Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
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Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
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#2For me it's a combo between this /and/ just people's attitude - it's fine if you want to be slow, but you have to be considerate of others. I wouldn't be mad if you were walking slowly on the side of the street - probably wouldn't even notice - but I'll be mad if you're walking slowly in the middle. It often costs nothing to be considerate, and it makes life more pleasant for everyone!
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#3For me it's a combo between this /and/ just people's attitude - it's fine if you want to be slow, but you have to be considerate of others. I wouldn't be mad if you were walking slowly on the side of the street - probably wouldn't even notice - but I'll be mad if you're walking slowly in the middle. It often costs nothing to be considerate, and it makes life more pleasant for everyone!
It is the exact same thing as with slow cars driving in the middle or outer lane. They can really spur up some road rage in people.
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#4The conclusion (spoiler alert) that showing gratitude can help fight the negative emotional reaction to impatience sounds a lot like stoicism. Particularly the idea that you should think about the positive things that you have, rather than the negative thing happening to you right now (being stuck in a slow moving line).
Re: Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
#5For me it's a combo between this /and/ just people's attitude - it's fine if you want to be slow, but you have to be considerate of others. I wouldn't be mad if you were walking slowly on the side of the street - probably wouldn't even notice - but I'll be mad if you're walking slowly in the middle. It often costs nothing to be considerate, and it makes life more pleasant for everyone!
I agree--most, probably all, of my "slowness rage" is due to people being inconsiderate. If I need to stop and get my bearings or check my itinerary on my phone, I try my best to stand aside and out of the way. It's not difficult. I wish more people would do this. No one is obligated to be in a hurry, but it should be common courtesy to not jam things up for those who are.
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#6Once upon a time writers actually took the time to investigate their "tools", like flying to Hawaii and sitting down with a psychologist in a small cafe and going over the numbers if you must.
Not everyone is in a New York state of mind. Once you Once Upon a time it speaks to narrowness.
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#8I have terrible sidewalk rage, but it has nothing to do with slowpokes -- I can't stand people who walk straight down the middle and don't make room. "Oh, I'm so sorry your highness, I didn't realize this was your sidewalk" [says the voice in my head that I can't vocalize because unlike being in an automobile the other person would hear me].
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#9Once upon a time writers actually took the time to investigate their "tools", like flying to Hawaii and sitting down with a psychologist in a small cafe and going over the numbers if you must. Not everyone is in a New York state of mind. Once you Once Upon a time it speaks to narrowness.
This comment looks like a markov chain to me.
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#10"Patience is a virtue that’s been vanquished in the Twitter age."
Oh, it's one of those. Where unnamed "cognitive scientists" verify that everything was better in the good old days, and the world is just too fast now.