Adam MarkelInternational Keynote Speaker On Resilience

The Hidden Cost of Deplition #shorts

Name: The Hidden Cost of Deplition #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-03-06T00:00:18+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Adam Markel
Description: Adam Markel (speaker/creator) explains the concept of psychological/physiological "depletion" and its behavioral costs: when people are depleted they…

6 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Adam Markel (speaker/creator) explains the concept of psychological/physiological "depletion" and its behavioral costs: when people are depleted they become more reactive, less patient, make quicker (and often poorer) decisions, become somewhat less trustworthy (more likely to lie), and — critically — lose capacity to think beyond immediate problems. The piece frames the central question as whether people can be "bigger than those challenges" rather than whether challenges will occur.

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It's great research, great storytelling. In the middle, he talks about depletion. The thing about depletion is that when we're depleted, we're more reactive. We're less patient with people and with ourselves. When we're depleted, we tend to make quicker decisions and usually make the wrong decisions. When we're depleted, we also tend to lie a little bit more. We all tend to do that just a bit anyway. But we're less trustworthy when we are depleted. And the biggest cost of depletion in the world that we're living in right now is our capacity to think beyond the problems. The question isn't whether we'll have problems. The question isn't whether we'll have challenges. The question is whether we're bigger than those challenges.