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Comment on "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively?

breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I think of a reality check as bringing you back to a more neutral perspective? It may feel negative, but like you say thats just short term.

Reality being neutral, a reality check brings you back to that state?

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Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As I was writing the body of the post, that’s pretty much the conclusion I came to.
There’s not much more I could say with my limited knowledge on philosophy and psychology ~~without spreading misinformation or something~~.

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- RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There’s an interesting book on psychology (by a nobel Prize winner) called “Thinking Fast and Slow”, Daniel Khaneman.
  
  It’s called regression to the mean. It seemed that yelling after bad pilots made them good. Kahneman proved that yelling at them when they were good made them bad too. It’s just that great pilots can sometimes be bad, and bad pilots can sometimes be good, it had little to do with how they pushed them.
  
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