Mentally Unscripted Ep43 - How to Never Argue Again (Unless You Want To) and a Free Gift Announcement
Our intention at Mentally Unscripted is to bring you better tools to improve your engagement with others. It’s not an easy task in 2021, where Tribalism and media-driven polarization make having productive conversations even harder.
That’s why we’ve put together [How to Never Argue Again (Unless You Want To)](https://mentallyunscripted.com), a free guide to help you have better conversations that don’t end with hurt feelings and lost relationships. To get it, go to [Mentally Unscripted](https://mentallyunscripted.com) and sign up for our email list.
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Stefan is still sidelined, so I’m again going solo to talk about judicial review. Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, and we’re already starting to hear about possible replacements. So, get ready to listen to pundits talking about stare decisis and judicial activism. I will explain some of the significant theories of judicial review and explain why it doesn’t matter.
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Catch the full episode at Mentally Unscripted [Ep53 – Garbage Truth, Stare Decisis, and Constitutional Interpretation! Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings are Coming!](https://bit.ly/ep53-constitutional-interpretation)
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Paul and Scott explain how confirmation bias and our need to be correct have divided the world over COVID.
Top Takeaways
1. Confirmation bias is our tendency to seek, interpret, and remember information that confirms our preexisting beliefs.
2. Confirmation bias helps us avoid cognitive dissonance and gives us the comfort of thinking our beliefs are correct.
3. Not understanding our belief systems about COVID and the confirmation bias that's powering those systems is a reason why COVID has become such a divisive issue.
4. Understand that we all have biases, and we don't need to take absolute positions. Be open to the idea that you could be wrong.
Catch the full episode at Mentally Unscripted [Ep 29 - How Confirmation Bias and COVID Divided the World](https://bit.ly/confirmation-bias-and-covid)
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In this episode, Stefan and Scott welcome Eric Chow to Mentally Unscripted. Eric is the host of The Eric Chow Empowers Podcast where he interviews people who have powerful stories of overcoming adversity.
Eric is an intelligent, caring person. He shares with us his strategies for gaining the trust of people who are often uncomfortable sharing their stories. We discuss the importance of rapport and preparation. We also talk about how Eric knows when to push harder during an interview and when to let up. It’s an excellent conversation for anyone wanting to know more about drawing difficult stories out of people.
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What are the best mental models for managers and leaders?
Find out in ep39 of Mentally Unscripted where Paul and Scott welcome Jeremy Thomas from the Mental Supermodels podcast.
Catch the full episode at Mentally Unscripted [Ep39 – Mortal Kombat Mental Models and Taco Flavored Protein Bars with Jeremy Thomas](https://bit.ly/ep39-jeremy-thomas)
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In this episode of Mentally Unscripted, Paul and Scott welcome Robert and Wiz back to the show. This time they cast their critical, and sometimes cynical, eye on the shady world of social media gurus. And of course, they have a little fun doing it.
Catch the full episode at Mentally Unscripted [Ep34 – Fake Gurus, Bruce Lee Quotes, and the End of Society as We Know It](https://bit.ly/ep33-fake-gurus)
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There’s a lot of talk about President Joe Biden’s announced COVID-19 vaccination requirements for employees of private businesses but there’s been little talk of whether he has the authority to do so. In this episode of Mentally Unscripted, Paul and Scott welcome Patrick MacFarlane of [Liberty Weekly](https://odysee.com/@libertyweekly:3) and the Libertarian Institute to discuss the legal issues of Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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This week, Stefan and Scott welcome Stephan Kinsella to Mentally Unscripted. Stephan is a brilliant, articulate libertarian legal scholar who explains why the mainstream notion that intellectual property spurs innovation is wrong. He dives in by telling us why IP laws are simply government-issued monopolies that actually impede innovation. He explains why we would be more prosperous by removing IP laws and closes by discussing other creative ways creators can profit without protectionist laws.
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Stefan is back this week, so you’re spared another week of Scott’s implacable droning.
In Episode 47, Stefan and Scott recorded a short segment on Bitcoin Maximalism. Their friends Myron and Jeremy of Mental Supermodels recently released an episode that built on those initial insights.
Today, Stefan and Scott returned the favor by adding their thoughts to Myron and Jeremy's. They define Bitcoin Maximalism then discuss its advantages and disadvantages and whether it's the best philosophy for realizing Bitcoin's promise of self-sovereignty.
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In this episode of Mentally Unscripted, Paul and Scott discuss using disconfirming evidence and falsifiability to overcome confirmation bias.
Resources:
[Confirmation Bias: Why Your Decisions Suck, and You Fight With Your Friends](https://strengthandreason.com/confirmation-bias)
[Use Disconfirming Evidence to Make Your Decisions Suck Less](https://strengthandreason.com/disc-evi)
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
Probabilistic Thinking
Top Takeaways:
1. Humans tend to look only for confirming evidence. But often, we need disconfirming evidence to find the correct solution to a question.
2. Disconfirming evidence is better to use when examining a belief because it uses deductive logic instead of inductive logic.
3. Understanding the risk posed by COVID is complicated by the lack of unfiltered, scientific data that gives a level-headed view of the situation.
Timestamps:
[0:00] Discussion of Idiocracy – is it fiction or a documentary?
[4:42] What is confirming and disconfirming evidence?
[7:07] A study demonstrating the value of disconfirming evidence.
[10:56] People tend to avoid using disconfirming evidence because it takes more resources than seeking out confirming information.
[13:08] Falsifiability, the problem of induction, and deductive reasoning.
[18:03] Unfalsifiable claims may still be true. We just can’t falsify them.
[21:18] Applying disconfirming evidence and falsifiability to COVID.
[21:32] The debate over using masks to protect against COVID’s spread
[25:32] One factor complicating an analysis is that people aren’t good at assessing risk.
[28:35] Statistics are unreliable because they are difficult to measure and driven by incentives other than public health.
[35:05] As a population, we need to ask better questions and be literate in the concept of falsifiability.
Catch the full episode at Mentally Unscripted [Ep31 - Disconfirming Evidence and Falsifiability: The Two Most Powerful Mental Tools You’re Not Using]( https:// bit.ly/disconfirm)
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