Chapter 70 · Quick Fire
Why Change is Hard: paradigms, resistance, and the human substrate
Question 1 / 10Press 1–4
What did Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory find about losses and gains?
- 1Losses and gains are weighted equally
- 2Humans weight losses approximately twice as heavily as equivalent gains; what looks like irrational resistance is mathematically accurate accounting given how human valuation works
- 3Gains feel twice as good as losses hurt
- 4Both are weighted by a factor of ten
Habit loop
- Learn
Finish this step. - Plan
Decide the next sitting. - Do
Carry one part into action. - Reflect
Log what changed. - Teach
Pass one point on.