Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

So I don't know if this kind of makes sense, but.

See, when you get criticized by one person, it hurts.

When you were a gigantic streamer and you get criticized by 10,000 people, 100,000 people, your brain doesn't view that criticism probabilistically.

It just doesn't.

That's not how our brain works.

Our brain doesn't do a calculation of, okay, 99% of people like me, 1% of people hate me.

It just looks at the 1% of people that hates you or the 10,000 people who hate you or the 100,000 people who hate you.

And that's very psychologically traumatic.

It's not a percentage.

That's just our brain is bad at probability.

There's all kinds of studies about this.

You can look at things like the Monty Hall problem and things like that.

It's why human beings play the lottery.

And it's why human beings gamble because we suck at probabilistic thinking.

It's a feature.

And so when you're a streamer, it requires, right, because some people are going to hate you no matter what.

And how do you protect your psyche from people who hate you no matter what?

There's a series of defense mechanisms that we'll use.

The narcissistic defense mechanism is one of the biggest ones.

Right?