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NotJavierBardem's avatar

Neuroscience is like a drug to a section of the OD-type community. Is it the simplicity? Once you accept all the 'stuff' as factually true and non-contestable, them it offers lovely, potted explanations for stuff.

Is it horoscopes for the modern workplace?

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Matt's avatar

Agree. Actual neuroscience is difficult, contradictory, and useful.

In marketing, there was a fashion for a period of putting people in MRI machines, showing them ads and then saying "Ah ha! This is what's really going on!" It was mostly unusable.

In OD (by which I assume you mean Organization Development and not OverDosing), it's been people with minimal scientific training grabbing concepts and applying them willy-nilly. The patina of "science" makes this stuff like shiny things for magpies.

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NotJavierBardem's avatar

Yes, like my ‘alternative lifestyles’ relation telling me how science has backed up irodology. Like, why invoke science when your whole belief system rejects it?

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

In a week I have an essay coming out about agency and addiction. It does put the power back in the individual's hands but it's a different topic but also similar.

For work and stress I never underestimate the power of incompetent managers. But we do still have some control. It's why I advocate quiet quitting for instance.

https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/yes-do-quiet-quit

Yet I also know that as a manager I have a huge impact on my team which is why I always advocate providing tip cover .

https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/providing-top-cover-part-1

I hope you aren't getting too stressed!

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Matt's avatar

100% - there will be a follow up post about "tip cover".

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Fat fingers on a phone 🤣😜

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