Jon Levy argues that social integration is our deepest need, more fundamental than food or shelter. He cites Google research showing psychological safety beats diversity and talent as the strongest predictor of team success. Communities that allow disagreement without fear of ostracism generate stronger ideas and greater influence.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. I couldn't agree more. There's even this really solid argument that the Maslow's higher order of needs that maybe we should put as the most important social integration. Because if you look at the greatest punishment that we give a person when we don't want the like, when they're a problem in our society, it isn't like starving them. What we do is we either put them in solitary confinement or we push them out of our culture. And. And so for human beings, it seems that there's no greater need than the need to fit in. We're in fact willing to deal with just about anything in order to feel like we're part of a culture society. So when. Oh, sorry. Does that mean that cancel culture is actually creating loneliness because people are afraid of being ostracized now? You might make a mistake. You might do something. I think so. And the reason I think that that's actually a really good observation is that when Google was looking at what the greatest predictor of a team's success was. There's a lot of things that people think like you take a diverse group of people who are geniuses and you throw them in a room together, let them solve a problem. That's it. Or tenure or something like that. But it was actually psychological safety, the feeling that you're part of the group, even if you have a descending view. So the two of us can't explore an idea. If I agree with everything that you say, we'll never. That's kind of boring. And we'll also never find the problems to improve it. Right? Ideas are antifragile. The more pressure you put on them, the more, the more you discover the strength of them and where you need to sure things up. And so I think that you're kind of spot on with this cancel culture thing. If you're scared of saying anything that's unpopular, then we're never going to get to a better idea.
