Glossary
Fight-or-flight reward focus oriented toward grades, wealth, and strategic advantage.
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utilitarian mode
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, can we do both, like open -minded and get the grades and being rich? Okay. Is it a possible thing?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, can we do both, like open -minded and get the grades and being rich? Okay. Is it a possible thing?"
Key Notes
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Altruistic and utilitarian modes are mutually exclusive in Jiang’s model: altruistic connection supports creativity, passion, and love, while utilitarian reward-focus pursues grades and cannot simultaneously help the world.
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"Well, can we do both, like open -minded and get the grades and being rich? Okay. Is it a possible thing?"
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"...There's the altruistic mode. There's the altruistic mode. And there's the utilitarian mode, okay? Okay, so utilitarian is what we call fight or flight,..."
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"But you said that all the psychology is just rain -washing."
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"Okay. Yes, psychology is not all brain -washing. There's some validity to it, okay? And so I'm not saying this is something like fact...."
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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