ELoCs — External-locus-of-control people — are exhausting to be around. When down, they keep punching down harder and harder in a mean-spirited way, getting madder and madder. Only thing I know of that flips them to ‘nice’ is lining up a small skill-based win for them...
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In fact a great deal of societal/institutional design is devoted to ELoC management: making sure ELoC introverts have safe outlets so they don’t accumulate “Cold Revenge” energy, and ELoC extroverts have zones to act where chaosmaking is an asset, like entrepreneurship.
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Institutional failure is almost always ELoC containment failure. ELoC introverts connecting and blowing up. ELoC extroverts turning to crime or cult leadership (there’s a Baumol paper about the latter). We’re in a condition of near ELoC meltdown right now.
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I don’t have answers here yet, but I think this is the question next-gen institutional design (my current big interest) has to answer: How do we control and manage ELoC energy so it powers society steadily instead of blowing it up every decade.
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Baumol paper I mentioned: “Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive” https://www.jstor.org/stable/2937617?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/cLSX0oMfv1
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