The Curmudgeon-Y Response to Pain

When we're babies, our first response to pain is to cry. And so we learn and get reinforced from a very young age that crying is a helpful response to pain. Then we grow up and that evolves into other defense mechanisms. We'll talk about what they are in a second. But something happens along the way at some point or at many points over and over again to make our curmudgeon-y. It's going to replace proclivity. They get turned into jerks. There's reasons why.