There’s a great video by Jonathan Haidt about the stories we tell ourselves

He calls it “Three Stories about Capitalism” and I’ve excerpted the really good parts in this post, and explain it in terms of his moral foundations theory:

His books The Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind helped me understand cooperation and competition better than any other single source. He’s really good at correcting misconceptions like Dawkin’s “selfish gene” hypothesis and Pinker’s description of people as a “blank slate.” These theories are so wrong that it would be an injustice to call them anything less than dangerous.

But Haidt admits that facts are not what change minds. Stories do.

If you’re interested in more reading and knowledge sharing, you might want to join our LinkedIn group called Self-Actual Engineering.

Thomas P Seager, PhD

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