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> A student reveals how, at one team-building exercise that involved working on a plan to survive subarctic temperatures, “Our action plan hinged on what the m
by pelasaco 4y ago
> A student reveals how, at one team-building exercise that involved working on a
plan to survive subarctic temperatures, “Our action plan hinged on what the most vocal people suggested.
> When the less vocal people put out ideas, those ideas were discarded. The ideas that were rejected would have kept us alive and out of trouble, but they were dismissed because of the conviction with which the more vocal people suggested their ideas.”
That's like our society discuss "the most important topics" today. There are some groups screaming some agenda, which 99% doesn't care, but because they are loud and everywhere, they are able to enforce some crazy ideas
- LewisVerstappen 4y agoYeah agreed, super important thing that most people don’t realize It was well covered in Taleb - https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
- francisofascii 4y agoYeah, it sounds a little like herd mentality, where people make emotional rather than rational decisions. If a few people are loud and screaming for us to do X, people are influenced to do X. It could be part of our survival mechanism.