Tag: Psychology
Y’all have probably seen a lot of pink lately, inspired by the fight against breast cancer. Yesterday, I went to the Boulder Foothills Hospital (in the picture) where I was scheduled for a mammogram. I was terrified.
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Reducing fear doesn’t have to be about life or death or pain to be meaningful and powerful. If you can help your users feel more confident and less stressed, you’ve given them a wonderful gift.
This post by Kathy Sierra is both a good lesson and a top-notch example of using personal narrative to illustrate a point.
The war on terror? Really?
Paul Stephenson, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (From Times Online):
We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder. This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale.
The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.
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But obviously, we’re still not completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America.
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The American people need to know we live in a dangerous world, but our government will do everything we can to protect our people from those dangers.
Spreading fear kind of defeats the purpose of a “war on terror”, doesn’t it? Of course, if people would bother to stop and think for a minute or two, they’d realize that this fear is totally irrational and wouldn’t be affected by the tactics of the terrorists or those charged with defending us.
As usual, Ze Frank says it best.