How to Be a Better Human How to let go of being a "good" person (with Dolly Chugh)
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Aug 22, 2022 
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Let Go Of Being Perfectly Good
- Goodness is often treated as a fixed trait we should just 'have' rather than a set of skills to develop.
- Dolly Chugh proposes letting go of being perfectly 'good' and aiming to be 'goodish' to open space for learning and growth.
Good Person Identity Swings Behavior
- Our 'good person' identity fluctuates and we use actions to rebalance it, sometimes compensating or licensing ourselves.
- Research shows moral compensation and moral licensing sway behavior after identity threats or affirmations.
Ethics Also Have Cognitive Limits
- Bounded ethicality says our brains have limits that make ethical decision-making systematically imperfect.
- Chugh and colleagues adapt bounded rationality to ethics, showing routine cognitive limits cause predictable ethical blind spots.