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Classroom Test About Love And Reality
- Vervaeke tests students by asking if they'd want to know a partner cheated even if it destroyed the relationship.
- Almost all preferred truth because the relationship would not be real to them otherwise.
Protect Attention To Restore Meaning
- Reduce attentional hijacks that degrade relevance realization by curating digital input and slowing pace.
- Vervaeke says people can still invest long-term attention when content proves genuinely relevant.
Wisdom Famine Explains Modern Disconnection
- The meaning crisis has both perennial cognitive causes and historical causes that removed wisdom ecologies.
- Vervaeke calls the loss of community wisdom a 'wisdom famine' that leaves us vulnerable to self-deception.