The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)

Ritual: Why Seemingly Senseless Acts Making Life Worth Living (Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas)

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May 15, 2023
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INSIGHT

Ritual vs. Routine

  • Rituals have no direct link between actions and intended outcomes, unlike routines.
  • Rituals transform seemingly meaningless actions into significant ones, fostering a sense of importance.
ANECDOTE

Gobekli Tepe: Temples Before Cities

  • Gobekli Tepe, a site with temple-like structures, predates permanent settlements, challenging established history.
  • This suggests spiritual needs, not just material ones, drove early humans to settle and farm.
INSIGHT

Minimal Group Paradigm and Rituals

  • The minimal group paradigm shows how easily people form group attachments, even based on arbitrary criteria.
  • Rituals amplify this by fostering similarity, but can also create harmful outgroup biases.
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