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#980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t

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David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author.

Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake, what’s real? And if we can’t trust our own minds, or anyone else’s, what can we trust?

Expect to learn how we can use incentives more efficiently and how to look at incentives more accurately, if other-thinking and worrying is complete bullshit, why we have opinions, and if our preferences are just even more bullshit, why arguing is bullshit, why most arguments are actually pseudo arguments, why so much advice mostly bullshit and why we take it and why we give it, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Is Happiness Bulls**t?

(7:48) Incentives are Key to Human Behaviour

(12:33) Why Do We Have Opinions?

(19:36) Exposing the Status Game

(35:08) Are Opinions a Way to Test Loyalty?

(40:50) How Does Arguing Relate to Opinions?

(46:44) What’s the Difference Between an Argument and a Pseudo-Argument?

(52:43) What is a Deepity?

(01:01:14) The Differences Between Vague Bulls**t and Deep Bulls**t

(01:08:18) Find Out More About David

Extra Stuff:

Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books

Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom

Episodes You Might Enjoy:

#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp

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David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author.

Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake, what’s real? And if we can’t trust our own minds, or anyone else’s, what can we trust?

Expect to learn how we can use incentives more efficiently and how to look at incentives more accurately, if other-thinking and worrying is complete bullshit, why we have opinions, and if our preferences are just even more bullshit, why arguing is bullshit, why most arguments are actually pseudo arguments, why so much advice mostly bullshit and why we take it and why we give it, and much more…

Sponsors:

See me on tour in America: ⁠⁠https://chriswilliamson.live⁠

See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals

Get the brand new Whoop 5.0 and your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom

Get the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom

Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom

Timestamps:

(0:00) Is Happiness Bulls**t?

(7:48) Incentives are Key to Human Behaviour

(12:33) Why Do We Have Opinions?

(19:36) Exposing the Status Game

(35:08) Are Opinions a Way to Test Loyalty?

(40:50) How Does Arguing Relate to Opinions?

(46:44) What’s the Difference Between an Argument and a Pseudo-Argument?

(52:43) What is a Deepity?

(01:01:14) The Differences Between Vague Bulls**t and Deep Bulls**t

(01:08:18) Find Out More About David

Extra Stuff:

Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books

Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom

Episodes You Might Enjoy:

#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp

-

Get In Touch:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast

Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact

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