Name: Bill Nye on the Science of Switching to Chromebook
Uploaded: 2019-09-02T06:05:52.000Z
Duration: 2 min 52 s
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Fear, it's our natural evolutionary response to the unknown. We humans have

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developed fear over millions of years to help us cope with this dangerous world

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around us, but you're not living in a cave. You don't fear getting eaten alive,

and yet you fear something as small as switching from your old laptop to a new

Chromebook. One that boots up as fast as six seconds, the other takes forever. One has

built-in virus protection, the other should be quarantined. So why haven't you

switched? To understand we need to go where fear starts. In the brain you want

to switch to Chromebook but your Amygdala is saying, "I'm scared," while your

Prefrontal Cortex is saying, "But you need a new laptop." It's like your cave person

brain just wants to run while your modern brain is saying, "chill out dog,

it's just a Chromebook." You shouldn't fear switching to Chromebook it's a good

decision but sometimes it's hard to let go of a bad decision. In behavioral

economics this principle is commonly known as the sunk cost fallacy. Let me

give you an example.Let's say you paid for a vacation months in advance.

Now you work hard, you deserve it but when you arrive there's a giant storm

and you're determined to stick it out because you've already paid for it.

But I get it fear of loss can cause a rational

attachment to things familiar to us. It's called the status quo bias.

We've been through a lot together. You know you weren't you weren't supposed to

see that. But constant updates, patches, it never ends. Not to mention it takes

forever to start up and it won't be long before it freezes or worse. But when you

switch to Chromebook, which starts up fast and updates automatically with no

interruptions, you don't have to worry about any of that. And if you lose it for

whatever reason all your stuff is safely backed up on the cloud and it works

offline even with Netflix, which is good because I have a flight to catch.

Remember when we overcome our fears we can accomplish great things.

So don't let fear win, switch to Chromebook.