#217 - Gad Saad - The Death Of Truth And How To Revive It

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Gad Saad is an Evolutionary Psychologist, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University and an author.

Bad ideas are infecting every area of society, it's time to discover how to inoculate ourselves.

Expect to learn what is the grandaddy of bad ideas, why people are so easily persuaded, whether Gad is bored of spending his time arguing on Twitter, what he thinks of Nassim Taleb, who he predicts will win the 2020 election and much more...

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome back.
0:03.6	I guess today is GAD sad.
0:05.7	Evolutionary psychologist, professor of marketing at Concordia University, an all-around
0:10.2	fascinating human.
0:11.2	I've been looking forward to this one for an awfully long time.
0:14.0	I first heard him on Rogan a few years ago and I've wanted to get him on the show ever
0:17.8	since.
0:18.8	Bad ideas are infecting every area of society, it seems at the moment.
0:23.6	And GAD's new book, The Paracetic Mind, is hopefully going to teach us how to inoculate
0:28.5	ourselves.
0:29.5	Today I expect to learn why postmodernism is the grandaddy of bad ideas, why people are
0:34.9	so easily persuaded by them, whether GAD is bored of spending his time arguing with people
0:39.8	on Twitter, what he truly thinks of Nassim Talab, who he predicts will win the 2020 election
0:45.7	and much more.
0:46.9	This is definitely a multiple listener one.
0:49.6	GAD is a true polymath pulling in information from all areas of academia.
0:54.2	So I really hope that you enjoy today.
0:56.8	In other news.
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