Jonathan Haidt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Fantastic.
And that's really important that you don't have an idea.
OK, so so because we.
We read Lenore's book and we know her.
We encouraged Max to walk to school a year or two before everybody else was walking.
And this is in Greenwich Village right here in New York City.
And, you know, it's a safe neighborhood in terms of crime.
But, you know, there's some busy streets to cross.
But Max is really good at that, as I was when I was 7, 8, 9, 10 years old.
So we let him walk to school.
And the first time we let him walk, we were terrified.
And we were watching the blue dot on the phone because we could track him.
The next day we watched again.
And I think we might have watched a third day.
But here's the thing about anxiety.
The way you get rid of it is by exposing yourself to the stimulus and then nothing bad happens.
And by Pavlovian processes, the anxiety drops.
So we trusted him and he quickly learned the subway system.
He's just amazing as a navigator.
All right.