The Psychology Of Power & Status - David Pinsof | Modern Wisdom 668

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

Humans want things. Then we tell ourselves stories about why we want those things. And these reasons are often very flattering, but almost exclusively bullshit. We do not understand our motivations, and this is part of our brain's design. So, given this limit on introspection, is it possible to ever truly understand ourselves?

Expect to learn the difference between bullshitting and lying, why we can’t we admit that we want status, why human desires are so fickle and silly, how the modern world has hijacked our status games, why we find certain things interesting, why you actually don't want to be happy no matter how much you claim that you do and much more...

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00:00 Why is Everything Bullshit?
06:40 How to Properly Absorb Evolutionary Psychology
11:07 The Randomness of Status Games
15:21 How Social Media Has Impacted Status Games
18:00 How to Gain Status While Hiding Status Signalling
25:44 What If I’m Just Being Altruistic?
30:11 What People Misunderstand About Our Desires
35:14 Our Need to Out-Compete Our Elders
43:08 Do People Really Want to Be Happy?
52:06 Finding a Life Purpose Beyond Status-Seeking
1:01:59 Why We Find Certain Things Interesting
1:12:09 Where to Find David

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