Box CEO reveals therapy breakthrough on catastrophizing, links doomers to mental health issue

What was said

"She used this term catastrophization or catastrophized. And so like maybe that's like a well-known term. I have no idea. But the theory being that like I catastrophize things. So like I get one piece of news and then I instantly extrapolate out to like the worst possible outcomes. And by the way, I think actually like most people, most AI doomers should probably see a therapist because it's all, it's all just catastrophization."

Levie shares that his therapist helped him identify catastrophizing as a pattern where he extrapolates single negative events to worst-case scenarios. Learning to recognize and name this pattern shortened his anxiety cycles from days to much briefer periods. He then provocatively suggests that AI doomers exhibit the same psychological pattern and should seek therapy.