083—What's one thing you're proud of doing this year?
🧠 Branding the Problem 🖼 Show & Tell (Scotch & Bean) 👉 12 Days of Cardmas
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🤔 What's one thing you're proud of?
Social science suggests that pride is a deeply ingrained human behavior, with kids first experiencing it as early as 30 months into life. Research believe that pride is a emotion that motivates and reinforces socially valued behaviors that earn you social status and respect.
And it turns out talking about what you're proud of is part of that!
Proud individuals ensure these benefits by directly informing others of their accomplishments; the two most frequent behavioral responses to a pride experience are ‘‘making contact with others’’ (reported by 47% of individuals experiencing pride) and ‘‘seeking out others’’ (39%; Noftle & Robins, 2006).
Doesn't have to be the "most important" thing or the thing you'll put in your annual review. But just something that mattered to you. Tell me so I can celebrate with you!
Once again, reply back over email (it just goes to me) and I'll share with you my answer!
🧠 The Importance of Branding a Problem
I'm reading a great book called Upstream by Dan Heath about the challenge of preventative efforts to solve problems before they happen. This is obviously a huge challenge when you think about things like climate change, public health, or anti-Asian hate.
One of the ideas Dan articulates is about problem blindness. The idea that until we really make it clear that something is a problem, we can't solve it. This may seem obvious, but there are a lot of problems people will dismiss as simply "how things go".