ROBERT GREENE | The Laws of Human Nature | Modern Wisdom Podcast 078
Robert Greene is a New York Times best selling author.
You can be a genius in your field and know all the things you need to know, but if you're bad with people you will totally neutralise your brilliance and can face many difficulties and pains in life...
Today we're talking about Robert's new book The Laws Of Human Nature, as we delve deep into understanding people’s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.
Robert names this most recent publication "the culmination of the last 20 years of his work" - so get ready for some fantastic insights.
Steven Pinker is a Cognitive Psychologist at Harvard University, a psycholinguist and a Best Selling Author.
It would be nice to always make the right decision. To escape the prison of human emotions and biases and operate from a purely rational place. Steven's new book breaks down rationality into its components in an attempt to understand just what we're all missing from our mental makeup.
Expect to learn why betting websites are the most accurate forecasters of the future, why learning lists of cognitive biases won't always make you more effective, whether smart people are more or less rational on average, whether politics makes you dumber, how to balance rationality with a desire to be intuitive and present and much more...
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Is Studying Cognitive Biases Beneficial?
09:42 Applying Bayesian Reasoning in Life
22:20 Tensions between Rationality & Intuition
32:20 How Conspiracies Subvert Rationality
41:52 Conclusion
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Petr Ludwig is a speaker, author and CEO of Procrastination.com.
Procrastination is a speedbump in many a would-be productive person's life. Thankfully Petr has given keynote speeches all over the world on this topic, so hopefully he has the solutions.
Expect to learn how to train your willpower, why finding meaning is a productivity tool, the relationship between failure, self-forgiveness and high achievement, how to take an entire month off per year while becoming more productive and much more...
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.
There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Does free will exist? Will we ever have a theory of everything? Are we living in a simulation? And given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?
Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...
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Greenpeace’s Co-Founder & Ex-President Patrick Moore gives his thoughts on Extinction Rebellion & Greta Thunberg.
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WNBA star Brittney Griner has been sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison for having a vape cartridge in her possession. Is Brittney Griner at fault? Will the USA swap a Russian prisoner for Brittney?
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Jeremy McDermott is an investigative reporter and the Director of Insight Crime.
Modern drug lords in South America learned that anonymity is a better defence than a well armed militia. Jeremy has spent the last decade of his life chasing one of the most notorious members of The Invisibles, Memo Fantasma "The Ghost".
Expect to learn how the Vice President of Colombia was implicated in a drug lord's operations, how The Ghost deleted his entire identity, why Jeremy turned up on a kingpin's doorstep in Madrid, why the DEA probably had Memo Fantasma on their payroll and much more...
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Joe Navarro is a former FBI agent, author and a world expert on body language.
Becoming an exceptional communicator is a superpower. No matter your job or goals in life, the better you are at communicating, the better your outcomes will be. Joe led the FBI's non-verbal communication division and SWAT operations whilst catching and turning spies for 25 years, today we get to hear his best advice. How can you get better at Non-Verbal communication? How can you tell if someone is lying from their body language? Is Joe Navarro’s body language detection real?
Expect to learn the biggest mistakes people make when setting up to talk to someone in a room, why self-awareness can save lives, how to control your emotions more effectively, how to de-escalate an intense confrontation, how to be better at small-talk and much more...
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00:00 Intro
04:14 Using Observation Before an Operation
09:44 How to Develop Self-Mastery
17:44 Creating Your Own Apprenticeship
25:31 The Fundamentals of Observation
34:30 Primacy of Emotions in Communication
50:15 How to De-escalate & Control Situations
1:10:36 Designing an Unexceptional Person
1:13:06 Where to Find Joe
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Jason Calacanis is an angel investor and podcaster.
We’re constantly hearing stories of how people are making their millions and billions angel investing in Silicon Valley startups, but I have no idea how it all works.
Thankfully I got hold of Jason, who was one of the first investors in Uber, Thumbtack, Calm and many more, to teach us everything there is to know about the industry.
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Douglas Murray explains the history of slavery. Does Douglas Murray believe that more slaves are alive now than at any time in history? Why does no one care about China’s slave trade? Why does Douglas Murray think there is a war on the West?
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