Speaker 0: misery of very different things.
Speaker 1: I agree, and it's interesting to hear you say that reducing misery is more important than promoting happiness. In some ways that feels like a critique of the positive psychology movement.
Speaker 0: It is
Speaker 1: and tell me a little bit more about Why?
Speaker 0: Well, uh, I think the positive psychology movement has in some ways a deeply conservative position. That is, It says, Let's accept people's condition as it is and let's make people feel better about their unchanging condition. You know, there has been some critique positive psychology along those lines. I'm not, uh I'm not innovating here, but I think that
Luke's Note
Whereas Positive Psychology forces on reframing your situation (increasing happiness), we’d be better of changing our situation (reducing misery)
Speaker 0: rationalizing your own decision or you're confirming your own decision. And there is a lot of research indicating that this is actually what happens in interviews. That interview is spend a lot of time. They make their mind up very quickly, and they spend the rest of the interview confirming what they believe, which is really a waste of time.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, So the idea of delaying your intuition is to make sure that you've gathered comprehensive, accurate, unbiased information so that then when your intuition forms, it's based on better sources. Better data? Is that Is that what you're after? Yes,
Speaker 0: because I don't think you can make decisions without there being endorsed by your
Luke's Note
Delay your intuition
Speaker 1: forms, it's based on better sources. Better data? Is that Is that what you're after? Yes,
Speaker 0: because I don't think you can make decisions without there being endorsed by your
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