SOCI 2275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jonathan Haidt, Emotional Contagion
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Focus on developing small habits, not making tough choices temptation somewhere easily. Elephant with the rider on its back (jonathan haidt) Focus on creating habits in support of your goals. Little environmental changes can have a big impact. Change the environment to make things you want easier to do and things. Intentional decision-making is exhausting, so too is consciously resisting the. Habits, it contrast, are almost free in terms of willpower. The elephant is strong, can work all day without tiring but can"t plan ahead might and strays off the path. The rider knows what needs to be done, but tires easily, when tired the elephant does what it wants. Moral: use strength to train the elephant, not control it. So, interact with people who are doing what you want. Functioning in society requires us to constantly submit our desires to social norms to balance our wants with those of others.
