In this last book *Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things,* the point was to basically examine how normal people come to believe some very strange things. And it turns out that stress is the condition that gets people to go down that path. - Dan Ariely
They're looking for an alternative theory with a villain and, ideally, a complex theory that could explain to them why they are where they are, and other people are where they are. Of course there are more elements to this. There's a cognitive, personality element, and a social element to this, but this initial element is stress. - Dan Ariely
One other thing that is very important is the stress we feel is a combination of the stress that we get minus the resilience. Because if I feel more resilience, I can handle stress. But if I can't, then the stress gets worse. And resilience is something that we're not doing well on these days. - Dan Ariely
Resilience as a super power to battle stress
Do things to increase resilience
Create opportunities to build resilience
Exercise the muscle
Conspiracy theories abound in a time of abundant stress.
Quite a read.
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely, Harper Publishing, 2023-Sept-19
https://misbeliefbook.com/
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