Heroes
Dr. Well Lyrics

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We've tried to fight a war that is never ending
So we gave in to all of those were winning
Take my hand and we'll go to destination 3.0
Change the world, make it better, cause we know it's worth it
I know you were trying so hard
We've got to save the World
I know you were trying so hard
We've got to save the World

I know you were trying so hard
We've got to save the World
I know you were trying so hard
We've got to save the World
Save the World
We've given it all but now we're here standing
I told you, if we just gave in we could find something
Take my hand and we'll go to destination 3.0
Change the world, make it better, cause we know it's worth it
We won't win if we don't plan now
I know it's hard to change and let go
We've got to save the world
We've got to save the world
Can you blame me for wanting more than just a hit or miss?
I know we stand for something but we'll just have to wait for it
We won't win if we don't plan now
I know it's hard to change and let go
We've got to save the world
We've got to save the world
Save the World
Save the World
We won't win if we don't plan now
I know it's hard to change and let go

We've got to save the world
We've got to save the world

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Dr. Well's song "Heroes" analyze the struggle to save the world, despite the ongoing war that never seems to come to a conclusion. The song states that sometimes it is more beneficial to give in to those who are ahead. It then implores the listener to join hands and go to Destination 3.0, uniting in order to change the world, recognizing its value. The song acknowledges the struggles of trying to make a positive change, but insists that it is both difficult and necessary in order to combat the threat to the world that the lyrics refer to.

The repetition of "We've got to save the world" emphasizes the urgency of the situation, and highlights the importance of joining forces to work towards a common goal. The lyrics continue with the message that change and adaptation are necessary in order to overcome the challenge faced. The song concludes with the repetition of "Save the World", once again emphasizing the urgency and importance of the task at hand.

Line by Line Meaning

We've tried to fight a war that is never ending
We've attempted to combat an insurmountable issue.

So we gave in to all of those were winning
Thus, we conceded to those who were prevailing.

Take my hand and we'll go to destination 3.0
Follow me, and we shall move forward to a better world.

Change the world, make it better, cause we know it's worth it
Alter the planet towards an improved state, for we deem it valuable.

I know you were trying so hard
I understand that you made an exerted effort.

We've got to save the World
We must rescue the Earth.

Save the World
Rescue the Earth.

We've given it all but now we're here standing
We've provided our entirety, but we remain in the same situation.

I told you, if we just gave in we could find something
I mentioned that if we yield, we could locate an alternative.

We won't win if we don't plan now
If we do not organize our strategies immediately, we will not succeed.

I know it's hard to change and let go
I realize that it is arduous to modify and relinquish previous ideas.

Can you blame me for wanting more than just a hit or miss?
Is it unjustifiable to crave more than a random chance?

I know we stand for something but we'll just have to wait for it
Although we embody certain principles, we must endure a bit longer.

We've got to save the world
We must rescue the Earth.

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Steve

1y↑61

I think it's deep rooted values.

I volunteer at a certain "heroic" organization. Mentally it wasn't a difficult decision to make. I wanted to do something where I'm not the beneficiary, so I signed up and took the role.

When my help is required, it's just automatic to respond. Exceptions can be made, sometimes I have very important things that can't be disturbed, but most of the time it's automatic to let go of what I'm doing and respond.

imo there will be a point in someone's life, when one feels secure enough, mentally and physically, that they start to think about what they could contribute beyond just for themselves.

Also, I very rarely ( can't say I don't or never ) cheat. It's just not something I do and I still want to have my integrity intact.

Jason Hardin

43w

It actually is easy, its just unpleasant

Going sweat from hard work isnt difficult, its incomfortable

Building a nuclear engine is both

Thinking about deep biblical stories is only difficult, not uncomfortable

People have really decided that any unpleasant sensation is too 'difficult' to endure - its super easy to be a little uncomfortable, its just less easy than sitting in a warm bath all day...

All comments from YouTube:

richard earls

42w↑36

Dr. Sapolsky is awesome, always enjoy his videos.

mmoore

1y↑246

This fellow has a great lecture series on behavioral biology that you can find here on youtube.

The Well

1y↑46

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA

mmoore

1y↑21

@The Well <3

slumpiiii

1y↑9

Literally the best series of videos i have ever watched, thanks

Kumara Kantirava

48w↑4

@The Well Very Kind of You.

Lemur Potatoes

43w↑5

To those with a time constraint, Behave by Sapolsky covers most of the same material.

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Bonquva

43w↑96

This reminds me of my friend ive known since a kid. He was always great at school, never struggled he always went home after school and the first thing he did was eat something then do his homework. Then go out and play with us or log online for games. Its been these recent few years where i have kept wondering and asking him how he does it so easily? When for me, if i know im supposed to study for the SATs i just have it infront of me and say like, ahh il do it after these 2 episodes of hunterxhunter..
So struggling w that ive kept asking him and his answe has always been " what do you mean? I. Just. do. it. If i know its meant to be done and its something i prioritize, then i just do it. before anything else"
And this video kinda touches exactly on that. Having principles. JUST DOING IT shia labeouf style

Kuya B

43w↑5

Your friend should star in a Nike commercial.

Bonquva

43w↑9

@Kuya B Dawg, he is training for a marathon now aswell hahah. He really is always doing his best

BabyFood

42w↑1

hunter x hunter is amazing can't blame you

Irok 121

38w

Watch the episode after you reach an attainable-but-not-stupidly-easy goal

You can start with stupidly easy goals to get yourself going on it, then slowly ramp up your goals to where they need to be, then you'll be rewarded after

Adam Bechtol

44w↑27

Another gem by Sapolsky.
As usual. As expected 👍.

Michael Bartlett

45w↑47

Take this bit of wisdom from an older person - in the latter part of your life, It's not so much the things that you did during your life that that bothers and gnaws at your conscience, but rather the things that you didn't do!

antonyjh1234

44w↑1

Surely it matters on what you did during your life?
How could something I didn't do, gnaw at my conscience?

Michael Bartlett

44w↑1

@antonyjh1234 Of course I agree with you here, I was talking about someone who led a decent life - not an evil person, but they probably don't have a conscience anyway. Psychopaths and sociopaths rarely do!

antonyjh1234

44w

@Michael Bartlett it could mean all people, no matter who you are have the things they didn't do that will "gnaw" at them, both decent and evil will always have things they didn't do and feel as though they could do more but I'm not so sure we should use the word gnaw, it promotes FOMO. A person could spend ten years partying and feel bad and another could feel bad because they didn't.

Michael Bartlett

44w

@antonyjh1234 Yeah, sometimes it's those parties you didn't attend that bother you.

antonyjh1234

44w

@Michael Bartlett And sometimes it is.

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Steve

1y↑61

The Well

1y↑11

That makes sense. When you have, in essence, already made the decision in advance it makes it more automatic when the situation arises.

Gordon York

1y↑3

In other words 'practice'.

ChannelMath

37w

I don't even think you need to say "deep rooted", or maybe values are deep rooted by definition. In any case, we all have a code that we just go by automatically, even if we've never consciously constructed our code. It's necessary to have one, because things happen fast. Sometimes we encounter an new kind of situation not covered by our code. Then we usually freeze. I think that's most of the people just standing there when an accident happens.

LtDangle911

35w

You “very rarely cheat”? Seems to go against the whole automatic “we just don’t do that” thing he’s talking about…

Anant Lamba

43w↑7

Seems like the more we bring thought into it, the more effortful it gets and the more the chance of giving in, so to speak. But if we let the mind clear and let a choice come to us instead of trying to make one appear, we automatically choose the good, right thing.

ChannelMath

37w↑1

looking into myself, it seems like the hard, prefrontal cortex thinking is not about morality, but trying to figure out how to get away with it, or how to have it both ways, or how to make excuses for not doing the right thing. It's not the superego trying to get me to do the right thing, it's the selfish part trying to not do it. So yea: The more I think, the more likely I am to find the excuse, rationalization, or otherwise clever solution that I'm looking for rather than doing the obvious right thing. Which is fine, because sometimes there really is a third option that's better overall

Ataraxia

1y↑34

Wish more could truly grasp the significance of this. Instead of expecting ppl to do amazing things against their desire not to it’s more effective to just make it an automatic response. It’s less heroic and glamorous to do the hard but right thing not because you chose to but because it was just automatic bit it’s more reliable. Instead of being self disciplined through understanding the significance of it or having lots of motivation you need the right environment and habits set up. Instead of expecting people to choose not to do harmful drugs or treat each other well out of wanting the benefits of that, just get them conditioned with the right habits to avoid going off the path they need to be on.

27bit hut

40w

Ikr , it's conditioned from the very beginning , so is it too late now :( , i will always have to rely on willpower.

ChannelMath

37w

If only it were that simple. To build up that habit, you need to want to do the right thing in that situation in the first place. Not everyone really wants to jump into the dangerous water and risk their life to save someone -- and even if they did, I'm not sure how they would build up that habit. How do you build a habit of risking your life? No, you have to start with a person's values, which starts when they are a child or even before

Rg

37w↑1

His lectures on sociology are amazing

D S

42w↑9

This is why film and tv with anti-heroes as protagonists are superior to lame hero stories. They actually reflect the human experience and are honest works of art. When you have moral dilemmas as focal climax plot points (Like most stories in general) the character is going to do the selfish BAD thing, while the altruistic GOOD things are just ingrained habits/rules that have become automatic impulses. AKA the opposite of dilemma, tension, peak, climax and so forth.

Александр Шумихин

37w↑2

Maybe. Sometimes it also nice and cool to see people with strong moral principles who don't back down even when whole world, gods and fate against them. Never compromise, even in the face of Armageddon. That's chilling man, I can't do this, and I like seeing people doing badass things that I can't.
I think I was impressed like that twice or thrice total, and last time it was Shirou Emiya, anime/visual novel character from Fate franchise, who decided to be hero even knowing with certainty (from spirit of future self) he will be essentially crucified - betrayed, judged as criminal and left dying by same people he swore to protect, that's some Jesus Christ stuff man, odd type of insanity, alien mindset, you can speculate that such unreasonably heroic and altruistic people are the reason why humanity even worth salvation.
Or, on smaller and down to earth scale, this is maybe why our society isn't imploded yet, just people here and there doing their best for everyone around even if it costs them everything, you maybe see such people everyday and think that they're just useful gullible idiots, not even reflecting that they maybe silently carrying you right now on their shoulders.

Pytwd

44w↑25

This really resonates with how I’ve found some success with not viewing adult online ‘ahem! Content.

When I focused on applying effort or strategy during the moment of temptation, to do the right thing despite, I failed at it.

Once I started doing things to almost erase my awareness of it, live life as if I never knew it existed….I’ve found a lot more success.

Mr. Sapolsky’s presentation really correlated well with addicts experience of powerlessness doesn’t it ?

Bale Shomat

44w↑2

Aren't you putting effort in convincing yourself that a world without it exists? I honestly did not understand what he was trying to imply.

Pytwd

44w↑7

My impression is that the point is when you’re at the point of temptation , and have to make a choice to indulge or not, your chances aren’t so great?

Walking by the cookie jar and using self control Vs. Threw away the cookie jar two months ago and thinking about something else .

Ciii 123

44w↑1

I understand it. Ppl with awareness to count their days, day by day, relapse. The difficulty is when the brain suddenly count it

ThatGuy

44w↑2

@Bale Shomat It's very different. You are just dropping your awareness of it in that specific moment. It's doing 'nothing' (NOT recognizing something) instead of 'something' (recognizing that thing)

Vyshak

43w↑1

Let's not be a happening, a lucky chap who by inheritance got a brain that let's you passive to higher willpower and rest of us simply admire it.

I have been the most vulnerable to stress type of personality and the water signns by spirituality and most viable to any kind of addiction and i myself unknowingly caught up into substance and porn addiction like to the severe i spend like 18 hours a day on watching the most unbecoming of me to watch kinda stuffs later to fall into loop of regret and self sabotage.

Being spiritual and enneagram 4 , always tried and tried. Did therapy, did supplements after immense research, from Elliot hulse to mantak chia to kundlinii to even all esoteric methods , and praying to god's and what not. Finally i came out of it by a simple questionare and a diet and constant awareness a method which i by help of my subconscious got it. And now i came out of all addictions. If you want , trust me baby. I am there

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Ra1

45w↑4

Great content, " Self human behavior discipline " education and practices are key to making the whole world a seriously much better place to live for all despite everyone's differences, regardless of beliefs political parties etc. We can all do much better daily.

Artemius

44w

So, you've totally missed the point.

Ra1

44w

@ArtemiusPlease explain!!!

Artemius

44w

@Ra1 His point and the experiment he mentions are saying that "Self discipline" doesn't work. 4:56

Ra1

44w↑1

@Artemius Untrue.

Ayesha

44w↑36

People think doing the right thing is easy but it isn't. It's incredibly difficult and sometimes even puts your life in danger. Virtue isn't without price.

Penitent Exile

42w↑7

So what did you get out of the video?

yupa the rider

42w↑3

you prefrontal cortex is pulsating like mad right now

ChannelMath

37w

sometimes it is easy. but you still pay a price

Ayesha

34w

@ZSd4cT can you elaborate on this actually? I know I have pfc damage.

Billy Ranger

37w↑1

This man needs to be heard and acted upon those who claim they are educationalists.

Angela Hull

43w↑3

To an extent, willpower can change us in the changing of our exterior habits. What overcoming temptation really does is prime us to be more docile to the transformative power of grace.

MrVmneda

1y↑6

one of my favorite lecturers 🙏🙏👍👍

The Well

Glad to hear that!

Chacarron91

43w↑5

Personally I know when I’m being watched I stick to the rule but once I’m left alone (like at home for instance) that’s when I think I can “get away with things”. This ends up creating lack in confidence in ourselves and a sense of shame tho. “You can’t play others, you can only play yourself”

ChannelMath

37w↑1

i think that's Freud's 'superego' idea. He thought it was the internalized version of your parents, but I think now we know it's largely innate

YB Wang

44w↑6

that's so right. Every time I feel the impulse to do some good, my frontal lobe stops me. Works like a charm

Highs and cheerios uk

42w

😂😂😂

Rexyboi

45w↑13

So there really is a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

dr joe t velikovsky phd

1y↑9

Awesome video, thankyou TheWell! Keep up the awesome work. (Longtime Sapolsky fan here)

The Well

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.

Manya Mahajan

43w

I think he's retired from Stanford 😭 it was a dream of mine to do a PhD under him

Sujit Sadhnani

42w↑1

great explanation but you kept us hanging here doc, how does the graceful response develop, both emotionally and biologically, and is there a way to guide this development both in ourselves and to nudge the same in others.

Death By A Thousand Cats

1y↑9

When you are raised to be responsible, it's automatic to do 'heroic' things even though I think it's just something anybody can/should do.

ChannelMath

37w

risking your own life? I don't think that is, or at least that's not what most people would include in "being responsible"

Death By A Thousand Cats

37w

@ChannelMath Being heroic /responsible doesn't always mean you have to risk your life, most of the time it's about being quick and doing the right thing. There are also different levels of risks if you want to go there.

DE E

44w↑12

Being diagnosed with ADHD, this is where I have the greatest challenges, difficulty in self-regulation.

b3tth0l3

43w↑1

@Ickehave ADHD, have tried both for years. They don't "cure" ADHD. If something sounds too good to be true, it most usually is.

Icke

43w

@b3tth0l3 it’s a shoe that doesnt fit anyone. Have you at least overcome obesity?

Angela Hull

43w↑3

It's not a disease, it's a neuroatypical developmental process. Don't need a cure, just need to learn how to turn maladaptive behaviors into adaptive behaviors, with the help of therapies and accommodations. This is a skill that serves anyone well, whether they're neuroatypical or neurotypical.

DE E

42w

@Icke Yes, that should do it! Lol

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DJ Mileski

45w

I need to hear more from Robert on this subject please

Maxim T Potvin

1y↑27

People think denying free will is cold and devoid of humanity. What I have learned and intuited from Harris and Sapolsky on that matter is quite the opposite! The idea of free will being an illusion is an invitation to lower our judgments of others and to be ready to behave well. It should prompt people to forgive critically and to influence others positively. It's about nurturing and having compassion.

Instead, people debate whether I say that out of free will or not, as if it mattered! They seem to assume it implies a rejection of responsibility, accountability. Whether free will is true or not, we will pay for our actions! The only difference is how we should judge people and the type of consequence we "inflict".

The Well

1y↑1

Really interesting perspective, thanks for sharing!

ben hudson

1y↑1

Totally agree, people seem to think choice is freewill, 90% of the time we run autonomously with no free will

SuperPsychoSchizo

45w↑6

"Whether free will is true or not, we will pay for our actions!"
I agree with some of what you said, but this is demonstrably wrong. Did Stalin and Mao pay for their actions? Other's may pay for our actions, but this idea that there's a cosmic level of karma or equilibrium seems quite false once you look closely at cases of extreme injustice, cheating, betrayal etc. I understand the temptation to "rally the people" is deceptively strong, but people must build their strength and goodness on truth and values, not feel-good delusions. When people don't they are left open to predation by evil, as seen plenty throughout human history. Judging people accurately means respecting every individual's capacity for evil, without overly patronizing them with our own suspension of disbelief (and in turn leaving ourselves open to exploitation just to appear good).

Also, I agree with the idea that consciously we likely do not have free will (which is supported by scientific studies thus far), I think there is a real case to be made that our unconscious minds have free will, not that free-will is an illusion entirely. So while "we" the conscious beings don't directly initiate or choose our actions (we're just along for the ride), we still do have a direct dialogue and influence on the part of ourselves that have free will.

This also partially correlates with your ideas on judgment, namely that judgment is at least a partial responsibility/asset of our consciousness. As best I can tell judgment is entirely post-hoc (after the event) which aligns with the possibility that consciousness lacks free-will. Judgment doesn't directly effect the future, it analyzes the past and intent/outcomes and can only be used to predict the likelihood of outcomes. Free-will does directly effect the future (but the complexity of chaos theory renders judgement infinitely obsolete in complex scenarios) and the unconscious/conscious mind have evolved a divide and conquer adaptation.

Angela Hull

43w

You can both believe in free will and be less judgmental.

"True charity consists in not being surprised at our neighbor's faults and being efified by his least virtues." St. Therese of Lisieux

She came from a millieu that understands charity and love as an act of the will.

Kylie

44w

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks

danny iskandar

44w↑3

and one of the most powerful way to do it automatic is through discipline: eat the right thing + exercise the right thing. In this way the willpower will become easy, or in other words will become automatic.

Some Person

42w

I was about 7 (I think) when I encountered a situation where I could accumulate massive wealth (a couple cents). I was in the airport of italy, and woman dropped her purse. Several coins fell out, and she had missed a couple that she hadn't seen. For about 10 seconds I was eyeing it and didn't mention anything. I suppose those 10 seconds held my battle with satan, but I relented and told the woman that there were some coins there. For me, it wasn't a gut reaction or anything of that sort. I just thought it was wrong to take the money, probably due to my raising, though I still remember being a bit dissapointed when I pointed it out to the woman. Thinking back, if I had taken the money, my father would have taken it from me and given it to the woman, so the outcome wouldn't have changed

Skip Hoffenflaven

43w

From what I have witnessed, far too many Americans have lost this ability over the past 10 years. Feeling has replaced thinking (you can see it in YouTube comments and hear it in interview responses, such as “I feel like Mars is closer to the Earth than our moon is”, or “I feel like a cheetah would run slower than my dog”).

Yash

42w

I don't think it is more of a deep rooted valued or pre-defined default behaviour of a person to keep slacking off from the right thing and not doing what needs to be done , i think we can train our mind in certain way with our own understanding by defining the important work/thing to do which is right rather than slacking off and cheat in essence to this mindset we should have some kind of idea values and principles that we follow or person with the same ... this can be seen in armed forces (mostly of course not all) that before they were just like any other slack off kid but after certain period they are different with certain specific priorities , goals , principles , etc to follow , "We can" is the thing i believe so most folks can ...

ChannelMath

37w

Love Sapolsky, watched all his videos.
But I feel like if you've met a few humans, this is pretty obvious. When I think about my own mind under temptation, it seems like the frontal lobe is not the superego at all. It's not wrestling with moral philosophy (does anybody ever do this outside of the seminar?). My frontal lobe is the rationalizer and the chess player. It's trying to find a way to cheat and get away with it, it's looking for traps, thinking up excuses, ripostes to the moral arguments of others. That's higher-order thinking. Doing the heroic thing or the right thing requires something great, but it is not thought -- at least not in THESE cases. But take a situation where you have no definite reward, but an opportunity to do the right thing, if only you could figure out what that is -- then I bet you'll see the frontal cortex going harder in the more ethical among us

BlueDog15391

42w

Makes me wonder what to do with myself when I know that my moral qualities are questionable at best

A man of no reputation

44w↑2

The Buddhists worked this out by asking what it would mean to be the master of one self.
And the answer is,
"Yes, but why would you want to?"

Gordon York

1y↑8

When wanting to find out what a person is really like, watch him when he thinks no one is watching him.

Larik

43w

guess I’ll become a stalker to know people better

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R G

1y↑12

Living in grace. A higher spirituality fostered by the sober awareness that we are not our thoughts and emotions, but instead, we are merely the awareness of them. The SELF is the awareness of our thoughts, not our thoughts themselves. Being present in the true SELF, in the eternal moment, allows all temptation to be revealed for what it truly is: irrelevant.

The Well

1y↑1

Thank you for sharing

Mats A

37w

Interesting! So.. automatic in the sense of being habitual, or in the sense of being a personality trait they were born with?

Jason Hardin

43w

fallen angel

48w

this is the best channel on youtube for me , underrated

תמיר חייט

44w↑1

amazing loved this video thanks :-)

zeocit lahm

1y↑9

So basically the answer is "no, you just do that".

Nicola Boso

43w

Do you guys think that those virtues and values can be trained?

While the frontal cortex might not be the best resource to make the harder but better choice right now, can it be trained for future occurrences?

Angela Hull

43w

Yes, as far as changing exterior habits are concerned. You are still your nature and nurture. But you can choose to do more functional and adaptive things rather than persisting in more dysfunctional and maladaptive things. Interior change, the change that makes you a better, healthier person who can have healthier relationships with others is done by grace.

brezl8

39w

this is extremely interesting, and the implications of that are significant.

carlo ferretti

36w

Can you explain it to me? Still a bit confused?

DJ Mileski

45w

Genius discussion

Lando Calani

1y↑1

These videos should be longer and more detailed.

Sniper King

37w

so basically you don't train your willpower, you just identify as a person who does good things?

whatfffd

1y↑1

This is about a social strategy. Both outcomes have a chance to enhance their reputation amongst their social circle. Thus making either a male OR female more likely to procreate. It's automatic because it's biology.

B Enah

1y↑1

This is beautiful

exili

44w

does anyone have a link to the full talk?

William Seipp

42w

people who act like that are doing so because it's part of their value system.

If I had to give up my life for my child I wouldn't think twice. "It's gotta be done", and that's it. That determination isn't something I calculate on the fly; it's something I've decided ahead of time and hard-wired in through my behaviors daily every time I put my children's needs ahead of mine.

By the time some event like that occurs in my life, that neural / behavioral pathway is a well worn path. Making that decision is just an extension of what I've been doing all along; just way more public to others.

so in short, people wire themselves like that through a value system they actively build over time.

Penting Berhasil

42w

Its my understanding also , i think its all about our value, self identity and self concept that we hold in ourselves. But the issue now is how we can build our value again if we comes from enviroment that completely opposite of the value that we trying to build. And not to mention it must take hard work and determination ,thats what makes people fail i guess, the incapable of holding determination. And ironically thats what my situation right now haha.

Roberto Lara

45w↑1

im screenwritter, Robert Sapolsky classes, just change my life. Wise man. Loveyou.

BigBoiBebop

43w

So how the heck do you find what you can just “do automatically”? That seems pretty close to finding what you were meant for. Imagine if you could just do your job automatically. How do I find something like that?

J. S. Ospina

44w↑1

so overall you cant condition yourself to be a hero, because not being a hero by default soft-locks you from being one.

Ron Hooft

45w

One of the smartest people I know of.

David Wilkie

40w

Version X, legitimate empirical influences of the Mind-Body manifestation probability, and attribution of memory associations.., that keeps Scientists observing the inside-outside presence of resonant coherence-cohesion universal information In-form-ation.

Great video.

Marco Klaue

45w↑3

So... can we condition ourselves to be heroes?

Vasilis Moutzouridis

43w

so does that mean the ability to automatically jump to save a situation predicts success in life? seem unrelated to me. is the question about being a good human or about achieving ?

EQ

1y↑3

Interesting it's probably why firemen run into burning buildings and soldiers move towards gun fire. They have all been conditioned that that's the right thing to do.

The Well

1y↑3

Good point. There's even a lot of stories about people who spring into action in emergencies (e.g. car accidents) being people who trained for other emergency situations (e.g. as volunteer lifeguards). When someone is trained to be the one acting in a crisis, that can become the reflex when one suddenly arises--even if it's not exactly the same.

Peter Moretti

44w

I Love this Guy!

deathbybears

43w

True discipline is the endeavor of morality, not will power. Most people won't understand this.

Rômulo Souza Santos

44w

Thanks for the information

zagros qazy

44w

This guy looks like a hero 😂

Emily N

1y↑5

"This wonderful manipulative setup" 😂

dob 0

1y↑178

Now the interesting question is: Why are these people like that?

Seldomheardabout

1y↑12

We evolved as group creatures. Good for the goose yo.

bigmac5911

1y↑41

They were probably raised in an environment where not cheating was ingrained in them.

Pseudolewdo

1y↑16

It's the practice of giving. Being loving so that we feel good, to feel like I'm full of love.

It's as simple as being happy just so others might remember to be happy when they see you. That's one way it can start. Blessed are the meek.

Pseudolewdo

1y↑2

We have our own authority to dictate what is right in any situation. The mind often will persuade you in the opposite direction just for the enjoyment of how X(cheating) feels. Even though it also feels terrible.

If I know it's wrong but I'm thinking, do it anyways, then isn't there a higher authority than the thinking faculty?

If not, why are we not intimate with ourselves?

Jerrod Plummer

46w↑2

When they take risks others think WOooOAAh, but when we take risks they think DuMb...

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BigBoiBebop

43w

So if you feel these feelings, your just screwed? If you can’t automatically reflect temptation, what’s left for you?

Angela Hull

43w

Feelings and emotions are real and must be acknowledged and addressed. But they are not you. They are communications from your body feeding you information on how to interpret what's going on what the environment does to your body. They are for survival and the development of relationships, but over reliance on them gets you behavioral patterns that may try to avoid a specific pain, but often cause other pains. Your will still has to choose how to react to these feelings and emotions and thoughts.

sihr07

46w

So then it applies too to the ‘bad’ things we do ‘automatically’?

Александр Шумихин

37w

Eh, it's definitely not about me. My moral standards are so loose you can park whole tank brigade between what I think is absolutely unacceptable and what I think is unacceptable BUT...

Arthur Millar

40w

It's funny when determinists speak of willpower. Kind of like physicist speaking of godspeed.

Александр Шумихин

37w↑1

It's a convenient and practical illusion, because people who don't have such illusion are depressive fatalists.

zeid

37w↑1

finally I understant what they meant by Just Do It !

djayjp

42w

I don't think this is quite right. I think when one may be initially deliberating whether something may be the right course of action or not can require a lot of thought, but then once determined any subsequent act can be mostly automatic.

Hayaidesu Manga

38w

I recall like seeing a ball about to hit someone in slow motion and I should of acted instantly instead of thinking and observing

Alex Frentz

43w

Sapolsky is the GOAT

bkinstler

44w↑1

Wait — I thought Sapolsky says there’s no free will. So what’s up with impulse control and temptation? Seems pretty inconsistent — am I wrong?

IFRS Masterclass

37w

So true

Bond James

43w

It's all chemistry.

Александр Шумихин

37w

Chemistry is something we can change to a degree.

Kalas Atwater

44w

It gets easier the older you get

Memepop

43w

So if I understand it correctly, you can't change shitty people no matter how much you teach them what's right or wrong?

Roger Lewis

41w

Ok, I'm lounging around, goofing off, and then the Algorithm guilts me into doing something productive!

aksad shafin

37w

Sadly, the research references in this video has been exposed of faking data for a certain result. Great points though, with which I agree to a near full extent

john

44w

Wether intentionally or not Sopolsky is describing the 5 Aggregates of Buddhism. Simplistically speaking, when we ‘feel’ discomfort, we seek comfort in whatever the most immediate mean’s available. Forsaking long term benefit for immediate gratification. Society today defines this as Sociopathy.

Shamanic_Colonic

44w↑1

Why not transcend hero and villain and know your true self?

The Millenial Wordsmith

44w↑3

This guy has impressively thick hair

Daniel Jordan

44w↑1

It has taken us 2400 years to decide that Aristotle was right all along.

Regarding ethics at least, even if not with physics.

Timothy Acker

46w↑1

Once and for all.

Sadashivoham

45w

The most graceful person has the strongest will power!

Aryan Kazemzade

44w

Awesome

Minh Duc Pham Nguyen

44w↑1

For all the benefit of the kind of conditioning mentioned in this video I still don't agree with this method. Different people have different idea of "altruism", so normal people can easily be convinced to throw away their lives under the pretense of "altruism", and even if people act altruistically, it doesn't guarantee that the result of their action will be good. Further more, this method just seem like a more subtle form of mind control, which I cannot in good faith accept.
Altruism is important, but not at the cost of someone's life.

R3DPill-vs-Sheep

39w

thats because its not the brain of the hero its the soul

C.G. Maat

44w

More states of grace and sometimes amazing grace

fieryfalcon

46w↑1

How to develop that natural sense of willpower or grace?

jan A

43w

anyone know the title/link to the study??

The Well

43w↑1

Sure! Here's a link to the text and figures published by Joshua Greene himself: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19622733/ and here's an article from Scientific American that summarizes the study in detail: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-science-temptation/

jan A

43w

@The Well thank you!!

S P

36w

So can we condition ourselves to be heroes? Looks like the answer is "no"...

Internet Grandpa

44w↑1

Begs the question "How does it become automatic?"

Александр Шумихин

37w

By constant repetition? By internalizing it? Forcing brain run connection again and again until it will found the shortest way possible, which would be faster then your general consciousness, like how you flinch from flying into your face object faster than you form thought "oh, something is coming very fast to my face, maybe I should perform evasion maneuver?". There is reflexes we have from the very start of our life, there is reflexes we get growing up, and some of those reflexes are purely mental, not motor.

Kety

46w↑1

You don't have to be scientist to know this...

Fanks Mate

45w

Is someone trying to tell you that one does have to be a scientist to know this?

Hero Hunter

44w

“ignorance is bliss”

Mickele T

44w↑1

For a demonic species?
What does hero mean

Jaco

42w↑1

between two ferns has changed so much

Tony Zhou

46w

Train your frontal cortex

Dejan Markovic

36w

What should I type to find this in its entirety?

The Well

35w

Hi there! We have one other video with Robert, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_GpSok5VI&list=PL_B7bI1QVmJDZ-DQtRRANXsurJmSBSzrG&index=1. Enjoy!

Pure Pitch

43w

see , it does take * TRAININ * since youth to resist the easy temptation

Александр Шумихин

37w

Yeah, like you train your cat not to piss on your shoes.

Ziyad Yehia

44w

This is the benefit in Islam of something being "Haram" (Forbidden) or Fardh (Obligatory). You simply either don't do, or must do, the act in question. It's as simple as that.

Александр Шумихин

37w

Indeed, religion has practical reason to exist in society, it simply makes it stable by establishing social rules, it's another layer, on top of law enforcement and general social pressure, to prevent chaos. There is also other reasons, like unification of people and giving them sense of purpose, but they are not related to the topic.

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