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Dan Ariely

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

Help me understand. So I tried to understand them. By the way, I gave ChatGPT my book. And I said, please summarize it in one word. And the word was empathy. And I kind of like that. At the end of the day, it's a very sad story about our time, but I think I ended up having a lot of empathy for my attackers.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

Help me understand. So I tried to understand them. By the way, I gave ChatGPT my book. And I said, please summarize it in one word. And the word was empathy. And I kind of like that. At the end of the day, it's a very sad story about our time, but I think I ended up having a lot of empathy for my attackers.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

So first of all, I think your conclusion that we're all susceptible is very important because it's very easy to say, oh, it's them versus us. We don't need to worry. Because we're good people and it's those people and they need to worry. But of course, it's not them versus us. It's humanity. And we have a machine that is creating stress and information and so on.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

So first of all, I think your conclusion that we're all susceptible is very important because it's very easy to say, oh, it's them versus us. We don't need to worry. Because we're good people and it's those people and they need to worry. But of course, it's not them versus us. It's humanity. And we have a machine that is creating stress and information and so on.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

And it's leading us down a path toward misbelief. And the first thing that I learned was causing people to question the current narrative and to go for an alternative one is stress. And I don't mean distressed of saying, gee, I have too much email. I don't know how I'll finish. I mean, the stressing, I don't understand the world. Why am I sick? Why did I lose my job?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

And it's leading us down a path toward misbelief. And the first thing that I learned was causing people to question the current narrative and to go for an alternative one is stress. And I don't mean distressed of saying, gee, I have too much email. I don't know how I'll finish. I mean, the stressing, I don't understand the world. Why am I sick? Why did I lose my job?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

My parents told me I'll do better than they do. Why is my town losing? I mean, just think about it. What are the Houthis doing attacking American merchant ships around the world? What is Iran exactly doing? And my students, right? They say things like, tell me that whatever profession I'm learning now will still be around in three years. So I'm not so sure.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

My parents told me I'll do better than they do. Why is my town losing? I mean, just think about it. What are the Houthis doing attacking American merchant ships around the world? What is Iran exactly doing? And my students, right? They say things like, tell me that whatever profession I'm learning now will still be around in three years. So I'm not so sure.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

So we're dealing with a period of very high stress and very low resilience. We don't have the same number of good friends. We don't spend enough time with extended family. At work, we don't have friends anymore. We have work friends. Economic inequality is decreasing resilience. So we're dealing in a very tough period. And look, the stress in the world is the stress in the world.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

So we're dealing with a period of very high stress and very low resilience. We don't have the same number of good friends. We don't spend enough time with extended family. At work, we don't have friends anymore. We have work friends. Economic inequality is decreasing resilience. So we're dealing in a very tough period. And look, the stress in the world is the stress in the world.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

The hooties are the hooties until we get rid of that problem. It's not something. But the thing that we need to deal with is resilience. I have to say that part of my attempt to try and understand this problem is my attempt to control it. If you're a victim, which I was for the first month, I was just a victim. I was just accused, accused, accused, accused.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

The hooties are the hooties until we get rid of that problem. It's not something. But the thing that we need to deal with is resilience. I have to say that part of my attempt to try and understand this problem is my attempt to control it. If you're a victim, which I was for the first month, I was just a victim. I was just accused, accused, accused, accused.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

And by starting to study it, I had some of my own autonomy, some agency. I said, okay, now I'm studying you. You're the one who's been attacking me. You want to be my executioner? Fine. Help me understand how you got to these beliefs.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

And by starting to study it, I had some of my own autonomy, some agency. I said, okay, now I'm studying you. You're the one who's been attacking me. You want to be my executioner? Fine. Help me understand how you got to these beliefs.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

Yeah. I needed to understand what was going on. In some sense, what you're asking, and it's very true, in some sense, I was doing what they were doing. So the misbelievers, as I call them, were living in a very, very stressful time, and they were looking for an explanation. And they found Bill Gates and the cabal were doing kind of things. Me, I was also in a very stressful period.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

Yeah. I needed to understand what was going on. In some sense, what you're asking, and it's very true, in some sense, I was doing what they were doing. So the misbelievers, as I call them, were living in a very, very stressful time, and they were looking for an explanation. And they found Bill Gates and the cabal were doing kind of things. Me, I was also in a very stressful period.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

I was also looking for an explanation. But the explanation I was looking for is explanation about the interaction of human nature and technology. I think it's a healthier journey. And I looked at it more as a scientist. But I think, yes, the part of getting control, explaining the story, understanding what is going on, these were very important parts of the story.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

I was also looking for an explanation. But the explanation I was looking for is explanation about the interaction of human nature and technology. I think it's a healthier journey. And I looked at it more as a scientist. But I think, yes, the part of getting control, explaining the story, understanding what is going on, these were very important parts of the story.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

By the way, it is tough. There's a good chance that some of them are still after me. There's a good chance that even this podcast, some people would write some really terrible things.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Surviving Lies, Rumors, and Digital Hate: Dan Ariely’s Guide to Thriving Online | E57

By the way, it is tough. There's a good chance that some of them are still after me. There's a good chance that even this podcast, some people would write some really terrible things.