519: Dacher Keltner | The Power Paradox
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California in Berkeley, one of the world’s foremost scientists specializing in the study of power, and author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. [Note: this is a rebroadcast from the vault.]
What We Discuss with Dacher Keltner:- You don’t have to be Machiavellian to appreciate that Niccolo Machiavelli was the OG power scientist.
- What is The Power Paradox, and how does it affect us and society at large?
- The imbalance of power is the greatest threat to society (just after climate change).
- Powerlessness can literally be lethal.
- Learn how we can increase our power relative to others in a healthy way.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | We kind of demonize the leaders. |
| 0:05.2 | We think about mad men, you know, ruining the world. |
| 0:08.0 | And that in part is true. |
| 0:09.2 | You know, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, |
| 0:11.0 | were no doubt crazy individuals. |
| 0:13.0 | But we also have to think carefully about |
| 0:15.4 | social systems and the social context. |
| 0:18.0 | And you will have really strong forms of power |
| 0:22.3 | that are good for broad collectives |
| 0:25.3 | if you have ways, forms of accountability. |
| 0:28.3 | MUSIC |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
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