Who The Future Will Belong To
The Two Traits That Will Define Us Most And What Will Determine Our Fate
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Who The Future Will Belong To
The Two Traits That Will Define Us Most And What Will Determine Our Fate
We live in an Interesting Time.
People are worried about the Future.
For Good Reason.
Though, it is Not Necessarily something "New" to the Human Condition.
We've Always Worried about the Future.
That Will Never Change.
But, there are some New Developments that make the Future more Uncertain.
The Developments in Artificial Intelligence...
The Uses and Misuses of Technology...
The Purposeful Use of Misinformation toward Deceitful Ends...
Governments Throwing Power Around in Questionable Ways...
All of it is Enough to Make Us Wonder...
What is Going to Happen?
How will the Future Turn Out?
Will We Be Ok?
Well...
We Never Fully Know the Answers to these Questions because there are Untold Variables that Exist in Life which We have Little to No Control Over...
Such is Life...
But What I Do Know...
Is that the Future is Going to Belong to People with Two Traits.
For Better or For Worse.
These Two Traits Will Define Us the Most.
In Truth, these Two Traits Work Cohesively when Used Together.
Unfortunately...
Most People have Neither.
But they are Within All of Our Grasps.
What are the Two Traits?
The First is the Ability to Think Critically.
This is the Ability to "Not" Just Intake Information...
But Determine the Likelihood of Useability...
To Discern Good Information from Bad Information...
And to Find the Truth Between All the Biased Ideas, Thoughts, And Opinions that Exist.
The Truth is that Few People Think.
They Do No Real Thinking in their Lives.
I Deeply Hate Saying That...
But, Unfortunately, I have Seen It Far Too Often to Deny It.
I have Seen Extremely Intelligent People...
Fail to Use Critical Thinking.
Instead of Using their Brains...
They Only Listen to Others...
Allow Others to Tell them What to Believe...
Without Doing Any Research Themselves...
And this is a Problem.
We have Seen this Problem in Social Media for a Long Time...
And We are Seeing the Same Problem Intensified with the Use of Artificial Intelligence.
People who Use AI to "Think" for Them...
Have been Seen to Score Lower on Tests of Critical Thinking.
MIT recently published a study that showed when Students used AI Tools to Think for them...
Those Students had the Lowest Brain Engagement and Cognitive Effort Over Time.
Now, are these Students "Less Intelligent"?
No.
They just are Allowing AI to Think "For" Them...
Which is a Gigantic Problem...
Especially when AI is Wrong...
Which it Frequently Is.
That is Not Even taking into Account All the Levels of Bias that AI Inherently has...
Or which is Built Into It Purposefully...
Nor does this take into Account AI's Inherent Need to be Sycophantic.
What will the End Result of this Be?
Those Who Fail to Think Critically...
Will Be at the Complete Mercy of Whoever is Controlling the Information they See.
Now, I would "Love" for the Hands that Control the Information We Receive to be Unbiased and Focused on the Truth...
Unfortunately, I have Seen this Control Abused Far Too Many Time in My Own Life...
And Far Too Often Throughout All of Known History...
To Believe that it Will Happen Like That.
If You Fail to Think Critically...
You Will be Controlled by Individuals Who Do Not Care for You.
Now...
What is the Second Trait?
The Second Trait that Will Define Us Most in the Future...
Is Our Health.
Now...
Interestingly, there is a Feedback Loop that Begins to Happen Here.
When Our Health is Compromised...
It Directly Impacts Our Ability to Think Clearly.
We Know this for a Fact from the Research around Flow States, Burnout, and IQ Research.
When Our Health is Terrible...
So is Our Ability to Think...
Which means something Very Simple...
We are More Prone to Being Manipulated when We are Unhealthy.
Can You See the Vicious Cycle that is Being Created Here?
If You Fail to Think Critically...
You're More At Risk to Engage in Behaviors that Compromise Your Health...
Making You Unable to Think Critically...
Making You More At Risk of Being Manipulated Further.
This is the Same Tactic that Tobacco Companies used when having Doctors Recommend Tobacco for "Health"...
This is the Same Tactic that Food Companies are using Today to Convince Us their Foods are "Healthy" when we "Clearly" Know they are Not...
This is the Same Tactic that the Pharmaceutical Industry is using Today to Convince Us their Medications are for "Health", when "Clearly" they are Healing Nothing...
This is the Same Tactic that Many Cults Utilize to Control the Behavior of their Members.
When this is Combined with the Sunk Cost Fallacy, and Our Struggle as Humans to Accept when We've been Deceived...
It is a Perfect Recipe to be Controlled...
And Remain Trapped within that Control...
Just Like the Fleas in a Flea Circus that No Longer Believe they can Escape their Fates and Perform for Others to Watch.
Learned Helplessness at its Worst.
Without Our Health...
Without Our Ability to Think Critically...
Either by Choice or by Psychophysiology...
Then We are At Risk of Being Manipulated...
And the World has Plenty of Individuals who are Ready to Weaponize that Risk Against Us.
Here's the Reality We Must Come to Terms With...
The Future Will Belong to Those Who can Think Critically and Have their Health.
Period.
But...
This Does Not Answer the Important Questions...
Can We Trust Those Individuals?
Will those Individuals Look Our for Our Best Interests?
Will they Be People of Wisdom?
Will they Have Morals?
Will there Be Enough Good Individuals to Overcome those with Horrible Intentions?
The Truth Is...
We Do Not Know.
We Would Like to "Believe" It...
But there are No Guarantees.
But Maybe it is the Wrong Way to Think About This...
Maybe the Better Question Is...
Do You Truly Want to Leave this Up to Luck?
Or...
Do You Want to Determine Your Own Future?
If You want to Determine Your Own Future...
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How do we Own Our Future?
Make Sure that We are Not Controlled to Our Detriment?
The first thing…
Be Wary of Conspiracy Theory.
Often, where people Go Completely Wrong is that…
Instead of Moving Toward True Health and Critical Thinking…
They Turn to Others who “Claim” to be Distributing True Health and Critical Thinking…
While Simultaneously Telling Individuals “Never” to Trust “Opposing” Institutions.
All You’re Doing is Trading One Source of Manipulation for Another Source of Manipulation.
Here’s the Reality…
There is Good and Bad in Most Things…
Rarely are there “Truly” Terrible People…
Most People are “Trying” to Do Well and are Just Misguided.
This is Where Critical Thinking becomes “Very” Important.
Usually, the Truth lies “Between” Two Seeming “Opposite” Sides.
But “You” have to Decipher Between what is “Worth” Keeping…
And What is Too Skewed or Biased.
There are some people who I Trust for Information…
But Even with those Sources, sometimes I See their Bias Play Out and I am Wary of that Bias.
Even with what “I” Say, You should be Wary.
“I” am Not Perfect, and there are Many Things I am in the Process of Learning.
Do “Not” Trade One Taskmaster for Another…
Be Sure to Become that Master and, further, Sage of Your “Own” Fate.
Now, with that out of the way…
It’s time to look at the Psychophysiological Factors to Pay Attention To.
Let’s Dive In…
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