"When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail."

@IRLSuperb

7 ай бұрын

Exactly! This is why everything is racist or homophonic in 2023-24. Those offended people are so angry on a daily basis that they SEEK for the offense on everything and everyone. So much political divide over personal biases it’s ridiculous. It gets worse when companies and governments pray on this illogical thing by further convincing them they are good cuz they put a flag on a store and they must BUY their products to help. It’s just pure stupidity and evil

@tennispro9010

7 ай бұрын

Yes that’s a saying, no, that has literally nothing to do with this video

@beladendron

7 ай бұрын

@tennispro9010 as more people look for the blue, they see blue even where blue isn't. So they're solving the problem wrong because they have been conditioned to look only at things from one perspective. Yeah, it applies.

@declandougan7243

7 ай бұрын

@@beladendronIt applies in only the broadest sense to be honest.

@Register-co6ks

7 ай бұрын

​@@beladendron It didn't make the connection any more clean! Did you mean that you begin to apply the hammer to bolts and screws instead of nails? I'm a mess. What I just read looks like two independent phrases.

The thing is, if you are told by a person on authority that there is a threatening face to be found, and then you don’t find one, but you are reliably informed that there is one, you pick one that looks the most threatening out of the group. Even if, per se, you don’t think that the face truly is.

@James-sk4db

7 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s defo a candidate for the replicability crisis. “Which is blue” “Well that’s the most blue one” “Ha that was purple” “...”

@bodawei425

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, so it's more a halo effect. This is even more so if people around you do find some threatening faces: you will sync your behavior to theirs. We are social animals, we do want to belong to the group.

@michaplucinski142

7 ай бұрын

Exactly

@panzervpl9406

7 ай бұрын

As with blue dots, at first you get dots that are obviously blue but then the range of colors shrinks so you just pick the ones that look the most blue. It's not really possible to define what threatening looks like so people will pick the faces they think are most threatening even if there's not much difference.

@branditemple8954

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, i think if you redefined the perimeters and started asking people to pick out the blue dot 'if there is one' or aggressive face 'if there is one', you are gonna get different results....at least to the aggressive faces. The blue is a bit subjective and more subtle and can be a bit of a mind eff imo as i feel like lots of shades of purple look blue and can be defined as such depending on your definition. If anything I feel like the aggressive faces one may show how our mind may repath neuro-pathways over long periods in a controlled and forced short period...if all you see are aggressive faces....you might begin reading them everywhere, lol, even in the most of subtlest of facial expressions.... basically developing an over sensitivity to others micro expressions...idk! Just a theory on the fly....

I love these kind of shorts They warn you about a mental problem and leave you clueless about the solution

@commenteroftruth9790

3 ай бұрын

When your perspective is narrow, you lose sight of the infinite truth.

@FantasmagoriaAhoy

3 ай бұрын

​@@commenteroftruth9790Oh hush.

@swingtag1041

3 ай бұрын

Awareness is the solution. Once you know you're doing something, it's no longer a habit. It's a choice.

@commenteroftruth9790

3 ай бұрын

@@swingtag1041 bro are you a human being? You are not helpful, and that statement is incorrect. A habit remains a "habit" because you have done it for a long time. It is engrained in behavior, thought, perception, manerisms, etc. You are incorrect.

@nishitabs5228

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂me

make it your mission to find the 'money's hidden magic' ebook, even if it's the last thing you ever do

Yup. Didn't know what that was called, but my therapist basically told me that's what was happening to me. I've felt like I was in danger for the vast majority of my life, and now that I'm safe, my brain just makes up reasons why I'm actually not safe.

@governmentname4088

7 ай бұрын

Yo, I think you just explained how I recently became germaphobic 🤯 thank you man

@tink6225

7 ай бұрын

common trauma response. currently struggling with this

@JohnGlen502

7 ай бұрын

Read about Vagus Nerve this part of the brain can be calmed.@morgan2338

@yourlotusflower4414

7 ай бұрын

I still don’t feel safe either did he give you a solution to practice?

@jennyanderson4796

7 ай бұрын

​@@yourlotusflower4414get beyond .... go through the river of change , its uncomfortable . thoughts & feelings hold us back they need to change . reprogram ..rewire this is from dr. joe dispenza

“If you look for something hard enough, you will convince yourself that you have found it” Applies perfectly.

@daniellecailly5448

5 ай бұрын

yes called "Confirmation bias " .

@Salamaleikum80

5 ай бұрын

the only problem i have with this is that it doesn't make it easier to rule out actual correct findings. Like for example when doctors found eosinophile eosophagitis, or any kind of disease. They did look really hard.

@dovos8572

5 ай бұрын

that is why docs get other docs that haven't seen the image yet to confirm that they actually found something.

@ellea3344

5 ай бұрын

And the factor at play here is... bias.

I learned that people who have anxiety will always find something to be anxious about

@kimberlys.7097

2 ай бұрын

Gosh so right!!

@yvonnes7412

2 ай бұрын

Yes and the flipside is true too… when going through Exposure Response Therapy, the body experiences less anxiety over time, which then influences emotions and thoughts to be less anxious…

@akiraic

Ай бұрын

my ex is a blue dot now. I'm fucked

@akhtar7574

29 күн бұрын

That's me

@eridanusii268

10 күн бұрын

Everyone has anxiety sometimes....its literally a natural stress response......

This is exactly why you experience diminishing returns with anything you put too much time into. This is why if you have a hobby such as music, or skateboarding and other things that involve developing skills more practice can be more harmful to your progress than just small sessions. You overstimulate yourself until you start working backwards. If you're ever frustrated or feel like you aren't getting anywhere with something sometimes it's important to remember that sometimes doing nothing is the solution. I recommend practicing anything that you do for around 15-30 minutes with 15 minute mental breaks in-between each session. And in general if it's something you feel like doing every single day it's important to get a good night's sleep so your brain can actually store all of that memory and your effort won't be wasted. You can achieve more with far less 💯🔥

This seems more like the "if you ask someone to find something and they can't they'll pick the closest thing" effect

@laelfoo2285

7 ай бұрын

True but also a “people can’t move on” effect, leaving you to believe there is always a problem

@somerobloxdude3699

7 ай бұрын

^ This reply is confusing me

@ToastallyManonMcMarrington

7 ай бұрын

​@@laelfoo2285Specify what does that mean???

@ibuprofriends

7 ай бұрын

@@ToastallyManonMcMarrington ​​⁠instead of stopping and admitting “i dont see anymore threatening faces” people started fabricating them. in other words; creating a problem where there is none rather than just letting it go.

@meiyosei78

7 ай бұрын

Is this what happened every time I took the math tests?

the more self help content I consume the more I'm convinced that not trying is the best personal development tool Edit: some people took this to mean being nihilistic and lying in bed all day. But my comment was more along the lines of Wu Wei.

@cheddarcheez9606

7 ай бұрын

aka not giving a f

@heidi_homsestol2728

7 ай бұрын

Yeah you can do everything to feel good, workout, wake up early, get all the work done that you need to do, meditate and you will feel amazing… But if you doing all that comes from a place of “im not good enough, i need to better myself” It doesn’t fix the fundamental issue of you attaching your self worth to these “external” factors. Julien blanc has a nice analogy for this: That you “your body and skills” are like a video game character. You can upgrade skills: workout, charisma etc. But when you get of that game and sit alone, what are left with? And this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t workout and be social etc. But it should come from a happy place, like hey i would love to learn this new skill that seems cool, Instead of: aah I didn’t do this and that, and that other guy is way better than me, i need to do this so I feel good again and be better than him. And out of experience, the past few months I went full “david goggins” mode, woke up at 5am went for a run in the cold rain, then school, workout, study, meditate, sleep. And like damn….. I looked in the mirror and felt like a fucking beast. But a little while ago, i got sick and it stuck for like 2 weeks. I got of the “goggins mode”, and felt awful, fucking terrible, worse that before. And now Im doing my exams and only have time for studying although that’s a lie, because i can workout here and there and go for a run. But i lost the motivation because i know now that doing all that from the mindset of “im not good enough” is wrong, and that is the only reason i do it. Like i hate waking up early, and running and studying i would rather play videogames with the boys. Although when i do that i also don’t feel good about my self. Fuck This was a lot and I’m still learning to adapt to this… yeah what do you call it? Lifestyle? And I’m not sure if I fully understand

@mountainair

7 ай бұрын

Nailed it

@flamingodoodles627

7 ай бұрын

​@@heidi_homsestol2728not reading all that

@user-zv6rx7pm9m

7 ай бұрын

Yup, nailed it!

This "study" (air quoted by the fact that the researchers forced them to choose criminal faces everytime) actually showed us the effect of confirmation bias, if they're told that something is wrong, they'll try to finr something that's wrong. This is why courtrooms must always tell the witnesses "There's also a chance that none of the suspects shown here are criminals" because justice is not served by a lazy courtroom, it's served by a just courtroom

@__thebadger

8 күн бұрын

No one was forced. They could have simply not answered and been wrong. I think you're a perfect example of this phenomenon. You're trying to seek out victimhood by proxy without any information on how the study went. Asking people to identify criminals would only be a bad thing in a world with no criminals. We're in 2024, there are too many criminals. Nothing here was offensive. You simply want to be offended.

@__thebadger

6 күн бұрын

@WmRussell1972 not sure where I expressed any feeling of upset, but not the first comment where you are making things up. You are aware the lithium is a brain numbing drug that suppresses feelings and independent thought, right? Not a surprise that someone like you would encourage use of such drugs. As far as your comment goes, I don't know what you're arguing. I never said facial recognition is perfect. I simply stated that they were not forced to identify anyone. They could have said "I don't know and I don't feel comfortable pointing someone out on little information." Very easy. Doesn't mean that we can't do better. Just means that the study did not go the way that you're assuming.

@__thebadger

5 күн бұрын

@WmRussell1972 seen you're other comments. You're an npc.

@WmRussell1972

5 күн бұрын

@@__thebadger You're still not being specific. I don't expect anything more, I suppose. Thanks for playing in my "npc" world for a moment.

It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

@katinkafrauke2148

Ай бұрын

Don't procrastinate when it comes to saving and investing. Don't wait for the perfect timing; start now because the current moment is the best time to invest.

@Patrick-xt7bm

Ай бұрын

What specific type of investment are you referring to? I'm aware that making money through investing is not as straightforward as it may appear.

It sounds like a fatigue response. As work becomes more monotonous, accuracy tends to suffer. It's why task switching and mental breaks are important. You can become so familiar with something that you can't see it anymore, and you're less likely to notice subtle differences or minor mistakes or discrepancies.

@ArabTV69

7 ай бұрын

I think the answer to this is most likely expectations. Say you're given a sheet with 50 coloured circles and you identify 15 of them to be blue. You are given another sheet with another 50 circles, you will naturally, unconsciously expect and seek the same number of blue circles as before due to you prior experience. It is because you're expecting this that you start selecting colours that closely resemble blue or as close as you can get to blue so that you meet your expected quota. I believe this is called expectation bias.

@vafasadrif12

7 ай бұрын

That's why i tell people that you're not supposed to study 10 hours a day and they still keep telling me to do it

@mau3785

7 ай бұрын

@@vafasadrif12You can study 10 hours a day, you just need to take a lot of breaks and start very early so you have the time for those breaks. 10 hours is a lot though, so doing this daily might be too much

@arthur1596

7 ай бұрын

I thought you said mental breakdown

@arthur1596

7 ай бұрын

The older we get, the more industrious we become? If so then that answers itself above the condition that quality degenerates

This makes so much sense bc your brain becomes used to certain circumstances! It’s why when you leave an incredibly toxic situation, your brain has trouble being in the healthy situation bc your brain has formed all the pathways to survive the toxic situation that it doesn’t know what to do in the healthy situation

@hey_thatsmyname

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm just over a year out of a 10 year, highly toxic work environment, and I still routinely horrify normally functioning people with how my brain works. I get a lot of "what the fuck did they do to you there."

@feelingsarevoid

6 ай бұрын

Omg this is so sad

@elizabethweigle6146

6 ай бұрын

@@hey_thatsmyname I completely understand. I lasted two months in a toxic work environment before I had to leave and I got similar comments at the next job. One of my coworkers asked why I looked terrified every time a manager came to talk to me, even if it was a “hello how are you today?” But I’m so glad that you were able to leave your old job and get a new job that is much better for you. I wish you all the best

@cassiopeia_mori

6 ай бұрын

yeah, i’ve been experiencing this lately. for years i was in a HORRID friendship that would cause me physical pain and reactions from the stress. about a year ago, we stopped talking to each other, and i met someone else. it gives me such fucking whiplash to do something that would normally get me screamed at and ghosted for hours, only for him to give me a calm and gentle reaction. your brain gets so used to the hurt that anything else seems like a mercy.

@adityabaghel69

6 ай бұрын

Pk​@@hey_thatsmyname

That’s why gratitude journals are so important!! Get away from the negativity! Makes total sense

@vincentbarnett4222

4 ай бұрын

Gratitude journals only work if you can find something to be grateful for. Some people find that extraordinarily difficult or impossible to do. Escaping negativity is only possible if the negativity does not live inside you. Some people had that negativity beaten (sometimes literally) into them since birth. Um, speaking for a friend. Yeah. A friend...

@julia-qm2td

3 ай бұрын

Wholeheartedly agree

@Dkthearn

3 ай бұрын

​@@vincentbarnett4222 speaking from experience so many told me that those you get the more you're troubled past becomes just that the past

@alenaadamkova7617

2 ай бұрын

He created his emotional flexibility and open minded personality....The tv and media profit from making you emotionally selflimited...saying never show emotion, while the most flexible people express all kinds of emotions in order to chose later the best emotions that fit their needs and personality, so they dont have to use the selflimited emotions...because they chosed to use the selflimited emotions few times to understand how thye feel and later chose thge ones that feel the best.

That's how phobias are born. Always being fearful and constantly thinking about it.

This is "when you deal in hammers, every problem looks like a nail" defined

@user-cl5fk5en8l

7 ай бұрын

i read alot of comments this is the only one defines it perfectly! thanks

@mysty0

7 ай бұрын

Just wrote this above, nailed it

@itsyoboigucci7578

5 ай бұрын

Hammers can also break walls, people faces and lot of other stuffs.. they arent only used for nails.

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

They asked volunteers to identify blue dots on a screen among blue and purple ones. As the experiment progressed, they reduced the number of blue dots on the screen and replaced them with various shades of purple. However, the shocking result was that volunteers started calling purple dots as blue. Even when warned about the increase in purple dots and offered money not to do so, they still made the same mistake. Their vision had been distorted.

I want a full video on this topic.

@singhfamily31

7 ай бұрын

You and the rest of us! I hate how the videos stop mid thought 💭… Let me just describe how Irritating it is: …

@___idk

7 ай бұрын

yh

@timmyroberts1

7 ай бұрын

Yep, a good example of a bad short

@Chemillioneer

7 ай бұрын

Everyone should make like 3B1B and always link a longer video on the topic. He says he expects this helps not just curious people, but also people who have been scrolling for long, and need an easy exit into something more satisfying, like learning about a new topic.

@trishlakaushik

7 ай бұрын

You can read his book "everything is fucked" he explained it really nicely in last second or probably last chapter.

My first thought was.... how did they relay the request? If they said "find the..." then the average person will assume at least one exists even if they don't see it. They will then choose what they think is closest. So unless we have the details of the actual instruction at the time we do not, can not accept the results.

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

We most definitely do. It's just that a YT short is not going to get into research methodology.

@anonymousapproximation8549

3 ай бұрын

​@@kubaGR8You can most definitely quote how they relayed the request within the timeframe of a short.

You are making progress! You are growing stronger and wiser each day. You are ought to not give up. Keep pushing. Live to fight another day ❤🎉

This is why we do things like take breaks and self care. Sometimes you need to step away from problems and stressors and revisit them when you’re rested and secure. Then you suddenly have an answer and was wondering why you spent 2 hours or a month struggling with something a good nights rest and relaxation could have solved.

@bodawei425

7 ай бұрын

So true

@shen4379

7 ай бұрын

Definitely. In school, there’s been times where I just couldn’t seem to figure out a question and would spend so much time trying to get it. However, when I took a break or looked back on that very question at a later time, it was far more clear to me than before.

When I was young, my father always use to say, "A Hammer only see nails.". If you're focused on finding/see something. You're likely to find it. Even if it's not really there. . . A Cop sees criminals. A Nurse sees patients. A soldier sees targets. Even if there's none to see.

@_lost-rx4eb

6 ай бұрын

Fuck I want to find friends and ended in fu king enemies you damm right:what a fuck

@bffentertainment7848

5 ай бұрын

An atheist cannot see God. It's very sad but true.

@bffentertainment7848

5 ай бұрын

Like an atheist who cannot/will not/canNOT see God. I don't understand the mystery but it's like they're just *not able to. It's really weird, as if they're limp -not able/unable to fully walk using even rhythmic strides. Like a colorblind person just cannot see accurate colors. It's a thing with them. I've tirelessly talked and argued with many atheists. They're VEEEERY frustrating to talk to, as it's impossible to get them to see what's absolutely clear and obvious to me and a whole room full of people. It's crazy!

@lolsteelz

5 ай бұрын

@@bffentertainment7848 . . I don't know what that has to do with this. . . Butttt neither do sane people?

@bffentertainment7848

5 ай бұрын

@@lolsteelz Not literally see. 🙄😑 That's the kind of linear narrow thinking that I'm referring to. For example it's impossible for me to not "see" the "hand" of G❤️D in the marvel of the human body, or the complex and interdependent eco systems of our planet. I also plainly see the corruption of evil being imposed on these beauties when things go wrong. Even though eyes fail to "see" or words fail to describe the obvious, the mechanisms that make up the whole are still there.

All this study shows is that if a researcher asks you to look for something, most people will just say the closest thing rather than feel embarrassed. That's it.

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

"In a set of experiments led by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, and his student David Levari, researchers found that when a problem becomes less common, people tend to broaden their definition of the problem. They asked volunteers to identify blue dots on a screen among blue and purple ones. As the experiment progressed, they reduced the number of blue dots on the screen and replaced them with various shades of purple. However, the shocking result was that volunteers started calling purple dots as blue. Even when warned about the increase in purple dots and offered money not to do so, they still made the same mistake. Their vision had been distorted."

@DanOC1991

3 ай бұрын

"their vision had been distorted" is way too big of a leap to make from this experiment, there's no way the paper said that. That's just your usual science journalism hype. Even if it were true, there's no justification to make the leap to "and that's why you can't stop focusing on problems" like the guy in this video does

@anonymousapproximation8549

3 ай бұрын

​@@kubaGR8 using "vision" rather than "perception' makes me think negatively of these people.

I recently discovered something that kind of relates to this. Ive been going through a really really hard time in my life recently and I spent all of my time trying to fix the problem I was going through. However, I discovered that when you are constantly thinking of a way to solve a problem, it keeps that problem alive. Sometimes the best course of action is to just let time do its thing and try to live life in the present.

Dude just saying “that’s why-“ at the end of a short doesn’t lead to a good loop, it didn’t even make sense with what you were saying at the start 😭

@joelvannatta3266

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it just reeks of low effort content.

@tysonthornton1126

5 ай бұрын

I came down here to comment this, thank you kind sir.

@saatana6

5 ай бұрын

Lmfao funny af

@DocentPro-SF

5 ай бұрын

I guess this is how he got so many likes as ppl played it several times to understand it hah!

@dawnimatrix

4 ай бұрын

Right! Is there a part two? I feel like he didn’t finish his sentence!

This explains a lot for me. I never feel like I'm getting better with my mental health even though I've been working hard to take care of myself, but my friends and family have told me that they've seen positive changes. So interesting.

@JohnGlen502

7 ай бұрын

Read about Vagus Nerve.

@blanky7064

7 ай бұрын

@@JohnGlen502 not really sure what the vagus nerve would have to do with this

@JohnGlen502

7 ай бұрын

You need to calm the nervous system down to a state of deep relaxation.@@blanky7064

@amanlagadia2650

7 ай бұрын

​@@JohnGlen502what's vagus nerve

@JohnGlen502

7 ай бұрын

It's a huge nerve that runs from the brain and connects and controls important bodily functions. It should fully reduce your fight or flight response after engagement. If it doesn't you remain in a state of anxiety that talk therapy won't alleviate. There are simple exercises on KZread that will calm your nervous system and fully relax you.@@amanlagadia2650

Damn, you cannot imagine how much this was the time for me to see the video, thanks

I love the editing in these videos. So smooth.

“You can’t have problems if you don’t care” -Sun Tzu

@tobiasfunke8967

6 ай бұрын

- Drip_Goku69420

@jessicakitteh

5 ай бұрын

In real life that doesn't work

@frivolousgamer9047

5 ай бұрын

What we miss regularly, is to look at background of people who we’re quoting, compare his life to a simple plumber in a poor hood, in his case, oh surely 😂

@bopparino

5 ай бұрын

@@jessicakittehit’s true, the secret is to not have expectations, to not care what happens.

@jessicakitteh

5 ай бұрын

@@bopparino at that point you are a rock and life is meaningless. Which is why Buddhists are known to kill them selves so sure if you don't care about your life and want to chose poor coping mechanisms ig go ahead but i would strongly advise that you didn't bc its not worth it

*You see what you are looking for.*

@mysty0

7 ай бұрын

When you only have a hammer everything becomes a nail

@gobzanuff5078

7 ай бұрын

Selective -hearing- sight

@mysty0

7 ай бұрын

@@gobzanuff5078 its not selective sight when fingers look like nails lmao

This explains a lot. Thanks.

So basically when you have less and less problems, your brain makes up new problems 😂

That's why. And then it stops, WHY?! We demand a full version.

@shinninglightministry7050

7 ай бұрын

IKR!!! WE NEED A SOLUTION!!!

@e-guy8259

7 ай бұрын

Pft. It's so simple everyone. I have the answer to life and all of your problems, it's

@martywilsonlife

7 ай бұрын

​@@e-guy8259, well played, well played.

@sebastiaanstok

7 ай бұрын

Found the long explanation somewhere else, it relates to Mark's second book; We all make dozens of judgments every day, from deciding whether our clothes match to figuring out whether the dog down the street is a threat. Our decision making and assessments are not based on any hard and fast rules. Most of them are instinctive based on some subconscious triggers. This weekend, I got an insight into our decision making biases when I came across an interesting psychology experiment that Researchers at Harvard University conducted. The experiment involved Researchers asking participants to identify “Blue” Dots from a series of a thousand Dots ranging in color from very blue to very purple. These Dots would flash on a computer screen one after the other. Initially, for Dots shown on the screen, the participants identified the color pretty accurately. Roughly half of the dots were blue, and half were purple. However, progressively researchers made sure the frequency of Blue dots reduced dramatically. Strangely, the participants reacted by selecting as Blue Dots those that were shades of purple- their classification of Blue expanded in proportion to the decrease in the Blue Dots on the screen. In essence, as the occurrence of blue dots decreased, the definition of blue expanded. Prevalence affected the judgment of the respondents. The researchers termed this phenomenon “prevalence-induced concept change.” In further experiments, the researchers found the same effect when participants had to identify aggressive faces from a group that ranged from ‘very threatening’ to ‘not very threatening,’ and again when separating unethical research proposals from ethical ones. Even when the occurrence of “problems” (threatening faces/unethical proposals) went down, participants began to misread friendly and neutral faces as threatening and ethical proposals as fraudulent. The Blue Dot effect suggests that our mind is conditioned to look for threats and issues, regardless of how safe or comfortable our environment is. The better things get, the more we nitpick on even the smallest of issues. The size of the problem does not determine our emotional reactions to our problems. Instead, our minds simply amplify our problems to fit the degree of stress we expect to experience. Success and material progress do not necessarily relax us or make us feel better about our future. There are many examples of this. In the pre-Uber/Grab days, we were willing to wait for 30 min for a taxi to come. Today we complain if there is a delay of even 5 min. Wifi speed was a fraction of what we experience today. Yet, we quibble and complain that the Wifi is slow if a page load takes a few seconds more than usual. In the days of snail mail, we were willing to wait for a response for 30 days. Today with email, we complain if we don’t get a response in a few hours. Convenience has improved but satisfaction has not. A decade back, someone was living in a small apartment and very contented. Today, the same family lives in a Villa with a much higher living standard and feels less satisfied than before. The Blue Dot Effect, in many ways, represents our predicament. Most of us are leading more comfortable lives than we ever did. Yet, we are constantly griping with a sense of dissatisfaction. We don’t seem satisfied in our present state of relative abundance( compared to our past). This is the Blue Dot Effect playing out in our lives. We are amplifying the negatives and glossing out the positives, out of past conditioning. Recognize this and ease up. Our life if good and the world is not so bad, after all !! -- Ownmygrowth.com (for reference)

@Abstract.x

7 ай бұрын

​@@sebastiaanstokthank you so much for putting this here ❤

By removing the faces they had to identify, it seemed like you set up a situation where they had to make a random guess whether they actually thought it was the answer or not.

@hereandnow3156

7 ай бұрын

I thought this might be an issue with the experiment but apparently even when they were told the number of blue dots was decreasing they still misidentified them.

@josjos-x5s

7 ай бұрын

​@hereandnow3156 that doesn't change the fact you are still looking for a blue dot, just one that's way more subtle.

@hereandnow3156

7 ай бұрын

@@josjos-x5s Well it'd be easier to talk about this if I could find the study but apparently it's quite sensational considering I have only found articles talking about the study which makes it hard to know what exactly the parameters were.

@josjos-x5s

7 ай бұрын

@@hereandnow3156 I think that just makes me think its even more bs. Like the way the study is talked about is that the blue spot becomes less obvious with every iteration. And ye of course people are just going to try and find the closest blue dot, thats what they are being told to do. Its like even if this study was true, its nothing deep. Like ye sometimes humans make presumptions or false equivalences. It really isn't that deep.

@WesleyFiles

7 ай бұрын

​@@josjos-x5sthings that click instantly for you are elusive for others. We experience life in different ways.

This explains so much

Wow! Great insight! Subbed!

It seems to me it’s just because they were primed with the idea that there were blue dots, threatening faces, unethical job proposals, etc. if they’re told to find these things, they’re going to assume those things are there, and pick the closest ones they can to fit the bill out of ever decreasing options

@mostafaokasha9944

7 ай бұрын

most underrated comment imo

@SCIENTIFICBLACKPILL

7 ай бұрын

Exactly, I'm pretty sure this effect is real and affects us to some degree but not to the extent people are claiming. Like you said the main problem is their intellectual model they have in their mind that expect blue dots once that's fixed then they will slowly adjust to the real results.

@teralynl4285

7 ай бұрын

It's like Easter egg hunting... To simplify it. You're told to go find that golden egg, right? So you're looking for it, any sign of it. I see what their experiment is demonstrating but maybe it was just a statement of what's obvious and not some giant discovery. If you take my blue dots away but you've got me looking for blue dots... That's a lot of time spent on research but necessary in order to be able to point to facts, I guess. Just in case anybody wanted to argue that it's not a real thing. Now, did they do the experiment backwards though? Did they take us into utopia with it?

@patrickkeller2193

7 ай бұрын

That's exactly the point. If people look for something really hard, they will find it, even if it's not actually there. The problem is this primer doesn't have to be external.

@dimitri0404

7 ай бұрын

Exactly, it wasn't their mind telling them there was a blue dot, it was the researchers. And if they HAVE to choose one, they will. It's just an experiment anyways. It's not like the threatening looking person will go to prison if chosen. Based on the information given this smells like a biased experiment. What would have needed to happen for them to not come to that conclusion? Was there an option to say: "none of them are blue."

This is how my ocd works It constantly finds new versions of my obsessions and compulsions once I sort out the current ones

@rolledoats9427

7 ай бұрын

Fellow ocd sufferer here and you're right on. It's like it just sits and waits for something new to grab onto, all the time. Opportunistic illness.

@gageduke7652

7 ай бұрын

To me it feels like the anxiety has to exist whether it has a reason to or not.

@GrimRplayZzYT

4 ай бұрын

I've never felt a yt comment to be more truer than this 😢

This is why I ask myself "Is this a Blessing?" and I see blessings more and more...

This makes total sense, I’ve been dealing with extreme anxiety due to being a bit too paranoid about my health that I don’t even know what’s really happening and what’s caused by my mind.

As an artist, the blue dot thing is just a part of how our brain interprets information based on context… colors can look like other colors based on the general shade they are surrounded by. For example, a medium grey looks pretty light compared to pitch black, and it looks pretty dark compared to pure white. It’s really all about context. When everything is one way, it makes the things that aren’t quite the same to look waay out of place and different

@aiocafea

6 ай бұрын

in that same vein, i can vaguely remember an experiment that showed how people can project feelings upon facial expressions based on context rather than appearance i think the blue dot effect is still real, it's not just that our senses can perceive things differently based on context, but the context of a mission can push you to continue to 'find' the blue dot even if you wouldn't have said there is one at the beginning

@barrowfull-qs2dk

6 ай бұрын

What about colour blind tests? Isn't there loads of context there too?

@presto_the_editor

6 ай бұрын

@@aiocafea yeah I agree... Context skews things a lot... The blue dot effect does mix with the context thing a bunch

@presto_the_editor

6 ай бұрын

@@barrowfull-qs2dk well yeah, there is

@TYsdrawkcaB

6 ай бұрын

also, what is blue and isn’t purple is COMPLETELY ARBITRARY AND NOT AT ALL BASED IN FACT.

"The Blue Dot effect suggests we look for threats and issues regardless of the safety or comfort of our environment. We are conditioned to look for the negative and the mind has a tendency toward finding problems, even where none exist. The Blue Dot Effect suggests that we are hard-wired for pessimism. We tend to overlook continual progress for the latest negative news, forgetting that we’ll almost certainly have better tools and ideas tomorrow than we do today. In other words, the better our lives get, the pettier our grievances become. Solution: The practice of gratitude provides a framework for examining goodness. Take the time to appreciate how your life is better, or how much better it is than it was for those who came before us. Beauty can be found anywhere when you are open to receiving it. A well-lived life isn’t about eliminating problems but creating better problems. Today I’m taking time to appreciate new and better problems." clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/

@vimalvarghese7272

7 ай бұрын

Mvp right here

@UserHandle454

7 ай бұрын

Of course the experiment was to FIND the threatening faces , they didn't have a choice they couldn't just say none of them look threatening,so the looked for the faces with the most "dangerous" face in a series of friendly faces, unless they could say they weren't any ?,

@WEEZYWEEEE

7 ай бұрын

fax!

@nataliaturner4845

7 ай бұрын

​@TheInvisibleBlade you make a good point about being conditioned by the experiment.

@greyfox4838

7 ай бұрын

This is why even if we reach utopia, there will still be politicians fear mongering the people and convincing them we need changes and that things were better in the past. Our brains are hardwired to find problems even if there's nothing to fix. One example is people in safe cities that keep voting for politicians that want to increase police presence, New York City for a recent example.

The edit is fire.

Seems really similar to gratitude exercises to reframe things in a positive light. If you look for look for something youll usually find it

This is how anxiety and rumination works. The more you worry about something the bigger and scarier it seems in your mind.

The temporality of the experiment is not the determining factor. The determining factor is the orientation of focus. The group is aware that they are to look for threatening faces. As the pool of those faces minimise there besets an imbalance as the orientation (goal) of the focus does not parallel the presented angry faces. The consequences are thus worse than presented in the video. The experiment suggests that there is an morphological element to such things as state of mind and expectation

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

They asked volunteers to identify blue dots on a screen among blue and purple ones. As the experiment progressed, they reduced the number of blue dots on the screen and replaced them with various shades of purple. However, the shocking result was that volunteers started calling purple dots as blue. Even when warned about the increase in purple dots and offered money not to do so, they still made the same mistake. Their vision had been distorted.

That’s why it’s important to reflect on a periodic basis and write down your goals / what you have achieved - especially in jobs for promotions. Keeping tabs over time and working with a mentor who can really frame the big picture of your development can really help!

I don't like the video loop effect but understand its value, you or your editor did a good job making it almost seamless.

It's Lord Of The Flies. When no enemy exists, we create one.

@craighalpin1917

6 ай бұрын

🪨 🐖

This is how anxiety feels. I get so wrapped up that I genuinely can’t just think of the situation logically, because it’s pretty easy to spin a logical explanation when ur brain is looking to justify a certain bias

"That's why..." Aw dude, don't leave me hanging

I like how this ends with “that’s why…”

I mean, this would be important: did the researchers tell them that "None present" was an option? If they told them they HAVE to find blue dots or threatening faces and there simply were none, they might have just picked the closest present since we as humans try to complete tasks presented based on the context. Could have just been not enough context

@dionysusnow

7 ай бұрын

What if they tell you something like "racism is always there."

@rene3759

7 ай бұрын

what if they tell you racism doesnt exist@@dionysusnow

@willguggn2

7 ай бұрын

@@dionysusnow You look at the research and find out that it's sadly factual.

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

They asked volunteers to identify blue dots on a screen among blue and purple ones. As the experiment progressed, they reduced the number of blue dots on the screen and replaced them with various shades of purple. However, the shocking result was that volunteers started calling purple dots as blue. Even when warned about the increase in purple dots and offered money not to do so, they still made the same mistake. Their vision had been distorted.

So true. I discovered that myself having been in the recession of 2008 constantly looking for a job all through 2009 and part of 10. Now I still constantly have the need to look for job. Can't shake it.😊

@ankavoskuilen1725

5 ай бұрын

The need will fade away.

@bharatkakwani5098

4 ай бұрын

Damn that was me with house hunting in Toronto, i still randomly open marketplace to find a 1 bedroom sometimes lol

This reminds me of being at laundry mat I got told I'm scary because I kept a smile on my face and trying to be helpful 😅

The one last short😢

This short is edited beautifully! Well done

the weird thing about this is that it treats things like "threatening faces" as something objective. even different cultures have different ideas of what a threatening or angry expression is. even something like identifying a color is not really objective, and some shades might be considered blue by some people and not others.

@wakelamp

7 ай бұрын

Agree. They also primed the people saying spot the threatening ones.

@imaginaryuniverse632

6 ай бұрын

The exercises are showing that all things are subjective. Bluey is in the eye of the beholder. Seek and ye shall find. 🙂

@seesaweffect8095

6 ай бұрын

@@imaginaryuniverse632 but the conclusion that the video comes to takes it for granted that there are right and wrong answers and asks "why did they pick the wrong answers"

@LogOffAlready

6 ай бұрын

While the issue you've pointed out is important, it should be noted that the people experimented on were presumably from the surrounding Harvard area and could be relied upon to have a similar culture. Additionally, they repeated this with other factors, such as language, groups, and writing.

@jacoposinigaglia8932

6 ай бұрын

Nah, the point is that everybody's internal definition of "blue" (threatening, etc) widens as they spend time spotting that feature

"don't get so distracted Fighting the alligator that you forget to clean the swamp"

people are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone

this helped me not dwell on conflicts as much. I tend to overthink every side and lose the reality of the situation

They primed testers to find a higher number of blue dots/threatening faces. Without telling the test subjects outright they told them to find a high number and people adapted their criteria of blue/threatening to fill that goal. Redo it in reverse or staring at the low number and see how it changes

@kubaGR8

3 ай бұрын

"In a set of experiments led by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, and his student David Levari, researchers found that when a problem becomes less common, people tend to broaden their definition of the problem. They asked volunteers to identify blue dots on a screen among blue and purple ones. As the experiment progressed, they reduced the number of blue dots on the screen and replaced them with various shades of purple. However, the shocking result was that volunteers started calling purple dots as blue. Even when warned about the increase in purple dots and offered money not to do so, they still made the same mistake. Their vision had been distorted."

@anonymousapproximation8549

3 ай бұрын

​@@kubaGR8 They found that when people think that there is a problem (such as when being informed about there being a problem), people will look for the problem.

@dummybugstudios6450

3 ай бұрын

well yeah, ofc it would behave differently the other way around. It's showing that as something becomes less common, we will start hallucinating it in places it isn't there.

I concur with most of those, and hope to learn the rest

oh gee, good thing that as a programmer all of the issues in the program can be precisely specified, and checked for of they still persist

Just finished your subtle art of not giving a f*ck.thank you mark.i was struggling with high level of deppression for last 6 years.your book saved me from commiting sucide. Love from iran❤

@kellyr3816

7 ай бұрын

Proud of you for fighting! ❤

@DeeVamp

7 ай бұрын

So happpy for you dadash, well done ❤

@QuantumSqueeb

7 ай бұрын

Glad you’re alive. You may not know it but you being alive gives me hope. Keep shining

@Satsui_No_Hado

7 ай бұрын

Heck yeah brother 👊 or sister 👊 anyone that fights that fight, You're a fucking badass remember it

@srtfrostbite

7 ай бұрын

So proud of you Yousef jan. Hope you have a great journey ahead of you, full of wonder, happiness and fulfilments.

I’m here found that when you shine a light on a problem it lessens the pain,to the point that when you discuss it, it doesn’t feel like it happens to you. Let go of trauma.

@ajk9420

7 ай бұрын

You literally said the opposite of what you’re supposed to do if you believe in the Blue Dot Effect. The more that one focuses on or recalls the trauma, the more the trauma-related reminders will seem to pop up in their daily life. Now trauma and human psychology is complex, but if you were to base it on blue dot effect then you’re supposed to not talk about trauma.

@channelpolitica1364

7 ай бұрын

@@ajk9420That is not what the Blue Dot Effect is. The Blue Dot Effect is that a lot of times our minds fall into this danagerous thinking pattern where they they expect problems all the time, even when they are not there. Because of this many people start thinking that there are problems where there aren't any at all. Of course there are still many people who actually face a lot of problems often.

@ajk9420

7 ай бұрын

@@channelpolitica1364 so you’re referring to problems as in trauma. And that these problems aren’t even real and don’t exist. So what is your solution or hypothetical solution? But maybe I phrased it weird or maybe you just wanted to disagree. I said that “The more that one focuses on the trauma, the more the traumatic reminders will pop up.” So to break it down, I’m saying the more that you focus on let’s say your childhood trauma then the more you’re going to be focusing on the triggers that brought up the trauma. So if you don’t reflect on your childhood trauma much then you’re not going to be reminded as much. You’re saying that “… a lot of times our mind fall into dangerous thinking patterns where they expect problems that’s not there.” So you’re saying, that when someone thinks of something (Ex:car accidents) then they’re going to be fearing of car accidents even when they’re driving normally and safely. So in conclusion you’re saying the more you think of something the more you’re going to hallucinate ideas about that something even if it’s not there. I’m trying to see where we differ in ideas. Yeah you added that “even when they’re not there” part, but I’m having a hard time seeing where we differ on our conclusion. Also I’d like to see any sort of suggestion for a solution.

Reminds me of how people in safe neighbourhoods seem to be the ones most scared of crime

Nice, give me something to worry about and offer no solution. Helpful vid

An Arabic jusge once said that he never finish a case in one day, he always has to have a night of sleep so that his thoughts are refreshed. I've used this advice and it really does makes difference

@B.Mega.D

7 ай бұрын

The good old 'sleep-on-it' advice. Very useful

@angelab4652

7 ай бұрын

Always sleep- on-it. !!

@nybotheveg

6 ай бұрын

Combine that with the horrifying fact that criminals who receive sentencing right before lunch break are punished than criminals who are sentenced right after.

The best self help book is that sentence : just do it

@plainlake

5 ай бұрын

Worst suicide hotline ever.

This feels like it needs a whole video.

I’m glad it looped because I needed to go back and connect it to the end.

@Sada-xg9ew

4 ай бұрын

Connection not found. 🫡

This makes sense. First time I see someone I can instantly have a feeling if they are a bad person, ugly etc but get me to hang out for a few days and it all disappears

@4UnlimitedBEing

7 ай бұрын

No, that's actually the definition of prejudice - judging something or someone based on little or no facts of that person or situation and projecting past experiences as well as any current feelings and emotions onto the person or situation. If your "read" changes once you have experiential evidence, you pre-judged the person/situation.

@Scripps-on2nx

7 ай бұрын

Thats quite different. The reason why your doubt or judging goes away eventually because you get COMFORTABLE progressively with them subconsciously with those hanging out. However the pattern seems similar to the topic video mentioned.

@rudra7615

7 ай бұрын

@@4UnlimitedBEing so…. That is just human nature and something we all do right?

Holy shit, I don't know how to explain this to u but just from hearing this idea from you in one of your articles. I started completely altering the trajectory of my life. I was stuck in a loop of trying to be perfect at all these ideas that I completely became unaware of how I was already good enough how my life was actually declining. I truly appreciate you and your ideas. You've helped me understand what it really means to challenge the norm.

When something disgusts me, I see it everywhere.

I think we should take into account that the more the brain is worked, the harder thinking gets. In elementary school, we had a computer assignment in which we were supposed to choose the correct colored shape. The colors and shapes would both change between questions, and the question would also change. After about 45 minutes, if it asked where the yellow triangle was, i might click a yellow circle. This was 5th grade. They were simple answers to find, but over time, it became harder. I don't know if they took this into account, but i thought id mention it anyway.

finally an explanation to every bad relationship that i have had.

That's really good.

When solving something, as time passes this type of problem increases more and more in my brain 😵‍💫😵

When you can't find it, you start looking for more specific things to target them

The problem with this is that, in a situation where there are no blues, or no threatening faces, i am still being prompted to identify them. My immediate instinct, then, is to identify the faces that are closest to being threatening and the dots closest to blue as being threatening or blue respectively. I may not actually believe these responses, but because I was told to produce an output, i produce an output.

So that's why I barely ever feel like I've done enough work

Find the threatening face... "Ummm, well I can't see my ex though"

Replace “blue dot” with fixing negative experience/behaviors. You have fixated on fixing the negative thoughts and behaviors for so long it becomes such a well worn pathway of thought that your brain begins turning purple dots, or non-threatening faces into blue dots, threatening faces, and the negative experience/behaviors you are trying solve. It becomes confirmation bias. You are looking for the blue dots because that’s how you’ve trained your mind to process and filter events for so long, now it sees blue dots where there aren’t any.

@alyonaf1054

7 ай бұрын

What is even remotely negative about the blue dot though?:) It's completely neutral. And makes you question the way they've interpreted the results.:)

@crookedbook8862

7 ай бұрын

The blue dot itself is not negative. Reframing situations to accommodate the need to continuously find blue dots is, however, not. It’s confirmation bias. It’s training your mind to look for something enough until that is all you see. If you’re literally looking for blue dots, it’s not negative. If you are training your mind to continuously examine how your boss speaks to you, scanning for negative information, then that’s all your brain will pick up on. You will keep creating a problem that has already been solved. But your brain can’t let go.

@patholinofa4601

7 ай бұрын

​@@alyonaf1054it's not the fact it's negative in nature, it's simply that this phenomenon can cause one to become fixated on certain things, which sometimes comes from a negative or pessimistic line of thought.

Your brain likes to work with filters. Your brain works extra good on finding things that match those filters (basically what you're looking for). You filter for blue dots -> you get blue dots. You bought a BMW -> ever noticed how BMWs are suddenly everywhere?? You look for bad things -> You find bad things, BUT you look for good things -> You find good things! To top all that, there is no objective reality, there is only your view and your brains interpretation -> the world is literally what you make it! (So own it! 😊)

@coolbreeze5683

7 ай бұрын

I agree with that...there's no such thing as reality, only perception. Sometimes when you look for good things, you can get what others interpret as something "bad" but it's your own perspective that can see it as a challenge or an opportunity, which are ultimately good things.

@0to_002

7 ай бұрын

This makes lot more sense…. Thnx!

@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc

7 ай бұрын

Ok well now I choose to interpret that my dingus is a foot long then

@catianarietveld7520

7 ай бұрын

Realy nice explanation

@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc

7 ай бұрын

Confirmation bias 101

I think the blue dot effect has more to do with how we conceptualise what we're being asked and why by others. One of these must be blue because I've been asked to find blue dots. This one is slightly purple but maybe here, to these people, it counts as blue. It's about constructing a temporary agreement of how to perceive and describe reality with a group of people

Because of complex trauma in my childhood, I catastrophise a lot, as in I expect the worst to happen. I’ve been working through this and being much more aware over time of what actually is happening and not to expose myself to negativity (like watching the news a lot). The brain’s main function is to protect you, so if you have learned early on that the world is a dangerous place, it takes a lot of work to shake that off.

I’m always amazed at how seemingly simple experiments can have such profound implications. Goes to show how smart these researchers are.

12 step programs create a blue dot effect. Don't get it twisted 12 step work has helped me save myself from myself but I've noticed old timers who seem to be creating new things to work on. I just didn't know what to call it.

If you keep looking for something, You're going to find it, even if it isn't there

It is why certain people are reclassifying other people and words as being threatening, dangerous, harmful and problematic when they are nothing more than different.

This could also partially explain hypervigilance experience in groups of people that are often discriminated against. When even 10% of the people outside of that group could be ill intentions towards a member of that group, it's more likely that that group member will "blue dot" people who are otherwise well-meaning as an overtuned defense mechanism.

We see what we are accustomed to seeing, even after its long gone.

it also reflects how society will always find something that is wrong in it

*I feel like video got cut before he got to the solution* 😂

And this is, I gues, why we should all practice a little stoicism.

I feel like this also refers to people feeling insecure and plastic surgery addiction... They always find a new problem

@Rohan_Trishan

5 ай бұрын

It is truely sad and disturbing how people who may have self esteem probs or self concious will go get plastic/cosmetic surgery.... and the predatory practices by some fo those cosmetic surgeons will take advantage to get them to do all these ridiculous and gross procedures like lips, cheek fat removal, butt implants. Horrible what goes on, and sad to witness. This is the danger of "do what makes you feel happy", when sometimes people should hear "you are perfect the way you are" or to just stick to makeup if you wanna tweak your looks and avoid extreme body mods. I have a problem with gender related stuff like the hormones or surgery for the same reason.... people think it is a quick fix for their internal problems, but it will not magically fix anything and just result in them being stuck on hormones that can cause problems or top/bottom surgery which just leads to more cosmetic surgeries.

@ceryxfigmenti5377

4 ай бұрын

​@@Rohan_Trishanbruh hormones are something very different from cosmetic surgeries. They are lifesavers for trans people. Sure, they wont fix everything, but they will give the trans people who are in need of them the basis for a happy life where they can finally get better. The regret rates are near zero its not even funny anymore to hear people talk about it like this.

@ceryxfigmenti5377

4 ай бұрын

and "hormones causing problems" is a silly idea. Its not like people are put at unhealthy hormone levels, they are put on hormone levels that are normal for a man or a woman. Saying that either of these hormonal levels is dangerous is saying that its dangerous for cis people too. And I dont see anyone lamenting about men running on high testosterone low estrogen or women running on high estrogen low testosterone, so its just shit if people pretend if its a problem if thats done by transpeople who just wanna live their damn lives.

@Rohan_Trishan

4 ай бұрын

@ceryxfigmenti5377 Then why are there people who de transition. These trans people, especially the teens I worry about, are still perfectly healthy other then their mental psych condition of gender dysphria... biologically healthy. We should not encourage anyone to take hormones that will have drastic effects on body, and be slave to pharmaceuticals and have to go to doctor or get injections every month for rest of their life. If as adult, they know the risk, then fine that is their choice just like other HRT or cosmetic surgeries. Also, hormones are balanced for men and women, with each individual having their own internal balance homeostasis. Men taking estrogen and blocking testosterone to be more feminine or like a women is not what their body was designed for, and it will cause many changes and harmful side effects. Loss of bone density is one, but plenty of other cause that is what hormones do. Best to just try to stay natural, or know the risks going in and not be misled to think its safe. Ozempic is another drug that is very dangerous and causing problems, prob will be recalled, but egotistical and vain people will ignore it just to lose fat.... the blame doctors pharma years later when peeps dying. Main problem is the push to encourage our allow kids teens to rush into gender treatments. It's like letting a kid have cosmetic surgery or take steroids. No difference, cosmetic can wait.

When I remembered that I read this thing in a book, and then saw who's channel this is I realised its Mark Manson the GOAT

This meshes with my observation that “you don’t believe what you see, you see what you believe”.

This explains why even though crime rates decline in the US, people still feel more threatened and vigilant

@justaguy328

6 ай бұрын

The US is a big country. There are plenty of dangerous places in the US.

@mooster47

5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure that the main reason people feel more threatened now is that via social media they see reports of every petty crime that would never have made print media in the old days.

@jayabee

5 ай бұрын

​@@mooster47well yes and every heinous crime. It's not that those are new. Just too much information.