THE PROOF DUTERTE IS A THINKING PRESIDENT

The fear and threats employed by PDU30 to stop drugs, criminality, and corruption have limited impact on behavior. According to Science, it is the thrill of a gain that induces a person to change behavior. But My God, PDU30 is doing both, the warnings to STOP and the gain for progress for our country as REWARDS.

It is a deep-rooted belief, that if fear is induced, it will get them into action. But warnings and threats as scientists have proven have very limited impact on behavior. It is because the effect is just to tend to shut down and put our head in the ground and try to eliminate the negative feelings by making rationalizations. Then, you assume that there’s really nothing to worry about. And this process can actually make you feel more resilient than you did before, which is why warnings sometimes have this boomerang effect.

Science finds that people tend to change belief towards a more desirable opinion, which means people listen to positive information. People take-in information they want to hear than the information that they don’t want to hear.

So, therefore, we might as well go along with how our brain works and not against it. Then use these 3 principles that will really drive your mind and your behavior, namely:

1) SOCIAL INCENTIVES, which means highlighting what other people are doing is a really strong incentive. Being social people, we really care what other people are doing. We want to do the same and we want to do it better.

For PDU30, he has shown he is not a corrupt president and progress is now the fight of his life making our dream into reality. By Duterte’s example, the others will tend to follow because they also want to be part to seek progress.

2) IMMEDIATE REWARDS. We value immediate rewards that we can get now more than rewards we can get in the future. The here-and-now reward you would rather have than something that’s uncertain in the future. This is realistic because receiving the reward now is sure compared to in the future which is unsure.

In Duterte’s case, he has shown he leads by example he is not corrupt. Without corruption, progress abounds around the nation.

3) PROGRESS MONITORING. This means to get the people’s attention by highlighting the progress, not the decline. This is because the thrill of a gain induces action.

The build, build, build program by rolling out 75 flagship projects worth a combined total of $36 billion in investments must be highlighted. Some of them have already been finished and opened for public use. Many others are expected to be realized in the future.