After Skool

Dr. Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he is also a Zen priest. Learn more about Dr. Robert Waldinger at https://www.robertwaldinger.com/ To learn more about what makes a good life, check out the book, "The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness" by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schulz, PhD. Thank you for watching.

In this episode of After Skool, Mark Manson explains the Outrage Cycle, a wave of reactions that predictably follow any major event. In our social media age, the most extreme reaction is often the one that gets the most attention. This incentive fuels the outrage machine. When a major event happens, there is an initial viral wave, followed by a reactionary viral wave, followed by an anti-reactionary viral wave. Once these 3 waves play out, people's attention moves on to the next event, and the cycle repeats itself. Music by: Caleb Winters https://www.calebwinters.ca/