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#248 — Order & Freedom

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Relationship Between Threat and Tightness

The way i study tight loose is that certain ecological and historical factors create the need for order and predictability. So if you have lots of threat in a society, or in an organization, or in a household, or even as an individual, abiding by norms is actually good strategy. And so tight looseis a mind set at the individual level. The metaphore i write about in the book, taking this from doly liic, is a the order versus chaos moppetsno.

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