IMPACTivism: Get better at doing good Logan Sullivan - Advocate, seeker, writer, humanitarian

Humanitarians believe vulnerable human beings deserve not to suffer and that the powerful should be prevented from harming or exploiting them. But what if we replace 'human' being with 'sentient' being?

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Peter Singer's famous pond thought experiment threw me in to philosophical dilemma over a decade ago. My mind urged me fish for any reason why it's conclusions were invalid, for any escape from accepting its inconvenient implications. I never found one.

Longterm fulfillment lays at the intersection of joy and high impact. This episode will help you find the ideal intersection, and understand it. We also discuss push-decisions vs. pull-decisions and our global circles vs. social circles.

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Self-regarding actions improve our own wellbeing, which incidentally rubs off on those around us. Other-regarding actions directly target others' wellbeing, and we find fulfillment in turn. In this episode, we explore how kidnapping all the world leaders for a magic tea ceremony would only be the second best way to solve all the world's problems at once -- logistically unlikely to work out. And the very best is even less likely to happen in our lifetime. So, in knowing the difference between those actions that impact our direct social circles and those actions that impact the wider world, we can focus on more pragmatic approaches.

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"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." When unaware of our natural Scope Insensitivity Bias, individual, relatable humans become masses, and masses become abstract, unrelatable statistics.

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Selective perception allows our expectations or existing frames of mind to affect how we perceive inputs. If we aspire to impact positive change, we ought to seek the most accurate model of the world we're capable of perceiving?
Unfortunately, we're wired to seek potentially inaccurate, yet convenient models of the world instead, the type that does not threaten our current way of life or require from us energy from us. So why don't some people believe in science? Well, selective perception is part of the answer.

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