Category: Fear

• June 19, 2015

  Toughness Trained Through Harder and Harder Contests

  Our Predicament We are forever holding back. We are always backing down. Every day we stand aside, give in, crumple up, let fall. Has panic settled in? This is meekness. Look around you and you will find it–so dour, so damp, so commonplace–almost everywhere. The Desirability of Toughness Suppose, like me, you say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Then…
• June 18, 2015

  Endowment Effect and Wrenching Toughness

  In behavioral economics, the ‘endowment effect’ states that individuals ascribe higher value to the objects they possess than to the objects they could secure. If this is true, then we are ‘loss averse’ creatures that prefer to keep what we have and are more disheartened by the loss of our possessions than by the gain of some other, perhaps…