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because Nashville is undefeated hi nice to meet you nice to meet you I'm either
so Ethan Klein of h3h3 productions and the h3 podcast just released a video discussing all the
people out there who are refusing to self quarantine but the way he went
about it isn't so effective so if you were like me and you're hoping to slow
down the spread of this thing we need to understand a little bit of psychology
and get into their minds and figure out productive ways to get people to stop
running around in public so come along with me
and we're gonna get inside the mind of people who refuse to self quarantine
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is
all about mental health so if you're someone like me was actively trying to
improve your mental and emotional well-being make sure you subscribe and
ring that notification bell because when it comes to this type of crisis going on
or other situations going on in your life there is a right way and a wrong
way to talk to people if you hope to motivate them to do something alright
so Ethan Klein just came out with his video on the h3h3 productions the main
channel what she barely uploads to anymore
and it's called the morons of the situation I'm trying to stay monetize so
bear with me as I dance around certain words alright and he goes through and he
shows a lot of clips and pictures and things like that and he's not well trust
me he's not necessarily wrong and I want to make it very very clear the people
out there who are refusing to self quarantine
are extremely selfish and they're not thinking about humanity as a whole and
that's something difficult to deal with but I just want to put it this way when
we're trying to figure out how to talk to people about this stuff and get them
to make the right decisions like I just want you to switch roles real quick and
ask yourself when's the last time that you wanted to do something when someone
called you a moron or an idiot or insulted your intelligence in another
way you probably didn't want to sell by understanding a little bit of psychology
and getting into their minds maybe we could figure out how to encourage people
to do the right thing and I really think I really think that the government would
do much better if not only did we bring in more scientists but we brought in
more psychologists to explain a little bit of human nature okay so we're gonna
break this down into a few parts but the first thing that we need to talk about
is human agency all right agency is one of the most important factors of our
lives so what what is human agency okay so human agency is the capacity for
human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world it is
normally contrasted to natural forces which are causes involving only
unthinking deterministic processes so in this world of just so much chaos and so
many things outside of our control we crave that control and this agency this
control greatly affects our mental health so in the best-selling book lost
connections by Johann Hari which is one of my favorite favorite favorite books
on depression he discusses some studies they did about people being depressed at
work okay the people who are the most depressed at work have little to no
control over their jobs alright you might recognize this if you are
miserable at your job take a second to think like how much control do you have
over your job some people are just doing this tedious monotonous work day in and
day out and they have no control no creativity over the work that they
produce right then there are also people who just have a boss who does not let
them you know try to express new ideas and beat
these people are typically miserable for example I love my job
I get to be very creative and all that and a quick tip for those of you who do
not have that kind of control or creativity in your job do something on
the side all right have your own hobbies where you get to
be creative like if nothing else I have my youtube channel I have my writing and
all that other stuff so find a way to be creative you will be a little bit
happier because we all crave control the next thing we need to talk about is
internal versus external locus of control so professor of positive
psychology over at Harvard University with all them smart people I like his
name is shawn Achor and he released a book called the happiness advantage in
this book he talks about internal versus external locus of control people with an
external locus of control they believe that their actions have little impact on
outcomes all right these people are more anxious more depress overall not very
happy with their life then you have people with an internal locus of control
those with an internal locus of control they believe that the steps they take
the actions they make the decisions they make do have an impact on the outcome so
those people with an internal locus of control since they feel that control
they are less anxious less depressed and they're happier so finally when we're
talking about human agency and control there is a famous famous study alright
it is cited in a bunch of psychological books that I read a study they did at a
nursing home okay so in this nursing home they separated the old folks into
two different groups in one group they gave them a bunch of different options
okay they said hey like what movies do you want to watch what activities do you
want to do here's a plant that you get to take care of all that stuff right
give them extreme amounts of control over their lives in the nursing home
then they took the other group and they give them a bunch of different new
activities and everything but these people had no choice whatsoever and what
was going to happen alright so they did an 18-month study
following up not only were the people in the first group happier and healthier
but they lived longer in the group that had less control those people were
Satur sicker and they had a higher mortality rate okay so think about that
for a second our sense of agency is directly related to not only our mental
health but our physical health as well all right so remember I was telling you
like when's the last time that you wanted to do anything when someone
called you an idiot or a moron so now we're going to talk about the psychology
of reactance we need to understand that we are naturally inclined to do the
opposite of what other people tell us all right as a way to maintain that
control that agency we don't like being told what to do alright so as you can
see in this figure this is a little bit of what it looks like all right so our
importance of freedom the magnitude of the threat to that freedom that creates
this strong reactance okay so although I it saddens me and it
breaks my heart that those Florida Spring Breakers are not thinking about
all the people they could possibly in fact and then you also have the
government to like hey we need to get people back to work they don't mind if
they get sick like it's not about that it is about getting other people sick
alright so here's the thing the most successful people in sales and marketing
they understand this they understand reactance they understand that people
don't like being told what to do okay obviously this is much higher in younger
people and we'll talk about that a little bit more in a second but people
in sales and marketing they realize that in order to get people to do what you
want them to do you have to make them believe it's their own idea that is how
you get past the reaction all right so although ethan klein of h3h3 productions
had a couple of yucks in his video i would say that she was joking but if you
look closely at her face she does not crack a smile this woman is ready for
what are the kids calling it the boomer Doomer the boomer groomer the boomer
remover yes the boomer remover I'm getting dangerously close to being a
boomer here myself so it's going to have little too
no impact because he is telling people what to do and I know it's hard I know
it's hard not to just want to tell people what to do and then get angry
about it but check this out people don't even like being told what to do when it
can benefit them when it could benefit others or can benefit the entire planet
as a whole one of the most famous marketing
strategies that was ever done was with the Toyota Prius
all right the Prius came out it is this environmentally friendly hybrid less
pollution and everything like that now you see them all over the world that and
Tesla's and everything like that right but here's a thing we're telling people
like hey buy this car you'll help save the environment right people aren't
gonna go for that so what Toyota did with their marketing
campaign they were able to get people to want to buy the Prius to save the
environment because those people feel like they really want to save the
environment okay what happens after that once you get a massive amount of people
doing something more people are likely to do it okay as much as we love to say
like oh yeah if everybody was jumping off the bridge I wouldn't do it
most of us would a lot of us follow suit because we don't want to be seen as
outside of the tribe okay so think about that for a second how do we get people
to do what we want to do right but how do we make them feel like it's their own
idea so one of the other most successful campaigns out there was when it came to
an anti-smoking campaign for teenagers okay so the the rate of teen smoking is
high especially with vaping coming out but in the 90s it was really really bad
so this dude chuck wolf came along alright and he saw that just telling
kids not to smoke wasn't working because again high reactance in younger people
younger people really don't want to be told what to do okay one of my favorite
neuroscientist dr. dan Siegel he talks about that during that portion of brain
development teens are trying to distance themselves away from adults just because
they're naturally try to become their own person to become
more individual so what was Chuck wolf gonna do the first thing that he did was
he held a team tobacco summit all right he talked to teens and he asked some
question he said why do you guys smoke why what did you smoke you know he asked
him a bunch of questions and got a bunch of input so he took that and he combined
that with the psychology of reactance and he started to ask himself how can we
get teens to not smoke when they don't like being told what to do so here's
what tricky little Chuck did well Chuck ended up doing was he created a bunch of
different ads where one of them for example was to teens calling up a
magazine publisher calls him up and they're like hey you know smokings bad
right and like really harms teens and the guys like yeah and he's like okay so
well will you stop running these advertisements so guys like no they're
like why not and the advertising agent or the publisher he's like well because
we like making money all right and that was one of the most successful eyes out
there you want to know why because teens were then being told that the
corporation's Big Tobacco wanted them to smoke so you know what a lot of teens
started doing they started not smoking because they
knew that's what Big Tobacco wanted them to do and Chuck Wolfe became this famous
dude in marketing and it was actually the beginning of the whole truth
campaign okay so the last tip I'll give you is this therapeutic technique that's
often used I knew a lot of therapists who use them when I was working in the
drug and alcohol rehab center it's called motivational interviewing okay
also known as mi this is a form of therapy where you ask a series of
questions so the person comes to their own conclusion okay when they come to
their own conclusion they feel like they have that control they feel like they
have that agency all right so some examples of motivational interviewing
why do you want to go out what's the benefit of going out will it affect
anyone you know how will you going out affect other people right and these are
just questions you're not telling them and when you're doing this you got to
make that you're coming at it with curiosity
like wanting to understand okay because when you come abrasive that reactance
kicks in okay now check this out when it comes to
motivational interviewing it might not work right away okay but what you have
successfully done is get the person to start thinking about their actions about
their behaviors about their thoughts right so that person you're talking to
they might go out they might do something right but you've planted that
seed in their head so as they're getting ready as they're getting going out they
start asking themselves those question why am i going out why do I want to go
out will this affect anybody I know will it affect other people will it hurt
the community right now that they're asking themselves that question
they now have control over that situation and you are much more likely
to get them to do what you originally wanted them to do alright so again like
this stuff's really important to me because I talk to a lot of people who
are addicted to drugs addicted to alcohol and just like I don't know how
many of you out there are recovering addicts or currently addicts like those
types of interventions where people say you're destroyed or available you stop
doing this you're ruining your life right people don't want to do what
they're being told so how do you get that person to want to stay sober right
when people don't want to go to therapy how do you get people to want to go to
therapy you see what I'm saying so I know II think line of h3h3 productions
had good intentions but calling people idiots morons and all that other kind of
stuff you are just increasing reactants they are not gonna want to do what you
want them to do based on human motivation and why we do what we do okay
so understand that this psychology might help you with your friends or your
family members who are currently not behaving in the interest of the entire
planet alright so anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this
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