Dr. Ethan Kross

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But you're taking special steps to be able to align yourself with the advice that you would give to someone else. Like reflexively, sometimes we stumble, right?

But you're taking special steps to be able to align yourself with the advice that you would give to someone else. Like reflexively, sometimes we stumble, right?

But you're taking special steps to be able to align yourself with the advice that you would give to someone else. Like reflexively, sometimes we stumble, right?

Well, it's interesting. If you go back to when Facebook first came on the scene, one of the early prompts that it would use to get people to contribute textual information to, do you remember what this was? What is on your mind? So you would be cued to share what is on your mind.

Well, it's interesting. If you go back to when Facebook first came on the scene, one of the early prompts that it would use to get people to contribute textual information to, do you remember what this was? What is on your mind? So you would be cued to share what is on your mind.

Well, it's interesting. If you go back to when Facebook first came on the scene, one of the early prompts that it would use to get people to contribute textual information to, do you remember what this was? What is on your mind? So you would be cued to share what is on your mind.

And, you know, in some ways you could think of various forms of social media as providing people with a giant megaphone for their inner voice. It is literally asking you, or it did, what is on your mind right now?

And, you know, in some ways you could think of various forms of social media as providing people with a giant megaphone for their inner voice. It is literally asking you, or it did, what is on your mind right now?

And, you know, in some ways you could think of various forms of social media as providing people with a giant megaphone for their inner voice. It is literally asking you, or it did, what is on your mind right now?

We should come back to that because that's also modifying your your spaces, which is another tool that I think is underutilized. So we should talk about that too.

We should come back to that because that's also modifying your your spaces, which is another tool that I think is underutilized. So we should talk about that too.

We should come back to that because that's also modifying your your spaces, which is another tool that I think is underutilized. So we should talk about that too.

It's remarkable and not always bad. So we often talk about social media like it is a de facto harm to society. There are negative features of social media that are well documented. There are also some, I would argue, redemptive qualities to it. I'll give you one of my personal ones, which is sometimes like to unwind before bed, I'm thinking all day.

It's remarkable and not always bad. So we often talk about social media like it is a de facto harm to society. There are negative features of social media that are well documented. There are also some, I would argue, redemptive qualities to it. I'll give you one of my personal ones, which is sometimes like to unwind before bed, I'm thinking all day.

It's remarkable and not always bad. So we often talk about social media like it is a de facto harm to society. There are negative features of social media that are well documented. There are also some, I would argue, redemptive qualities to it. I'll give you one of my personal ones, which is sometimes like to unwind before bed, I'm thinking all day.

I wanna just watch some ridiculously funny short reels. Yeah, raccoon videos. Yeah, I mean, you know, my wife looks over at me and she's like, what are you laughing at? And then I sometimes I show her and she goes, why are you laughing at that, right? So, but, you know, the algorithm has learned the specific kinds of funny videos that I like. And no, I'm not gonna tell you what they are.

I wanna just watch some ridiculously funny short reels. Yeah, raccoon videos. Yeah, I mean, you know, my wife looks over at me and she's like, what are you laughing at? And then I sometimes I show her and she goes, why are you laughing at that, right? So, but, you know, the algorithm has learned the specific kinds of funny videos that I like. And no, I'm not gonna tell you what they are.

I wanna just watch some ridiculously funny short reels. Yeah, raccoon videos. Yeah, I mean, you know, my wife looks over at me and she's like, what are you laughing at? And then I sometimes I show her and she goes, why are you laughing at that, right? So, but, you know, the algorithm has learned the specific kinds of funny videos that I like. And no, I'm not gonna tell you what they are.

And it just lightens the load. And so that's a way that I'm using social media very strategically to shift my emotions in a direction I want them to be shifted