Professor Paul Verhaeghe says how we are competitive creatures but also cooperative creatures. Think of a football team where group effort and cooperation wins the game, but everyone would love to be the person who gets the goals. In neoliberalism, says Paul Verhaeghe, the coopperatrive bit has been left out with only the competitive bit left in.have a look at the embedded video and about ten minutes in you will see an experiment with monkeys where for completing a task one gets a grape ant the other a cucumber. It's hilarious, the one the gets the cucumber goes mad because of the injustice. Humans are hard wired to act the same and so in our over competitive society depression and anxiety disorders are on the rise. Paul Verhaeghe says how it is a rat race and that good feelings of
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have a look at the embedded video and about ten minutes in you will see an experiment with monkeys where for completing a task one gets a grape ant the other a cucumber. It's hilarious, the one the gets the cucumber goes mad because of the injustice. Humans are hard wired to act the same and so in our over competitive society depression and anxiety disorders are on the rise. Paul Verhaeghe says how it is a rat race and that good feelings of success don't last long. In my last company you were only as good as your last job, one mess up and you was at the bottom of the heap again.
I remember how my mum worked in a shop and they had a chart on the wall for best salesperson of the week. There was no extra money for being the top salesperson but no one wanted to be on the bottom. KV
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