Brooks: Evolutionary Mismatch Makes Online Hostility Trigger Physical Threat Responses
Arthur Brooks · Harvard Professor: There Is a FORMULA to Happiness | Arthur Brooks · Feb 26, 2025 · at 1:05:42
Arthur Brooks discusses the mismatch between human biological wiring and digital platforms like X (Twitter) during a discussion with Codie Sanchez.
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“This is a mismatch between our biological, our evolutionary environment and our technological environment. We were not built for Twitter. We were built for the Savannah, and our body still acts as if it were, and so all of these threats, the only way you can combat this, number one, is by checking out, by saying I'm not going to play, or is through understanding and self-management. That's the only way you can deal with this, otherwise you will be miserable if you're in public life.”
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