The Societal Trap
?A young bloke said to me: the world is doomed why would I even bother helping, it’s pointless.
It’s fascinating how a person’s identity, and experiences can shape their world view. Where we can all look at the same colour, but still call it blue, green, or purple.
I’ve realised over the years that people don’t pursue the truth, they seek to confirm what they already know.
The truth is subjective for the most part anyways, so why not choose a reality that suits your best interest?
For those thinking I’ve lost it, you should check out the work of Cognitive Psychologist Donald D. Hoffman:
“We encounter a startling “Fitness-Beats-Truth” (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.”
You see it with eye witnesses too, where despite them seeing a criminal with a green shirt, the social pressure of others saying the shirt was a different colour, changes their own perception.
Scary right?
It makes you wonder, how much of you is you, and how much of you is the environment that shapes you?
It’s an important consideration when you think about the contributing factors that led to your world view.
Was it a teacher that didn’t believe in you, a mother that was emotionally distant, or a friend that betrayed you?
Where just by a person emulating similar traits to them, it evokes the same emotional response you had as a child.
I think in life it’s important to unpack the experiences that led to you feeling the way that you do.
It’s true there are people experiencing genuine hardship, but, for the most part, the biggest contributor to a person’s unhappiness, is them.
I worry that by vilifying the government, society, or any particular group of people, we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing.
Our attention should instead go inward, as well as to the connections that give us the most joy.
Where by creating an environment internally, and externally, that makes you feel like you belong, as well as feel loved, you’ll start developing a life and world that you want to be apart of.???
Stewart Forsyth is an organisational psychologist - that helps individuals, teams and businesses lift performance and enhance organisational well-being.
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A doctor, a health insurance agent and a lab technician walk into a bar. Who pays the tab?
The patient.
This is no laughing matter – THAT is the point of health insurance.
As New Zealanders, we benefit hugely from our public health care system - A & E department bears testament to that and, it’s free.
However, the waiting times are horrendous and being so short-staffed has an enormous impact on the services hospitals are expected to offer.
It stands to reason that a system that is overused and under resourced, and has been operating at this level for some time now, is unable to offer optimum service.
Why health insurance?
'A healthy man has a thousand wishes – a sick man has one’.
Going privately to specialists for consultations / treatments or surgical procedures is a completely different proposal; the benefit is being able to choose when to undergo the surgery pretty much when it suits you (rather than be put on the list for the government run system) can be tempered with the amount a private patient has to pay for this privilege it is not cheap!
The usual way to mitigate this expense realistically is to take out medical insurance – and the cost of that might be enough to make you feel sick!
Regaling others with the benefits of any sort of health advice is helpful – like eating fruit – especially dried – it’s called ‘raisin’ awareness …
Seriously, Heath Insurance policies vary immensely with different levels of options to consider - the monthly / yearly premiums can vary, how comprehensive the cover is, and what is the excess option you select, for a start.
This is where you need to do your homework as different companies offer different benefits; some suiting your circumstances more than others. These options can also include paying for eye tests, replacement glasses, hearing aids etc.
As far as the health insurance companies go, they too have conditions as to whether an application will be accepted or not: with the main one being upheld by most companies, and that is, not covering for pre-existing conditions for new clients.
Age does have a huge influence on when we make our decision and understandably, when we are young, 10 foot tall and bullet proof, it may all seem like a mighty unnecessary expense.
But we learn, like we most of us do, through experience; that weighing up the immediate cost and only seeing the short term is behaving rather myopically. Benefits of being a long-term health policy holder can provide loyalty benefits such as better value premiums and possibly, in the case of possible future health conditions manifesting themselves, being covered as you are an existing client.
One thing absolutely for sure – it has been scientifically proven, that the more birthdays you have, the longer you live.
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2 年Good on you Ryan J Melton. You manage to cover a whole range of points under one heading, as usual! I like this from Charles Darwin (yes, I lifted it straight from Dr Google, but CD did say something like this!): It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. I guess good health insurance is part of that - if you can afford it ... :-)