Maybe we have it all wrong!
Posted by creativeaging on March 8, 2008
Maybe we do have it all wrong. Recently I had an experience that reminded me that those basic concepts of human psychology matter. I was travelling and had to board a bus…but the bus loaded and unloaded only from one end. Therefore the first to get on had to move to the back in order to allow the other passengers on and were the last off. Savy travellers crowded near the door and the driver resorted to yelling “We aren’t going anywhere until every passenger gets on this bus, so move back!”. But in this case obeying the rules, the driver, meant the first became last and the last (or those who lingered by the door) first. So the incentive to do the right thing was lacking. And people act according to incentives and personal gain. That’s the pyschological principle I was referring to. And how does this apply to creative aging? Well since none of us want to get old, we most often avoid the subject. Perhaps if we had named this movement “Creative Living Life to Its Fullest” we’d be more successful. People want to live life to its fullest.
