Vincent’s Words and Ideas

White Coat Phase

When medical students integrate the social power and prestige of the white coat into their identity. Can also be the stethoscope, surgical scubs, etc.

Extreme Empathy

Extreme empathy is where you rationalize, explain, and process the thoughts and actions of others in a manner where the conclusion is never individual fault. (A play on Jocko Willink’s “extreme ownership”)

Practical uncertainty

On one hand, cognitively, a human goes through reality processing their enormous data input with the necessary tools of generalizations, assumptions, schemas, and stereotypes. On the other hand, over-doing any of these lead to mischaracterization, de-individualization, and inaccuracy.

Practical uncertainty is the idea of approaching a person, from a population pool that is characterized by a trend/generalization with low correlational power (R), with complete uncertainty of their place within that trend/generalization.

Example: As an Indian, I have observed that a lot of Indians can handle spice well. If I had absolute knowledge, I would predict that the majority of Indians do handle spice well. However, since I don’t have absolute knowledge and I am working on the individual scale, I must practice practical uncertainty, meaning if I see an Indian, its 50/50 if they handle spice well or not. Of course, concrete predictions of individuals is unavoidable sometimes.

Intelligentification

In some ways, the opposite of objectification, but along the same lines of wrongness. Intelligentification is when you desire a person for their mind and thinking, and not for their relationship.

Thought reflex

When one reflexively thinks a thought that doesn’t reflect their true identity, morals, and values