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The indifference threshold, then, is the point at which we feel something is worth the effort. As Wilson came to see, bored, spoiled people have a very high indifference threshold; people with a strong sense of purpose have a much lower one. A god, we could say, would have no threshold at all: someone like this would find everything worth the effort and would never feel bored.
Beyond the Robot
Gary Lachman
It’s The Five Minute Favor:
One of my personal favorites is probably Adam Rifkin’s idea of the “Five-Minute Favor” (if you can do something for someone that will take less than five minutes, just do it.) A lot of people look at the idea of helping others and say, “Gosh, that’s going to be time consuming, or exhausting, or put me at risk of being exploited.” I think that Adam’s idea enables us to a sense of, “What if I just took a couple minutes every day to try to help someone in a way that a small commitment to me, but could be of large benefit to them?”
10 Networking Tips That Will Make You a Success
Eric Barker
It took a few days for my baseline optimism to return. My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return. And frankly, cumulatively the events in my life up to that point gave me a sensation of being exempt from the normal laws of chance, and that is probably the source of my optimism. If you need a more scientific-sounding explanation, perhaps I’m just bad at estimating the odds of things, or perhaps I have selective memory and forget the things that don’t work out. No matter how you explain the perception, it leaves room for hope, and hope has a lot of practical utility. I don’t need to know why my long shots seem to come in more often than my faulty brain expects; I just need to perceive—accurately or not—that it happens.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
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