“When a nine-year-old is dealing with a huge negative thing, it doesn't matter if I agree that it's a huge negative thing. What matters is that experience... I just have to wait out the big bad feeling... and then in its wake, there is some space for something positive”
Hidden Brain · Why Am I Unhappy?
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What was described
Suggests that telling a child to "focus on the positives" when they are experiencing a big negative feeling is unhelpful; instead, wait out the negative feeling before introducing positivity
Said nearby on the same subject
“We can go into the KV cache of the model and steer these positive or negative directions ... when you steer the zone with negative valence, the model is significantly more likely to avoid that zone”
“She polled 16 of them and 14 out of 16 came away saying they are more positive on Liz Holmes… 14 said more positive, only one said more negative.”
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Said on TBPN
Growth tactic14 out of 16 said more positive; 1 more negative; 1 unchangedShare this moment
“We don’t say… failed. We go, Hey, so-and-so, how’d that go? … we celebrate it. … avoid that void of communication because people feel negative thoughts.”