Jonathan Haidt Citas

• Supón que lees sobre una pastilla que puedes tomar una vez al día para reducir la ansiedad y aumentar tu satisfacción. ¿La tomaría? Supongamos además que la píldora tiene una gran variedad de efectos secundarios, todos ellos buenos: aumenta la autoestima, la empatía y la confianza; incluso mejora la memoria. Supongamos, por último, que la píldora es totalmente natural y no cuesta nada. ¿La tomaría? La píldora existe. Es la meditación.

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  Success, Trust, Sympathy

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

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• La felicidad no viene de conseguir lo que quieres. Tampoco viene del interior. La felicidad viene del *entre*, de encontrar la relación adecuada entre uno mismo y los demás, entre uno mismo y su trabajo, y entre uno mismo y algo más grande que uno mismo.

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  Getting What You Want, Want, What You Want

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• You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

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  Dog, People, Mind

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

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  Mind, Stories, Logic

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.281, Vintage

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• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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  People, Mind, Religion And Politics

  "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion". Book by Jonathan Haidt, 2012.

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

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  Team, Fighting, Fate

  Jonathan Haidt (2016). “Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind”, p.46, Vintage

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• Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

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  Intuition, Firsts, Strategic

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.70, Vintage

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• Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

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  Emotional, Brain, Sophisticated

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.13, Basic Books

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

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  Team, Reality, Morality

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• Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

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  People, Connections, Done

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.223, Basic Books

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• The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

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  Motivation, Powerful, Inspiration

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• If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

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  Support, Feelings, Argument

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• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.

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  Powerful, Selfish, Years

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

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  Jobs, Elephants, Mind

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• Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

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  Reason, Should, Values

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.89, Vintage

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• Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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  Empathy, Moral, Righteousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

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• Cuando oigas a alguien criticar una política del otro bando, está bien. Pero cuando empieces a oír motivaciones y demonizaciones, enfréntate a ellas igual que lo harías si se tratara de algo racista o sexista. Si evitamos la demonización, los desacuerdos pueden ser positivos.

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  Being Positive, Racist, Hearing

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• Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

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  Thinking, Metaphor, Guides

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• Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

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  Practice, People, Together

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.257, Vintage

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

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  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

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  Simple, Understanding, Mind

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.4, Vintage

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• In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

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  Passion, Men, Battle

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• While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

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  Impact, Long, People

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• We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.

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  Teenager, Maturity, Brain

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

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  Justice, Diversity, Virtue

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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