Kahneman describes an intense aversion to anger as part of his natural temperament:
Daniel Kahneman: I happen to be an extreme case...for me, anger goes into depression very quickly. I hate being angry and so I hate the adversarial exchanges that you frequently find in the social sciences and actually in the physical sciences as well, where people are snide and they use sarcasm. I haven’t initiated that much, not because I'm a saint, but because I hate being angry.
His modesty aside, Kahneman makes an important point, one rarely addressed so directly in academic circles – that the ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge.
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Daniel Kahneman: I happen to be an extreme case...for me, anger goes into depression very quickly. I hate being angry and so I hate the adversarial exchanges that you frequently find in the social sciences and actually in the physical sciences as well, where people are snide and they use sarcasm. I haven’t initiated that much, not because I'm a saint, but because I hate being angry.
His modesty aside, Kahneman makes an important point, one rarely addressed so directly in academic circles – that the ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge.
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