5636 Why Your Brain Gets Foggy!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this lecture, Stefan Molyneux explores the concept of "fog" in communication, highlighting how vague responses often stem from fear of judgment and the desire to avoid conflict. He argues that precise answers signify confidence, while ambiguity reflects insecurity and a need to navigate power dynamics. Molyneux emphasizes the importance of recognizing these patterns and advocates for transparency in communication to foster healthier interactions, urging individuals to confront societal structures that encourage evasiveness.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody. Hope you're doing well.
0:03.2	Mr. F. I'm all I knew.
0:04.7	From the free domain, so there was a question at free domain.
0:07.5	locals.com, which was...
0:09.5	What is the story with fog? Of course, when do call-in shows a lot of times I get a fog which is imprecise answers
0:18.2	evasive answers. Did you get hit a lot? Not much. Well, how much? I don't really know.
0:25.0	It wasn't too bad. You know, all of this stuff
0:28.0	where any clarity and precision
0:32.0	in the answer is studiously avoided, right?
0:35.0	So the question is sort of why does this happen?
0:39.2	Why do people do that? So precise answers are a mark of confidence and a mark of security.
0:51.0	Precise answers are a mark of confidence and of security.
0:56.0	So if you say to an engineer, you know, what is the,
0:59.5	what tensile strength if you calculated for sort of X, Y and Z, then he will say, you know, you know, it's fairly good, it's, you know, it's kind of accurate, it seems reasonable and sensible, it's, you know, in the right area it's like no you get precise
1:16.0	answers. When I had to submit my code to speed testing well the speed testing had to have precise answers and you did the
1:25.4	testing a whole bunch of times to see if you could figure out which way like how
1:29.5	accurate the results were so you needed really sort of precise answers are a mark of confidence and
1:36.4	accountability, whereas fog or evasion is a mark of low status and being punished both for lying and for
1:48.0	telling the truth. So it's really really important. This is a big big issue in
1:52.3	life. You are punished both for
1:55.8	lying and for telling the truth. Now if you're punished for lying and telling the
2:00.0	truth, then all you can do is obfuscate.
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