlights how complex the problem is beyond each of us individually.
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I don't have a well formed perspective on what Twitter / FB did yesterday. But I do think that this piece can help everyone understand their actions from a new perspective.
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i’m against what they did, but appreciate the broader problem. imo a tiny cabal of partisan fact checkers is not the answer.
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