In the TED Talk, Dan Ariely discusses how our personal decisions aren’t really ours, and are influenced by other people a lot more than we think. I found a lot of his examples/experiments very interesting. Not very surprising, but pretty interesting. It all makes sense, if you aren’t very sure very sure about your decision, you are easily persuaded by the format of the question. For instance, the check boxes on the organ donor sheet in the TED Talk. I think a normal person would assume that the answer that is kind of provided for you is the better one to go with, but that is definitely not the case. Ariely also discussed how adding an inferior topic makes another topic sound a lot better. Adding an ugly Tom to a set of pictures makes regular Tom super hot, or adding an ugly Jerry makes regular Jerry seem really hot. Basically, how you have to experience or see the bad stuff to appreciate the good, which is something Ben talks about all the time. So this TED Talk is basically saying no matter how hard we try, some things are just not in our control. I’m pretty sure this is the part that relates to tragedy. Like in Oedipus Rex, no matter how hard he tried to get away from sleeping with his mother and killing his father, it still ended up happening. So in in tragedy, sometimes stuff happens the characters cannot control, no matter how hard they try to.
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