Scientific Definition
Substance dependence distorts judgment and accelerates decline.
Plain-English Definition
Substance dependence distorts judgment and accelerates decline.
Feynman Explanation
Munger's warning: the first step is the only easy one.
Core Principle
Substance dependence distorts judgment and accelerates decline.
Mechanisms
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Substance dependence distorts judgment and accelerates decline.
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Wellbeing infrastructure is risk management.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Munger's warning: the first step is the only easy one.
Examples
- Founder burnout patterns enabled by stimulant misuse.
- Wellbeing infrastructure is risk management.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Build cultures that make help-seeking safe.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Build cultures that make help-seeking safe.
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Resolving doubt by jumping to a conclusion — any conclusion — quickly.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.
We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.
Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.
Presuming a purposeful actor behind events that may have no actor at all.
What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
A finite set of well-defined instructions for solving a problem or performing a computation.
Every model simplifies reality; some are still useful.
Researchers favor conclusions aligned with their school, team, or sponsor.
Using personal stories or isolated examples instead of evidence.
Claiming something is true or better because most people believe it.