0:00:00 - 0:00:23 I want to speak about our disproportionate ability to do good in this world in little ways. I think that most people, most normal people vastly underestimate the good that they can do. Um I just wanna give a few specific examples but let your mind run with this and think about your own situation. Um 0:00:22 - 0:00:43 Just to jump on something in particular when I go and look at the, the analytics on the videos that I make, which they're displayed there when you upload things. So it's easy to see. You don't really have to dig into it. I noticed that that there seems to be a person and I don't know who it is because 0:00:42 - 0:01:08 it's anonymous who goes through and thumbs down pretty much all my videos, which I don't care, but I know that that has an impact on the algorithm, right? And so maybe there's a video that has, let's say 400 views and maybe that video has um let's say nine thumbs up. Well, this one person can come along 0:01:08 - 0:00:00 , give a thumbs down and basically outweigh hundreds of people that may have watched the video and uh gotten something positive out of it. And why is that? Well, it's actually, it's human nature for us to be much more motivated towards the negative than the positive. This might be a surprise to you. 0:00:00 - 0:01:53 But it, it's true. You can look this up in the, in the uh research, literature, things like loss. They're multiple times more powerful for motivating people than improvement. So if I were to say to you something like, well, if you do this thing, I'll give you a dollar. But if you do, don't do this thing 0:01:52 - 0:02:13 , I will take away from you 33 cents. So you might think that humans would say, well, give me the dollar. That's, that's three times more, right? But it turns out that the loss of 33 cents would, would be a stronger motivator for almost every person. And so the manifestation of this and I've spoken about 0:02:13 - 0:02:37 this before. So, so those of us who have taught in, in classes where you're reviewed or anyone who's had a job where you have evaluations knows that it's much easier for someone to notice the bad than it is for them to notice and say something about the good. And so in the systems that we have today 0:02:36 - 0:03:03 , whether it be online media or work or really anything, it's so easy to stay silent about the good and the effect of this is to boost the voice of those who focus on the negative. Now, feedback is good and uh correction is a wonderful thing. It's absolutely essential, but we all need to know and, and 0:03:02 - 0:03:28 , and I guess come to terms with the fact there's a substantial portion of the population that has viewpoints that are detrimental. And so when good people do nothing, you're boosting the voice of evil people. No, I'm not necessarily saying that someone that thumbs down my videos is an evil person. That's 0:03:28 - 0:03:53 not my point here. It's a much bigger picture in, in the world in your world. However, it looks whatever you value, say more and do more to support the good because when you go around thinking well, well, everyone enjoys this, everyone gets something out of it. It's just not true. And if the good people 0:03:53 - 0:04:17 don't stand up for what they see as good, it boosts the power of the bad people. So look at your own life and I'm talking about in, in every way, anything you value anything that's good. Double down on that speak about how good it is and orient your resources towards how good it is. If you value your 0:04:16 - 0:04:39 Children spend time with them, spend money on them in wise ways, give them a kick in the pants when they need it. Don't just ignore them, you know, put down the phone face to face and it goes that way for everything of value. If you find a book that you like leave a positive review, if you see a video 0:04:38 - 0:00:00 you like hit thumbs up. It takes a quarter of a second and it really helps share it with people again. Like if, if my content doesn't fit the bill, it doesn't matter, go find something that does whatever floats your boat, make sure you talk about it, share it with people, you know, donate to causes, 0:00:00 - 0:05:15 whatever the case may be, spend time with kids do things that you value, spend your time on it because there are voices out there, there are influences out there that are working against the good. And if you do nothing, you just boost their power.