And the opposite of happiness is apathy . Apathy is when we are stuck in the middle, and we just don't know where to go.And the clinical version of apathy is called depression.
finer anyway so what was the breakthrough he had had to be explained to him and so there's that kind of not apathy but that kind of distance and then there's the other kind of distance how's this gonna make my life better Barack Obama is in a better positionthan any president we've ever had to speak to those eighteen year old kids I don't know if he's gonna have to wait
information so I think it's a it's an interesting Journey that has started in this country which should have started long back and it's a journey for ethical apathy no tests were being done inside the hospital and the first question that came into my mind was uh are we legally
So, I kept pushing. I kept pushing and eventually I found a major in the Atlanta Police Department who told me, "Mr. Langley, it's not apathy , it's not effort, it's evidence. If all we had was a license plate, we could catch these people." So, I I did what engineers did.
But if you're showing up everyday at 9:01, and you're leaving everyday at 4:59-- if everybody does that, it breeds a culture of mediocrity and apathy . Well, if no one else cares, why should I care?
You know, all engaged, all with a sense of mission. We do have this apathy towards democracy. But you try to make us not just despair about that.
It wasn't just Sean Parker and the radicals and the Metallica folks upset about that. I think apathy is certainly one of the huge issues our government's facing right now.
that you do. And then we'll kind of talk. The story is called "Reality Apathy ." And it is set in the near future-- I'm guessing three to five years, but depending on how fast the culture accelerates.
And actually, I didn't even think about moral apathy at all, because I'm in the bubble of my world, until I went to see "I'm not your Negro", And I heard the term moral apathy , and I was like, that's it. It is when we live in a bubble of privilege, or of addiction, or denial, or fear that disallows us
The only thing that we have to understand is that we will be swinging from one state to the other. And the opposite of happiness is apathy . Apathy is when we are stuck in the middle, and we just don't know where to go.
Apathy is when we are stuck in the middle, and we just don't know where to go.And the clinical version of apathy is called depression. And in that particular matter, we need regular psychology to cure us.
You know, so it's actually a tremendous sense of discovery and exploration to experiment with how we pay attention so that we can actually open And so it's not apathy or rejection.
to the mid-term elections in November, and if you think of all the people who are going off to vote in Europe this week, there's a sort of despondent apathy there. And what we argue in this book, is that is completely wrong.
I think the opposite of happiness is not unhappiness. The opposite of happiness is apathy , which is the loss of joy that we feel within our lives. Because if you think about it, unhappiness can sometimes make us breakup with people we shouldn't be dating.
Inflammation is intended for a good thing. It doesn't lead to an apathy at all.
there are far more people who have been engaged in it this year than you would have ever hoped people who paid no attention when I find the most apathy comes from young young people who like my 12 year old godson who goes what's the big deal in his life they've always been places from the go he's always had a multiracial cast of friends he didn't understand racism
We tend to get all these stories that come, many of them from Freud, that the father's job is to be the tough love parent that teaches you to be rational and deal with the apathy of the real world, and the mother is supposed to hold you and care for you and nurture you. I have no idea if it's good or bad that those things get separated with parents.
And the shaming and blaming, of course, is expressed outwardly toward others. And then the fourth one is called moral apathy . And actually, I didn't even think about moral apathy at all, because I'm in the bubble of my world, until I went to see "I'm not your Negro",
What are the other hurdles you see about getting more engagement in the conversation and in the dialogue? I think the biggest one we face is apathy . I think at Wharton, and I imagine at a place like Google, you encounter very few people who are actively antagonistic, who say, I don't like this, I don't want gender equality,
So I suggest you need all the friends you can get at this point, friends you can trust. Indifference. Apathy . It gets them that.
And this is despite the fact that there was a bit of voter apathy during the
and advocates all believed that there was this dramatic risk in scaring the public into apathy .
I'm wondering if you have any advice on how we can sort of combat the apathy that comes from all the difficult moral decisions
It looked like every trash can I'd ever tipped over at James Madison Memorial during my reign of apathy .
And then the fourth one is called moral apathy . And actually, I didn't even think about moral apathy at all, because I'm in the bubble of my world, until I went to see "I'm not your Negro", And I heard the term moral apathy , and I was like, that's it.
And the comments back were just so discouraging, in terms of just pure apathy , laziness, being unaware with what's going on,
Perhaps if the continent had never shaken themselves free, we might find ourselves disabused of this apathy .
I mean, everything from poverty, to apathy , to misogyny, to bigger things like ISIS and al-Qaeda, who want to reach kids with negativity in their lives.
He might not get to see what his potential was in terms of applying his self-control and his behavior to his task. So what we want people to do is to recognize that that can be more on the side of apathy . I think the opposite of happiness is not unhappiness.
Mainly dissatisfaction with a lot of things, a certain apathy , creative stagnation.
of people talk about when they talk about geoengineering technological hubris. What scares me is human apathy . And I think the degree that this discussion about geoengineering
and genes? The answers to all these questions lie in one important fact, our constant neglect and apathy
I found it really striking that more than the polarization there, what you saw was just a disconnect-- a disconnection and an apathy
How have you, kind of, kept your head about that, and been able to, kind of, rise above the apathy and entitlement?
Nobody, really. Throughout its production at Fox studios, there was apathy .
If your ability is very high, and the demands are low, you probably have apathy .
as part of the sin of Sodom, but are quite explicit that the sin of Sodom has to do with arrogance and apathy
which is going wrong. I'd also put into question what you said about this is a way of addressing public apathy because I see it the other way. If, and this is if people believe already
that we will have technology which will fix the problems which technology has brought, and that's, I think, a way of increasing public apathy rather than decreasing it. But I'm
to understand exactly where. And so as I got older, and started to internalize it, that confusion led to anger, that confusion led to fear, that confusion led to apathy , and
one kid got it, and the other kid didn't, and now the world bears witness to the final results of either our attention or our apathy , our focus or our indifference. What we fundamentally