Daniel Kahneman

And that's a beautiful point.

And he showed, he had that image that I've had since I was an undergraduate.

And I'm not sure actually whether it was his image or something that I drew from reading him.

But it's like you have a plank and it's being held.

by two sets of springs.

You know, you wanted to move one direction, and so you could add another spring that would push it that way, or you could remove one of the springs that are holding it back.

And the interesting thing, and that's the striking outcome, is when it moves,

If it moves because of the driving force, you've added to the driving force, then at equilibrium, it will be in a higher state of tension than it was originally.

That is because you've compressed wet spring and such, pushing back harder.

But if you remove the restraining force at equilibrium, there'll be less tension in the system.

I must have been 20 years old.

I thought that's just so beautiful.

You know, class two, which is a development from class one, you know, it's the same idea extended.

Class two is that behaviors...

don't necessarily reflect the personality, but behaviors have a lot to do with the situation.

And so if people behave in strange ways, look at the situation they're in and what are the pressures in the situation that make them act this way.

So, there is a bias that a social psychologist, well-known social psychologist, call the fundamental attribution error.

And that means that when you see people acting in some way, you think that it's because of their personality that they do it.

That may not be the case.

It's quite likely that the situation is making them do it.