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ποΈ 8 January 2020
β±οΈ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Bred McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. |
0:11.4 | Have you ever been heaped with praise, only to ignore it in favor of focusing on the |
0:15.0 | lone piece of criticism you received? |
0:17.0 | That's the power that bad things wield, and it's a power that humans need to learn how |
0:20.2 | to both harness and mitigate. |
0:21.8 | My guest day lays out both sides of that coin in his book that he co-authored with psychologist |
0:25.6 | Roy Baumeister. |
0:26.6 | His name is John Tierney, and the book is the power of bad, how the negativity effect |
0:30.1 | rules us, and how we can rule it. |
0:32.1 | We begin our conversation discussing how much stronger bad is than good, and how many |
0:35.5 | good things it takes to offset a single bad one. |
0:38.0 | We then dig into the implications of the fact that bad things have a much stronger impact |
0:41.5 | than good ones, including how you really only need to be a good enough parent to your |
0:44.7 | kids. |
0:45.7 | The best way to deliver criticism to others and why religions that emphasize hell have |
0:49.0 | historically one more adherence than those that focus on heaven. |
0:51.7 | We also talk about how negativity is contagious, and why it's true that one bad apple can |
0:55.5 | spoil the whole bunch. |
0:56.7 | We inter-conversation with a look at whether or not social media is a negative force in |
1:00.1 | our lives, and John's advice on how to not let those, he calls the merchants of bad, and |
1:04.4 | the media make us think that things in the world are worse than they really are. |
1:07.8 | Lots of insights in this show on both how to use the power of bad to your advantage, |
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