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Transcript
@arthurdoler Arthur Doler Resources: Boring details about me are at
https://arthurdoler.com @arthurdoler Arthur Doler Resources: Boring details about me are at https://arthurdoler.com
@arthurdoler Why hello there.
@arthurdoler When people ask what I do I always just
tell them I solve problems
@arthurdoler tag urself I’m the two dead fish in a
bowl
@arthurdoler “Beer” brand beer. For when you need to know
it’s an actual beer.
@arthurdoler Not pictured – approximately 321514 other crises
@arthurdoler I took some artistic license – SARS COV2 is
not a Langolier
@arthurdoler Thus began The Case of the Missing Toilet Paper
@arthurdoler Dun dun…. Dun dun…. Dun dun dun dun dun
dun dun dun dun dun d
@arthurdoler DUN DUN DAAAAAAAAA
@arthurdoler The person in the bathroom has been thoughtfully omitted
@arthurdoler “How did you catch soup on fire?”
@arthurdoler Just… eating 2-day old Orange Chicken on my Peloton
while binging Tiger King
@arthurdoler “I totally think Carol’s husband is tiger food.” “Why
are you here?!”
@arthurdoler Or tolerated it, in the case of most cats
@arthurdoler Wearing a thin path into the carpet
@arthurdoler “… where is all the cream cheese?”
@arthurdoler “WHERE IS ALL THE CREAM CHEESE?!”
@arthurdoler “What if there’s never any cream cheese again?”
@arthurdoler “All I wanted was some cream cheese for my
bagel…”
@arthurdoler Not exactly comfortable, but your code will smell nice
@arthurdoler One weird trick your chiropractor will hate
@arthurdoler Movin’ on up! ♫
@arthurdoler The Rock of Damocles
@arthurdoler Your brain and you The Walled Garden & the
Dark Forest Your brain during the pandemic Surviving the fire Handling the next fire that comes along A roadmap for the next
@arthurdoler Thoughtbags may be larger than depicted in this image
@arthurdoler “Thanks, that’s very helpful.”
@arthurdoler "Trauma and Shock“, American Psychological Association
@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
@arthurdoler WHEN YOU GET INDIGESTION YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE YOU
FAILED “O my own stomach, why dost thou attack me?”
@arthurdoler YOU DON’T FEEL BROKEN WHEN SOMEONE ELSE GETS INDIGESTION
AND YOU DON’T Unless you really like the flavor of antacids, I guess?
@arthurdoler Work being the most important part of your life,
of course.
@arthurdoler lol, lmao
@arthurdoler #1 champion organ
@arthurdoler This is the talk where I draw a lot
of headbands apparently
@arthurdoler More like the ego-centric bias, am I right?!
@arthurdoler Pets who want fed also count
@arthurdoler Rough measurements of the meat sac in your cranium
@arthurdoler EnterpriseCognitionFactoryFactoryBean
@arthurdoler THIS IDEA IS CALLED THE EXTENDED MIND The Extended
Mind, Annie Murphy Paul – also Daniel Dennett and Andy Clark
@arthurdoler Miyake & Shah, 1999
@arthurdoler Miyake & Shah, 1999
@arthurdoler Just & Carpenter, 1992
@arthurdoler You Are Not So Smart podcast, Ep 184 @arthurdoler
@arthurdoler The topiary rabbit does not represent anything in particular
@arthurdoler
@arthurdoler THIS IS THE INTENTIONAL SELF The Blindspots Between Us,
Gleb Tsipursky
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler the forest is very spoopy
@arthurdoler THIS IS THE AUTONOMOUS SELF The Blindspots Between Us,
Gleb Tsipursky
@arthurdoler Binoculars only included with the “Deluxe” brain model
@arthurdoler “Thanks! Don’t mind if I do!”
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy Wilson
@arthurdoler Pronin, 2009
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler This is just an example! Avocados are great!
Please don’t hurt me :c
@arthurdoler Thinking Fast & Slow, Kahneman
@arthurdoler Wilson & Bar-Anan, 2008
@arthurdoler Wilson & Bar-Anan, 2008
@arthurdoler The citations for this are vast
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler mmm... tacos.
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler ERROR: UNEXPECTED ELEPHANT IN PATH
@arthurdoler Why We Snap, Fields
@arthurdoler Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman
@arthurdoler Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman
@arthurdoler An ominous sound, at best
@arthurdoler So much for reading your book…
@arthurdoler Ow ow ow ow ow ow
@arthurdoler The symptoms of this condition vary widely
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler *hacker voice* you messed with the wrong wolves
@arthurdoler Donald Norman, Emotional Design
@arthurdoler Donald Norman, Emotional Design
@arthurdoler Donald Norman, Emotional Design
@arthurdoler STRESS DIMINISHES YOUR ABILITY TO THINK AND TO CONTROL
YOUR ATTENTION Liston, McEwen, and Casey, 2009
@arthurdoler Like a toddler having a tantrum
@arthurdoler If you find wolves emitting smilies, please back away
slowly
@arthurdoler WE SEEK COMFORT WHEREVER WE CAN GET IT, WHEREVER
WE’VE GOTTEN IT IN THE PAST Even in some not-so-nice places
@arthurdoler Even when stressed, please do not stab anyone over
toilet paper.
@arthurdoler “Now I can kill any germ I see coming!
... Wait a minute…”
@arthurdoler Jansen, Nguyen, Karpitsky, & Mettenleiter, 1995
@arthurdoler Surely this won’t be so bad. Might as well
make the best of it…
@arthurdoler Citation on this one is literally everyone’s lived experience
@arthurdoler It happens over and over and over
@arthurdoler WE STARTED TO ENCOUNTER: A lack of forward progress
Emotional problems Physical health problems Diagnosable mental problems As the indigestion spills out into the rest of our existence
@arthurdoler I’m assuming it doesn’t suck as I’m giving this
talk, which seems like bad odds
@arthurdoler Stop, drop, and roll, maybe?
@arthurdoler It’s distressing to do but it hurts less than
constantly failing
@arthurdoler Ha ha ha ha no, but seriously
@arthurdoler Are the murder hornets still out there? Does anyone
know?
@arthurdoler SEEK CONTROL IN LIMITED, REASONABLE FASHION, EVEN IF IT’S
NOT “USEFUL” Key word here is “reasonable”
@arthurdoler Maybe you really like neon green
@arthurdoler It’d be a super depressing talk if we couldn’t.
@arthurdoler WE ABSOLUTELY CAN. You can believe me, because I’m
a Thought Leader.
@arthurdoler Frazier, et al., 2009.
@arthurdoler STRATEGIES FOR RECOVERY Managing the path back to being
okay
@arthurdoler Time to give a talk inside another talk!
@arthurdoler FIND AN ACTIVITY WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE
YOU MAKE Give and Take, Grant
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler It’s essential to do, but… good luck!
@arthurdoler Or at least returning to some kind of baseline
@arthurdoler RECONNECT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS! … assuming you want
to!
@arthurdoler “I have specific comfort needs.” “So, let’s talk about
that…”
@arthurdoler COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT) Retraining the Conscious/Autonomous dynamic
@arthurdoler This slide sponsored by Flava Flav
@arthurdoler Bubble-gum flavored drugs were the worst.
@arthurdoler Just tell them a Thought Leader said it was
okay.
@arthurdoler Make sure to tell your boss I said so,
too.
@arthurdoler Or at least find a direction for that path.
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler “Oh no, not my remote!”
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler Larcom, Rauch, & Willems, 2015
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler I hope you didn’t have to teach your
family what Discord was…
@arthurdoler @arthurdoler Not the easiest choice in the world
@arthurdoler It is most definitely coming for us.
@arthurdoler Like the alarm clocks, remember?
@arthurdoler EXTERNAL SYSTEMS HELP YOU FREE UP WORKING MEMORY Paas
& van Merriënboer, 2020
@arthurdoler Inner peace and enlightenment not guaranteed.
@arthurdoler Oh look, another headband!
@arthurdoler Uplifting!
@arthurdoler Or any combination of the above
@arthurdoler WHAT CAN YOU SOLVE BEFOREHAND, SO YOU DON’T NEED
TO THINK ABOUT IT? Think of it like spinning up other instances
@arthurdoler LET THE DARK HARVEST BEGIN
@arthurdoler Just livin’ in a monopoly house
@arthurdoler Apologies to whichever poor artist did the original for
me to butcher
@arthurdoler This is my least-favorite slide in the talk
@arthurdoler Astonishingly convenient!
@arthurdoler LEARN PLAY CONNECT GROW A checklist for resiliency
@arthurdoler Just don’t breathe in the dust, it’s probably toxic
@arthurdoler The blueprints for success, when everything else is on
fire
@arthurdoler Arthur Doler My website is probably still https://arthurdoler.com Resources: