Yes! We are not focusing on teaching the effortful skills of resiliency. (See here among many potential links: https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience)
In your reference to Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, indeed, we are somewhat predisposed to fast thinking and this seems to predispose us to fast solutions in general. But we need the SLOW and that is part of Kahneman's point in his work with Tversky - we rely on heuristics rather than algorithms. Algorithms are effortful. Heuristics, although reliably prone to bias, are not effortful.
My point is this: we need to teach people to become more effortful in their approach to anything that becomes a problem, e.g., negative health consequences of obesity. With effort we can reduce these consequences. With pills and surgery now being suggested even for children, we also reduce the consequences but without lifelong habits of effortful intervention when we need to make it for ourselves. Surgery is known to fail over time when a person has not been taught to be effortful in their livelong choices. People are know to develop tolerance to medications, requiring more and more an more to sustain the same level of response. Again, learning some effortful responses early on in life can have a positive lifelong impact on problem-solving problems in general, in one's life. The teaching of skills that lead to resiliency seems to be a missing link in the general discussion.
BTW the link to the CBS news piece on surgery and pills for kids as young as 13 and 12, respectively, considers only to two approaches: surgery/pills versus waiting to see if they outgrow their weight. They never consider other interventions!
Thank you for highlighting the importance of advocating for effortful engagement. There are no quick and easy fixes to most challenges and not learning the value of hard work is harmful to the effectiveness of a current solution that seeks to find one but also sets one up for failure in the face of potential future challenges by impeding their development of skills that promote resilience.
Yes! We are not focusing on teaching the effortful skills of resiliency. (See here among many potential links: https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience)
In your reference to Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, indeed, we are somewhat predisposed to fast thinking and this seems to predispose us to fast solutions in general. But we need the SLOW and that is part of Kahneman's point in his work with Tversky - we rely on heuristics rather than algorithms. Algorithms are effortful. Heuristics, although reliably prone to bias, are not effortful.
My point is this: we need to teach people to become more effortful in their approach to anything that becomes a problem, e.g., negative health consequences of obesity. With effort we can reduce these consequences. With pills and surgery now being suggested even for children, we also reduce the consequences but without lifelong habits of effortful intervention when we need to make it for ourselves. Surgery is known to fail over time when a person has not been taught to be effortful in their livelong choices. People are know to develop tolerance to medications, requiring more and more an more to sustain the same level of response. Again, learning some effortful responses early on in life can have a positive lifelong impact on problem-solving problems in general, in one's life. The teaching of skills that lead to resiliency seems to be a missing link in the general discussion.
BTW the link to the CBS news piece on surgery and pills for kids as young as 13 and 12, respectively, considers only to two approaches: surgery/pills versus waiting to see if they outgrow their weight. They never consider other interventions!
Thank you for highlighting the importance of advocating for effortful engagement. There are no quick and easy fixes to most challenges and not learning the value of hard work is harmful to the effectiveness of a current solution that seeks to find one but also sets one up for failure in the face of potential future challenges by impeding their development of skills that promote resilience.