To benefit from one’calling[1] /23.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando[2].

 

“That day I found out that the flight instructors were trapped in an unsuccesful contingency : because they punished student pilots when performance was poor, they were mostly compensated by a following improvement, but the punishment was actually ineffective… Because we tend to be good to others when we like them, and bad when others dislike us, we are statistically punished for being good and rewarded for being bad.”[3]

 

When introducing the ‘regression to the mean’ of a statistical prediction – Daniel Kahneman admits it has no causal explanation – he comes across indeed human laziness which is every time secondary to the ‘drive’ - or ‘moving law’[4] - that removed, with prejudice, any possibility for work[5], and then for fruit.

How do you remove laziness ?, Kahneman wonders over and over.

That’s a very good question, that I will pick up on.

 

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 30, 2023

 

 

[1] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

[2] Gianni Russomando, biographical note : “I’m born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I describe myself as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter) and far from expositions and competitions.” 

[3] ‘Pensieri lenti e veloci’, Daniel Kahneman – Translat. by Laura Serra / Mondadori Libri SpA (2022), p.236 ‘Regressione verso la media’.

[4] ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998), p.115

[5] ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998), pp.19-34