Mark Manson

Right.

Yeah.

People can be trusted.

Can can the average person be trusted?

Right.

And it's in a shocking amount of people say no.

Or I'm lucky and- Right, which interestingly like has some real effects.

We talked about on the resilience episode, we talked about self-efficacy, which is basically simply the belief that like I am capable of doing the thing I want to do.

And sure enough, in the research, they find that one of the most significant variables to-

surviving hardship or overcoming a challenge is believing you're capable of surviving hardship or overcoming a challenge.

So beliefs do have a very real impact, and they really are adaptable.

I think they arise as a response to adapting to our environment, and I think they fall apart when they start to fail to adapt to our environment anymore.

How hard do you think beliefs are to identify, though?

Sometimes it's pretty easy, I think, right?

So I think there's two kind of difficulties here.

One is...

What is kind of a definitional thing?

Like some things are very relative, right?

So your idea of trustworthiness might be very different from mine.

You know, you run into this a lot when like I remember years ago, I remember talking to a woman who was very like very driven by money.