
“Because individual thinking and group thinking are so intertwined, it’s hard to keep track of the boundaries. If you ask people to estimate the percentage of their contribution to a group project, they take advantage of the uncertainty by giving themselves more credit than they deserve. The total estimate reliably exceeds 100 percent! … This tendency to overestimate our individual contributions can lead to conflict, especially when it results in devaluing the contributions of other group members.”
David Klein highlights two reasons for this fear. One could be that we live in perpetual terror of being disappointed by our lives, indeed, by life itself. We know intuitively that life in the here-and-now is life’s ultimate — life cannot get any realer t…
… in your face. It’s not spread widely, and certainly not by people who are forwarding it to object. It’s subtle content that is factually accurate, biased in presentation and framing, and encouraging folks to make dangerous conclusions that are not explicitly spelled out in the content itself. That’s the beauty of provocative speech: It makes people think not simply by shoving an idea down t…