This content was created by Brian Johnson. This content was uploaded by Brian Johnson. This is a YouTube video titled '+1 #707: The Audience Effect' created on March 13, 2019, featuring Brian Johnson discussing the concept of the Audience Effect and its psychological implications, as well as its application in creating a supportive community culture.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one concluding our quick tour through how to Walk on Fire AKA how bad do you want it? Let's talk about one more coping strategy for rocking it. It's called the Audience effect. Short story Researchers have brought people into a lab or brought the lab to them and tested them on everything from how much weight they can lift to to how clean they keep their cafeteria. For example, you can put pictures of human eyeballs on a wall in a cafeteria and students will keep it cleaner. Seriously. Or you can test people on how much weight they can lift in different settings and what you'll find is that they'll lift more when doing it on a stage alone in front of an audience. It's called the audience Effect. As Matt Fitzgerald says, the Online Psychology Dictionary defines it as the influence of the presence of other people on an individual's behavior. He continues by saying psychologists believe that the audience effect is mediated by a so called sociometer, a mechanism involving multiple regions of the brain, including the anterior insula and the inferior gyrus. Through this mechanism, people notice and interpret the attention of those around them and use this input to adjust their behavior in ways that are likely to earn more positive attention. End quote. Isn't that fascinating? Slightly different context, but I'm reminded of Angela Duckworth's Wisdom from Grit where she tells us, again I quote, the bottom line on culture and grit is if you want to be grittier, find a gritty culture and join it. If you're a leader and you want the people in your organization to be grittier, create a gritty culture. All that inspires me even more to create our optimized noble social platform where we support one another with accountability eyeballs as we all elevate our standards and make our best our baseline within a community where the optimal behavior is the normative behavior, AKA it's weird not to optimize, meditate, prioritize, sleep, etc etc etc. One more thing. Know whose eyeballs we want to make sure are present as much as possible. Your daimons. That's today's plus one. From my eyeballs to yours, let's do this.
