Phil introduces concepts from the book “On Being Awesome” by Nick Riggle, which goes in-depth on how to avoid being a sucky person and embrace one’s own inner awesomeness.
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References
- On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck – Nick Riggle
- Ethics: What people ought to do or which behavior is morally right.
- Morality: The categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
- Social Openings: Moments of mutual appreciation between people when they break out of their norms and routines by expressing their individuality in a way that gets others to express theirs.
- Goffman’s Dramaturgy: a sociological perspective that analyzes micro-sociological accounts of everyday social interactions through the analogy of performativity and theatrical dramaturgy, dividing such interactions between “actors”, “audience” members, and various “front” and “back” stages.
- Social Script: A psychological theory which posits that human behaviour largely falls into patterns called “scripts” because they function the way a written script does, by providing a program for action.
- Copersons/Copersonhood: two people meeting as individuals, outside their socially or contextually prescribed roles.
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