Dr. Cliff Redford

And what you see is every once in a while, someone who's a little bit ahead of someone else opens the door and holds it open.

Okay, we've all done that.

We've all seen that, right?

But what we haven't maybe noticed, because we don't record these things consciously very often, is what very commonly happens when someone holds the door open for someone else.

Do you want to take a guess?

A quick thank you, a smile?

No, the person behind speeds up.

But check this out.

If you look at the time it takes to get those two individuals through the door, it's greater than the time it takes to get the two of them through the door when they do this little dance.

When one holds the door open, the other one speeds up.

So they both get through the door.

more rapidly than the time it would take for each one of them separately to get through the doors.

We become prone to anxiety and depression.

We become prone to irrational beliefs and misinformation.

We become suspicious of people who are not like us, but also our own neighbors and maybe even our own family members.

We start to hollow out.

Because what we're doing, it's sort of like operating a car, but inefficiently.

You're burning through too much fuel.

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