Sept. 5, 2022

The Importance of Nuance, Bias, and Becoming with David McRaney

The Importance of Nuance, Bias, and Becoming with David McRaney
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David McRaney is a psychologist, journalist, and author. In this episode David and I discuss:

  • The biases that plague our thinking 
  • The importance of nuance
  • Psilocybin and the default mode network of the brain
  • Sam Harris
  • Free Will
  • First Principal Thinking
  • The Placebo Effect
  • The Fear of Social Death
  • Being yourself vs fitting in
  • Stoicism
  • The backfire effect
  • How asking for favors makes people like you more
  • Mood following action
  • Becoming

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